I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
Error is ever the sequence of haste.
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.