The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.
Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.
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'.
My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.