There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

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'.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.