It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

Yes, about ten minutes.

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

It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.