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.

Habit is ten times nature.

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

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

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.