When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.

Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

England expects that every man will do his duty.