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

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.

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.

It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

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