You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

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

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.