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.

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.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

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.

Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.