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.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

England expects every man to do his duty

I cannot command winds and weather.

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

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

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