England expects every man to do his duty
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.
A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.
Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.
I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.