I have a right to be blind sometimes.

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.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

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.