I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.

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.

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

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.