DODuke Of Wellington

11 collected words

Duke Of Wellington

Life dates: 1769 AD — 1852 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1810 AD

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

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02c. 1810 AD

It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

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03c. 1810 AD

Circumstances over which I have no control.

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04c. 1810 AD

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

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05c. 1810 AD

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

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06c. 1810 AD

Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

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07c. 1810 AD

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill, or, in other words, in learning what we do not know from what we do.

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08c. 1810 AD

Call on a business man at business times only and on business transact your business and go about your business in order to give him time to finish his busmess.

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09c. 1810 AD

I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy but by God they frighten me.

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10c. 1810 AD

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

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11c. 1810 AD

When my journal appears many statues must come down.

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