As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!