The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them..

The only thing I am afraid of is fear..

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse..

Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world..

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'g….

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France..

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth..

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

I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were..

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them..

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any..

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton..

Error is ever the sequence of haste..

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

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

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

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another..

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

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils..

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it..