Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can..

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must..

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound.

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

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

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

Error is ever the sequence of haste..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only thing I am afraid of is fear..

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

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….

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