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

- Arthur Wellesley

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

- Arthur Wellesley

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

- Arthur Wellesley

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

- Arthur Wellesley

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

- Arthur Wellesley

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

- Arthur Wellesley

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

- Arthur Wellesley

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

- Arthur Wellesley

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

- Arthur Wellesley

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

- Arthur Wellesley

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

- Arthur Wellesley

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

- Arthur Wellesley

Publish and be damned.

- Arthur Wellesley

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

- Arthur Wellesley

When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.

- Arthur Wellesley

Habit is ten times nature.

- Arthur Wellesley