Duke of Wellington Art Quotations

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

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

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.

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

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

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

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.