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

More Quotes by Duke of Wellington

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

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

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

Habit is ten times nature.

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

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