Horatio Nelson

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

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No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

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Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

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Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

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Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

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Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

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Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

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It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

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Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

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I cannot command winds and weather.

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Quotes by Horatio Nelson