More - Horatio Nelson Quotes

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

Horatio Nelson

 British Soldier Defeat

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Horatio Nelson

 British Soldier Duty

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

Horatio Nelson

 British Soldier Gentlemen

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

Horatio Nelson

 British Soldier

Kiss me Hardy

Horatio Nelson

 

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

Horatio Nelson

 

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

Horatio Nelson

 

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.

Horatio Nelson

 British Soldier

[Nelson had decided well in advance of Trafalgar that he would abandon classic tactics and attack the horizontal French and Spanish line in two vertical columns, unleashing maximum chaos, his preferred environment. After that, it was every ship for itself.] I think it will surprise and confound the enemy, ... They won't know what I am about. It will bring forward a pell-mell battle, and that is what I want.

Horatio Nelson

 

I owe all my success in life to having always been a quarter of an hour beforehand

Horatio Nelson

 Life