List of Horatio Nelson Quotes

Laurels Grow In The Bay Of Biscay, I Hope A Bed Of Them May Be Found In The Mediterranean.

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.

Whoever Gains The Palm By Merit, Let Him Hold It.

It Is My Turn Now; And If I Come Back, It Is Yours.

The Business Of The English Commander-in-chief Being First To Bring An Enemy Fleet To Battle On The Most Advantageous Terms To Himself, (i Mean That Of Laying His Ships Close On Board The Enemy, As Expeditiously As Possible); And Secondly To Continue Them There Until The Business Is Decided.

Had We Taken Ten Sails, And Let The Eleventh To Escape, Being Able To Get At Her, I Could Never Have Called It Well Done.

I Have A Right To Be Blind Sometimes.

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.

My Greatest Happiness Is To Serve My Gracious King And Country And I Am Envious Only Of Glory; For If It Be A Sin To Covet Glory I Am The Most Offending Soul Alive.

Treat Every Frenchman As If He Was The Devil Himself.

Something Must Be Left To Chance; Nothing Is Certain In A Sea Fight

Thank God I Have Done My Duty.