Quotes of Horatio Nelson - somelinesforyou

“ Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. ”

- Horatio Nelson

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

- Horatio Nelson

“ I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes… I really do not see the signal! ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ 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. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ 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. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ 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. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes… I really do not see the signal! ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes… I really do not see the signal! ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ 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. ”

- Horatio Nelson

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

- Horatio Nelson

“ Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey. ”

- Horatio Nelson

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

- Horatio Nelson

“ If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ Desperate affairs require desperate remedies. ”

- Horatio Nelson

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

- Horatio Nelson

“ 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. ”

- Horatio Nelson

“ My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. ”

- Horatio Nelson
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