Quotes & Sayings About Wellington

Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, the warm wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, the hulk of a charred Panzer, the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl, cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot. — Stephen Fry

The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse. — Daniel O'Connell

If somebody wants to be your enemy, there's only one thing you can do. You give them exactly what they want. It confuses them and makes them wonder what you're up to. — David Wellington

I have heard it said that if you stay in one place long enough, the whole world would eventually pass by you. I'm not sure if I buy that, but if you have four miles to walk to a lake, while stuck behind a bunch of teenage girls, you will hear quite enough gossip about the place you are in, not to mention the people who reside there, to make that world quite interesting. I have already learned quite enough about Reed Wellington, my beautiful sophomore guide with a penchant for rudeness. — Amy A. Bartol

Do we have a plan?" she asked.
"Yes," he told her. "Shoot everything that moves. — David Wellington

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion. — Duke Of Wellington

What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! — Duke Of Wellington

She sighed heavily before whispering, "I'm still a bit confused as to what we are waiting for." "We are waiting for one of the constants in our world, Miss Braun," Wellington assured her. "At the end of every opera, there is the grand finale, where the music continues its gradual crescendo, the tenor and tempo rising ever so gradually for that pinnacle of dramatic tension, that moment of anticipation - " "Welly, are you talking about opera or about sex?" His next words caught in his throat. For a woman of higher tastes and seeming refinement, this woman could be utterly crass. — Philippa Ballantine

The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.. — Duke Of Wellington

Mrs. Wellington was wearing a voluminous flannel nightgown when she answered the door. Hamish was glad Mr. Wellington had found God, because it certainly looked as if he would need to wait until he got to heaven to get his reward. — M.C. Beaton

When Wellington Mara died in 2005, he took a piece of the organization's soul with him - one that fans, players, and staff still miss. — Dave Buscema

Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons. — Chrissie Wellington

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to. — Mario Batali

She groaned as her face turned to press against the rosewood floor. "Welly, remind me to order a better mattress for my bed. This one is far too firm."
"Oh, Eliza," Wellington gasped, now remembering why he was in these lush surroundings. "No broken nose, I hope."
"S'all right," Braun slurred. Her voiced dropped to a whisper. "My ample bosom broke my fall. — Philippa Ballantine

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. — Bob Balaban

If we let our head drop, our heart drops with it. Keep your head up, and your body is capable of amazing feats. — Chrissie Wellington

If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling's whole life would have been entirely different. She would have gone, with the rest of her clan, to Aunt Wellington's engagement picnic and Dr. Trent would have gone to Montreal. But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it. — L.M. Montgomery

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff. — Duke Of Wellington

It's nice to see arrogance humbled. — Wellington Mara

We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing. — Chrissie Wellington

He looked right into her and then he said, "In a second I'm going to ask you if you're okay. Your answer is extremely important. If you can keep fighting, or at least keep running, you have to say 'yes'. Otherwise we have to run away and let them win this one. Now. Are you okay? — David Wellington

Twenty two year old Connie Jones, who had boarded in the home of charismatic Methodist and pacifist Ormond Burton, was a member of the No More War movement and the Christian Pacifist Society. She first attended the Friday night public meetings at which the pacifists argued their case in 1941. She stepped onto the podium, stating, "the Lord Jesus Christ tells us to love one another," and was promptly arrested by Wellington's chief inspector of police. Charged with obstruction under the Emergency Regulations, she was sentenced to three months' hard labour with harsh conditions at the Point Halswell Reformatory - an experience that did nothing to dampen her commitment to pacifism. — Barbara Brookes

Never, ever give up. And smile — Chrissie Wellington

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. — Duke Of Wellington

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast. — Duke Of Wellington

Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero. — Duke Of Wellington

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. — Duke Of Wellington

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink. — Duke Of Wellington

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France. — Duke Of Wellington

Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me. — Duke Of Wellington

He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy. — James Joyce

My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day. — Duke Of Wellington

Good God. She was Wellington with eyelashes. — Julie Anne Long

There are those among us who find monsters quite attractive, Vesta said. — David Wellington

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

The key is not to be afraid of failing. — Chrissie Wellington

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father. — Frank Gifford

I run to feel complete, to feel alive, to feel happy, and to feel free. I run to visit beautiful places, to overcome my fears, and to remind myself - and others - that our limits may not be where we think they are. — Chrissie Wellington

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. — Duke Of Wellington

Caxton crawled into the back while Arkeley took the front passenger seat. His fused vertebrae trumped her sprained ribs, he announced. — David Wellington

Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!! — Napoleon Bonaparte

If Lady Brentmor told the prime minister to jump off a bridge," Fiona had once remarked, "Wellington would meekly ask, 'Which one? — Loretta Chase

To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly. — Chrissie Wellington

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up. — Duke Of Wellington

The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters. — Chrissie Wellington

While i may have been strong, i was not particularly goat like. — Chrissie Wellington

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms. — Robert A. Heinlein

I found the second story that I'd ever written, 20 years ago in Wellington. It was written in the third person, the person most girls use when they want to talk about themselves but don't think anyone will listen. — Chris Kraus

Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are. — Chrissie Wellington

I will not negotiate with the undead! — David Wellington

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound — Duke Of Wellington

Hey." He glanced away from her, instead looking down at the coffin. He looked back at her and raised his eyebrows. "Want a peek? — David Wellington

Do I pray for her life or mine? They're one in the same ... Be this soul in Thine hands ... I stop, unable to pray for her ascension. I cannot let her go, I think in agony. I try again, May this soul in Thine hands be with me ... always. — Amy A. Bartol

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, Remember men, you are Portuguese! — Duke Of Wellington

When things are tough, you get tougher. — Chrissie Wellington

A great country cannot wage a little war. — Duke Of Wellington

My pleasure. Listen," he called after her, "this is as far as I can go. They poisoned the water out there and I can't follow you now. If you do see Powell, will you give him a message for me?"
"Sure," she said, turning around. "Tell him I have his boots in my truck. In case he's looking for 'em."
Chey smiled. It felt wrong on her face, but she liked it all the same. "I'll do that. — David Wellington

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must. — Duke Of Wellington

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. — John Keegan

You have a wife?" Caxton demanded.
"I killed a vampire twenty years ago, and another one last night. I had to keep myself busy in the meantime," he told her. — David Wellington

...Life is nothing but a habit. Get to work. — Chrissie Wellington

Your mother is holding your hand too tightly. You whimper and cling to her dress, because you know what will happen next. She stares at you, as if she's forgotten how to blink. There's one last glimpse of her face before she bundles you into the cupboard under the stairs. 'Don't make a sound,' she hisses, 'don't even breathe.' Darkness smothers you as the key twists in the lock. There's a chance that he won't find you, cowering on the floor, between the broom and floor mops, a stack of wellington boots. — Kate Rhodes

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions. — Arthur M. Wellington

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest. — Duke Of Wellington

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners. — Duke Of Wellington

You know where the word shrapnel comes from?" "Where?" "An eighteenth-century British guy named Henry Shrapnel." "Really?" "He was a captain in their artillery for eight years. Then he invented an exploding shell, and they promoted him to major. The Duke of Wellington used the shell in the Peninsular Wars, and at the Battle of Waterloo. — Lee Child

I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself — Duke Of Wellington

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer. — Duke Of Wellington

I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others. — Duke Of Wellington

As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal. — Duke Of Wellington

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry. — Duke Of Wellington

My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington. — Tom Bennett

Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because of God. — Victor Hugo

I had to make the most of it; I had to make the most of me. There could be no slack, anywhere, not in my time, not in my head, not across my skin. If there were any, the guilt wouldn't bear thinking about. — Chrissie Wellington

I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive. — Chrissie Wellington

Wow. So what was the vampire like?" "Pale. Big. Toothy," the trooper answered. — David Wellington

Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes. — J.L. Austin

In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper. — Wellington Mara

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory
except a great defeat. — Duke Of Wellington

Great triumphs of engineering genius - the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail - ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Arthur Mellen Wellington

I'm a warrior and a fighter, I race fair and I race clean. — Chrissie Wellington

A great country can have no such thing as a little war. — Duke Of Wellington

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time. — Napoleon Bonaparte

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.' — Duke Of Wellington

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were. — Duke Of Wellington

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century. — Wellington Mara

Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster. — David Wellington

One of the women took his arm and smiled into his face until he looked at her. "We're going to dance in the woods later, when the moon comes up. You'll have to join us, of course," she said. She batted her eyelashes and added, "It's a full moon, so we'll go skyclad."
Simon frowned, trying to work out what she was saying. "Naked, you mean." His mouth fluttered as if he was trying to decide whether to grin sheepishly or lasciviously. — David Wellington

Tomorrow at seven o'clock a strange phenomenon will occur: the earth is going to sit on the moon. This has also been written about by the noted English chemist Wellington. I confess, I felt troubled at heart when I pictured to myself the extraordinary delicacy and fragility of the moon. For the moon is usually made in Hamburg, and made quite poorly. I'm surprised England doesn't pay attention to this. It's made by a lame cooper, and one can see that the fool understands nothing about the moon. He used tarred rope and a quantity of cheap olive oil, and that's why there's a terrible stench all over the earth, so that you have to hold your nose. And that's why the moon itself is such a delicate sphere that people can't live on it, and now only noses live there. And for the same reason, we can't see our own noses, for they're all in the moon. — Nikolai Gogol

The scum of the earth ... but what fine soldiers we have made them. — Duke Of Wellington

Error is ever the sequence of haste. — Duke Of Wellington

I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend. — Frank Gifford

Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never would. — Susanna Clarke

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business. — Duke Of Wellington

Oman's book Wellington's Army is 400 pages in length but just a single page is devoted to the artillery with the opening, 'only a short note is required as to Wellington's use of artillery'. Historians ever since — Nick Lipscombe

Yes, about ten minutes. — Duke Of Wellington

It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all. — Chrissie Wellington

An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two. — Arthur Mellen Wellington

I try to paint from life, but I had such a miserable experience with Bonaparte, who wouldn't sit still and kept mumbling about catching a cold and something incoherent about Wellington , so I finally decided to work from photos. — Roman Genn