Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852The quotations of
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834
1769–1852
6 quotes, most often on War & Peace.
There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
Reply to William Huskisson, who said his letter offering to resign had been a mistake- Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 3 Nov 1831
- When asked what he thought of the first Reformed Parliament (1832), as quoted in Words on Wellington (1889) by Sir William Fraser, p. 12
- Remark to John Wilson Croker (4 September 1852), in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers
- Postscript to a letter to his brother Henry Wellesley (22 May 1814)
It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.
Remark to Thomas Creevey after the Battle of Waterloo (June 1815), in The Creevey Papers (1903); “nice” here means “delicately balanced”
