Quotes by : Horatio Nelson

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

But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood no captain can do very wrong if he....

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know....

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

Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.

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

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

Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his....