Quote

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.

Horatio Nelson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horatio Nelson
Age: 47 †
Born: 1758
Born: September 29
Died: 1805
Died: October 21
Admiral
Naval Officer
Politician
Burnham Thorpe
Norfolk
Horatio Nelson
1st Viscount Nelson
Horatio
Viscount Nelson Nelson
Lord Nelson
Viscount Horatio Nelson Nelson
Horatio
Viscount Nelson
Horatio Nelson
Viscount Nelson
Admiral Lord Nelson
Admiral Nelson
Nelson
Admiral Horatio Nelson
1st and last Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe
Horatio
Lord Nelson
Able
Eleventh
Wells
Sails
Well
Sail
Done
Escape
Never
Ten
Military
Called
Taken

More quotes by Horatio Nelson

Image
When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.
Horatio Nelson
Image
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
Image
Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
Horatio Nelson
Image
Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.
Horatio Nelson
Image
My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.
Horatio Nelson
Image
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
Horatio Nelson
Image
England expects that every man will do his duty.
Horatio Nelson
Image
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Horatio Nelson
Image
The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.
Horatio Nelson
Image
Something must be left to chance nothing is certain in a sea fight
Horatio Nelson
Image
Time is everything five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
Horatio Nelson
Image
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
Image
Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.
Horatio Nelson
Image
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.
Horatio Nelson
Image
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson
Image
Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.
Horatio Nelson
Image
The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle but he dreads disgrace yet more.
Horatio Nelson
Image
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson
Image
I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.
Horatio Nelson
Image
Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.
Horatio Nelson