Arthur Wellesley, 1. książę Wellington cytaty

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cytat przypisywany, wypowiedziany ponoć, gdy oddziały brytyjskie zostały zdziesiątkowane w trakcie bitwy pod Waterloo; w języku angielskim zdanie to jest najczęściej cytowane w formie „Podaruj mi noc albo ześlij mi Blüchera” (Give me the night or give me Blücher!).
Źródło: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, tłum. Anna Wziątek, Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 2009, ISBN 9788324587339, s. 199.

o Jerzym IV i Wilhelmie IV.
Źródło: Grzegorz Jaszuński, Ostatni monarchowie, wyd. Czytelnik, Warszawa 1975, s. 21.

o generale Johnie Moore – słowa z 1809 dotyczące jego udziału w bitwie pod La Coruñą.
Źródło: Nigel Cawthorne, Dowódcy i generałowie. Prawdziwe historie, Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warszawa 2014, s. 108

Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. (ang.) <br class="br">po bitwie pod Waterloo w 1815. <br class="br">Źródło: Edward Shepherd Creasy, Decisive Battles of the World, 1899, tłum. cyt. za: historia-powszechna.pl http://www.historia-powszechna.yoyo.pl/cytaty/n.php?n=1353

o bitwie pod Waterloo.
Źródło: Helge Hesse, W 80 powiedzeń dookoła świata, op. cit., s. 199.

As quoted in Genetic Studies in Joyce (1995) by David Hayman and Sam Slote. Though such remarks have often been quoted as Wellington&#x27;s response on being called Irish, the earliest published sources yet found for similar comments are those about him attributed to an Irish politician: <br class="br">The poor old Duke! 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. <br class="br">Daniel O&#x27;Connell, in a speech (16 October 1843), as quoted in Shaw&#x27;s Authenticated Report of the Irish State Trials (1844), p. 93 http://books.google.com/books?id=dpKbWonMghwC&amp;pg=PA93&amp;dq=%22+make+a+man+a+horse%22&amp;num=100&amp;ei=0YVZSIWXCIiSjgG37bGIDA <br class="br">No, he is not an Irishman. He was born in Ireland; but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse. <br class="br">Daniel O&#x27;Connell during a speech (16 October 1843), as quoted in Reports of State Trials: New Series Volume V, 1843 to 1844 (1893) &quot;The Queen Against O&#x27;Connell and Others&quot;, p. 206 http://books.google.com/books?id=zWETAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PT108&amp;dq=%22+make+a+man+a+horse%22&amp;num=100&amp;ei=MohZSJ-PK4a4jgG-lLGJDA <br class="br">Variants: If a man be born in a stable, that does not make him a horse. <br class="br">Quoted as as an anonymous proverb in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899), p. 171 <br class="br">Because a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse. <br class="br">Quoted as a dubious statement perhaps made early in his career in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (1992) edited by John Simpson and Jennifer Speake, p. 162. <br class="br">Misattributed

On the coming of the railways, in The Birth of the Modern (1991), by Paul Johnson. p. 993.

Said to be his remarks on a draft of new troops sent to him in Spain (1809), as quoted in A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1942) by H. L. Mencken, this quote is disputed, and may be derived from a comment made to Colonel Robert Torrens about some of his generals in a despatch (29 August 1810): "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."
Disputed

Exchange said to have occurred at the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815), after Lord Uxbridge lost his leg to a cannonball; as quoted in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
Variant account:
Uxbridge: I have lost my leg, by God!
Wellington: By God, and have you!
Thomas Hardy, in The Dynasts, Pt. III Act VII, scene viii, portraying the incident.

Phrase said to have first been used by Wellington, as quoted in notes for 18 September 1836 <br class="br">I hope you will not think I am deficient in feeling toward you, or that I am wanting in desire to serve you, because the results of my attempts have failed, owing to circumstances over which I have no control. <br class="br">As quoted in The Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope (1914) http://www.archive.org/details/lifelettersoflad00clevuoft edited by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland <br class="br">Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1886)

Queen Victoria, concerned about the sparrows that had nested in the roof of the partly finished Crystal Palace, asked Wellington&#x27;s advice as to how to get rid of them. Wellington’s reply was succinct and to the point, Sparrow-hawks, Ma&#x27;am. He was right, by the time the Crystal Palace was opened by the Queen in 1851, they had all gone! <br class="br">Źródło: Historic UK http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Duke-of-Wellington/

Wellington's retort when he was asked if he felt honored at being feted as a hero by the people of Brussels after returning victorious from Waterloo, according to Sir John Keegan's chapter on Wellington in his book The Mask of Command

Letter to John Wilson Croker (29 December 1835), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830, Vol. II (1884), p. 288

Letter to John Wilson Croker (30 September 1833), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830, Vol. II (1884), p. 218

Remarks to John Wilson Croker (20 October 1825), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830, Vol. I (1884), p. 353

Letter from the field of Waterloo (June 1815), as quoted in Decisive Battles of the World (1899) by Edward Shepherd Creasy. Quoted too in Memorable Battles in English History: Where Fought, why Fought, and Their Results; with the Military Lives of the Commanders by William Henry Davenport Adams; Editor Griffith and Farran, 1863. p. 400.

Źródło: About the French attacks at the Battle of Waterloo, quoted in Roberts, Andrew (2010); Napoleon and Wellington; Hachette, UK; ISBN 0297865269.

Statement (1838), quoted in John Morley, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. I (1903), p. 155