My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
- Horatio Nelson
Country, Alive, Offending, Envious
Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
- Horatio Nelson
Trust, Doing, More, Events
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
- Horatio Nelson
Devil, Own, Every Man, Regarding
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
- Horatio Nelson
Break, Made, Allowed, Whence
It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.
- Horatio Nelson
Work, Last, May, Copenhagen
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
- Horatio Nelson
Death, Keeping, Envied, Dreadful
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
- Horatio Nelson
Sure, Direct, Am, Wherever
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
- Horatio Nelson
Eye, Blind, See, Signal
England expects that every man will do his duty.
- Horatio Nelson
England, Will, His, Expects
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
- Horatio Nelson
Sense Of Humor, Sense, Could, Tread
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
- Horatio Nelson
Tell, Sooner, Right Arm, Arm
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
- Horatio Nelson
Desperate, Measures, Require, Affairs
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
Ship, Been, Peers, Every Time
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
- Horatio Nelson
Victory, Defeat, Minutes, Between
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
- Horatio Nelson
Mistake, Veterans Day, Too, Gentlemen
I cannot command winds and weather.
- Horatio Nelson
Weather, Winds, Cannot, Command
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
- Horatio Nelson
Country, Will, Sooner, Attacking
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
- Horatio Nelson
Fancy, Year, Fleet, Port
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
- Horatio Nelson
Die, Will, Honour, Gained
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
- Horatio Nelson
Give, Private, However, Painful
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
- Horatio Nelson
Places, Very, His, Wrong
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
Hands, Own, Against, Opinion
When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.
- Horatio Nelson
More, My Own, Correct, Opinion
Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
- Horatio Nelson
Treat, Devil, Himself, Frenchman
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
- Horatio Nelson
Best, Victory, Use, First
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