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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

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

Glory

Providence

I cannot command winds and weather.

Horatio Nelson

Weather

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

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.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

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

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.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

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

Neutrality

England expects that every man will do his duty.

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.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

Horatio Nelson

Will

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.

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

Haste

Right