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Feldherr, Premierminister 1828 - 1830 (England, 1769 - 1852).

Herzog Arthur Wellesly von Wellington · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Herzog Arthur Wellesly von Wellington wäre heute 255 Jahre, 0 Monate, 0 Tage oder 93.137 Tage alt.

Geboren am 29.04.1769 in Dublin
Gestorben am 14.09.1852 in Walmer Castle (Kent)
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• Das größte Unglück ist eine verlorene Schlacht, das zweitgrößte eine gewonnene.
  • Unglück

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• Der Beginn von Reformen ist der Beginn der Revolution.
  • Revolution

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• Erfahrung ist die Summe der Fehler, die man gemacht hat.
  • Engagement
  • Fehler
  • Erfahrung(en)

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• Ich mißtraue jedem Urteil, das in einer Angelegenheit gefällt wird, welche die Interessen des Urteilenden berührt.
  • Interesse

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• Nichts außer einer verlorenen Schlacht kann halb so melancholisch stimmen wie eine gewonnene Schlacht.

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• All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guessing what was at the other side of the hill'.

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• 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.'

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• Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.

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• I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

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• I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

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• I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

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• I used to say of him [Napoleon] that his presence on the field madethe difference of forty thousand men.

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• If you believe that, you'll believe anything.

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• Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

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• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

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• Ours [our army] is composed of the scum of the earth-the mere scum of the earth.

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• Possible? Is anything impossible? Read the newspapers.

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• Publish and be damned.

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• The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

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• The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

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