Quote #12
I have only one eye,- I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!
More from Horatio Nelson
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 m…
- 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…
- I am myself a Norfolk man.
- Victory or Westminister Abbey.
- The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had.
- In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.