Quote #3
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
More from Horatio Nelson
- Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
- 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 s…
- Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you…
- First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
- Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.
- 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…
- The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had.
- I am myself a Norfolk man.