"If any subordinate opposes me, I will make his wife a widow, his children fatherless and his home a dunghill."

"...Jellicoe had all the Nelsonic attributes except one - he is totally wanting in the great gift of Insubordination. …"

"It is an historical fact that the British Navy stubbornly resists change."

"D-mn the Dardanelles! they'll be our grave!"

"Length of course depends on the stupidity of the class..."

"Those who rise in peace are men of formality and routine, cautious, inoffensive...Hawke represented the spirit of war…"

"I went the whole hog, totus porcus."

"thumb|O.M.G. (Oh! My God) - Letter to Winston Churchill|Churchill, 9 Sept 1917We want brave men! ANY BLOODY FOOL CAN …"

"Can the Army win the war before the Navy loses it?"

"We left our element, the sea, to make ourselves into a conscript nation fighting on the Continent with four million s…"