“The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton”
Arthur Wellesley
“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.”
George Orwell
“Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.”
Cyril Connolly
“Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second”
Victor Hugo
“When she left, we didn't want her to leave Waterloo, we tried our best to keep her here.”
Mike Allen
“A few years ago it was considered chic to serve Beef Wellington; fortunately, like Napoleon, it met its Waterloo.”
Rene Veaux
“Waterloo has had our number. We needed to make a stop and we did.”
Mike Hastings
