Capital accounting in its formally most rational shape†presupposes the battle of man with man.

-Weber, Max
  Collected in Guenther Roth and ClausWittich (eds) Economy and Society (1978), ch.1.

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

-Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
  Of the Battle of Waterloo. Comment to Lady Shelley, Jul. Quoted in Richard Edgecumbe (ed) The Diary of Frances, Lady Shelley (1912), vol.1, ch.9, p.102.

The history of a battle is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost; but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference.

-Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
  Of the Battle of Waterloo. Letter, 8 Aug.

The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

-Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
Attributed, and probably apocryphal. Quoted in Count Charles de Montalembert De l'Avenir politique de l'Angleterre (1856), ch.10:'C'est ici qu'a e¤  te¤   gagne¤   la bataille deWaterloo'.

   A strange manner of battle, where one side works by constant motion and ceaseless charges, while the other can but endure passivelyas it standsfixed tothesod.The Norman arrow and sword worked on: in the English ranks the only movement was the dropping of the dead: the living stood motionless.

-William of Poitiers   11c.
c.1071 Of theBattle of Hastings,14 Oct1066. Gesta Guillelmi ducis Normannorum et regis Anglorum (edited by R Foreville,1952).

L'expe¤  rience†d'une femme e¤  crivain est comple'  tement schizophre¤  nique. Il faut toujours faire coupure entre les deux: d'une part, employer un langage qui n'est pas le no" t re†et la lutte qu'on me'  ne sur un autre plan, qui tend 'a casser tout  c° a, a'   essayer de faire a'   travers et dans le langage autre chose. The experience†of the woman writer is completely schizophrenic.One is always torn between two approaches: on the one hand, to use a language that is not ours†and on the other, the battle one fights to break all this up, in order to do something else through and in language.

-Wittig, Monique
Quoted inJean-Fran c° ois Josselin'Lettre   a' Sapho' in Le Nouvel Observateur (1973).