No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. Field Marshal Archibald Wavell
After the ‘war to end war’ they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a ‘Peace to end Peace.’ Field Marshal Archibald Wavell (on peace treaties following thr end of the First World War)
I think he must do something, if he cannot make a graceful dive he will at least have to jump in somehow; he can hardly put on his dressing-gown and walk down the stairs again. Field Marshal Archibald Wavell (on Mussolini).
The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them. Archibald Wavell
A bold general may be lucky, but no general can be lucky unless he is bold. Field Marshal Archibald Wavell