Quote:
In enterprise of martial kind, When there was any fighting,
He led his regiment from behind— He found it less exciting.
Author: Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck
Categories: generals; cowardice
Attribution: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911), British librettist. Duke of Plaza-Toro, in The Gondoliers, act 1 (1889), published in The Savoy Operas (1926).
