Louis Mountbatten

“To be a successful commander, you must be a showman.”

“I am the last Viceroy of India.”

“My grandfather, Prince Louis of Battenberg, was First Sea Lord in 1914. My father was First Sea Lord in 1955. I was First Sea Lord in 1959. It runs in the family.”

“My chief problem is that I am a perfectionist.”

“I had to do it. It was the only way to avoid a civil war... I had no choice.”

“What is the point of being a prince if you can't choose your own wife?”

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

“I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.”

“I claim to be a simple man, but a theatrical man.”