LAST WORDS XIII
From Reader's Digest

The hostess apologized to the Duke of Wellington, the hero of Waterloo, for the rude behavior of French officers who had turned their backs on him when he entered the party. His reply? "I have seen their backs before."
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Prior to World War I, German emperor Wilhelm II bragged to Dutch queen Wilhelmina that his guardsmen were seven feet tall. The queen, reading the threat between the lines, answered, "But when we open our dikes, the waters are ten feet deep."