Winston S. Churchill Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Winston S. Churchill
Winston S. Churchill Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. When I am in the Socratic
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over thirty who is not a conservative has no brains.
People stumble over the truth from time to time,
but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
(Winston Churchill)
(Winston Churchill)
Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.
You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head.
I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.