Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A joke is a very serious thing.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never Yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."

Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

... it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
people.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

[Astor:] Winston, if you were my husband I'd put poison in your tea.
[Churchill:] If I were your husband, I'd drink it.
— Nancy Astor & Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.

"I'm bored with it all." Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later. January 24, 1965

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Destiny is not a matter of CHANCE, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be achieved.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.