I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.
Winston ChurchillIt may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
Winston ChurchillEveryone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
Winston ChurchillToday I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.
Winston ChurchillOne is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.
Winston Churchill