When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.