Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."
Winston ChurchillI have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.
Winston ChurchillI remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as โThe Boneless Wonderโ. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
Winston ChurchillI am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston ChurchillPolitics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.
Winston Churchill