Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards."

Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.