Winston Churchill Quotes

Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

No one should waste a day.

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

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

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.

It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

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

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it

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.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.