Famous Quotes

Quotes by Winston Churchill

• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
• A joke is a very serious thing.
• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
• A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
• All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
• Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
• Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
• For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
• For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
• Great and good are seldom the same man.
• Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
• History is written by the victors.
• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
• I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
• I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
• I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
• I am easily satisfied with the very best.
• I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
• I 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.
• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
• I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
• If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
• 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.
• If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
• If you're going through hell, keep going.
• In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
• In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
• In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
• In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
• It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
• It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
• It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
• It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.