You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of t...
This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render...
Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech...
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.
I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of t...
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.
If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hand...
Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.
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