Winston Churchill Quotes

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

No sky is heavy if the heart be light

These are great days.

The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

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

The true guide of life is to do what is right.

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

'Keep England White' is a good slogan.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

Science should be on tap, not on top.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Do what you like, but like what you do.

Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.