Winston Churchill Quotes

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

If you find a job you love, you'll never work again.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them

When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.

When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

A sheep in sheep's clothing.

Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

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

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.