Winston Churchill Quotes

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

All babies look like me. But then, I look like all babies.

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

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

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

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

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

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

Sunshine is my quest.

Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.