Winston Churchill Quotes

Patience is sorrow's salve.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

If you are going through hell just keep going

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Writing is an adventure.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.