Winston S. Churchill Quotes

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Never, never, never give in!

If you are going through hell, keep going

I'm bored with it all. - Last Words

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.

It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will.

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

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

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.

Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.

If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

when you're going through hell, keep going.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.