Churchill, Sir Winston
"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
"A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal."
"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"
"Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few"
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hourī"
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall"
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack."
"'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober."
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach."
"Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning."
"Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it."
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
"I like a man who grins when he fights."
"'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink it!"
"I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put."
"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts."
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
"There is no such thing as a good tax."
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - My Early Life
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - quoted in New York Times
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." - quoted in 'Quentin Reynolds' By Quentin Reynolds
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - quoted in Time
"The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual.'" - speech (1914)
"A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet." - speech (1927)
"India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator." - speech (1931)
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - speech (1939)
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." - speech (1940)
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." - speech (1940)
"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies." - speech (1943)
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." - speech (1944)
"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - speech (1947)
"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." - speech (1954)
"I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely, that I inspired the nation. . . . It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar." - speech (marking his 80th birthday, 1954)
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - The Story of the Malakand Field Force
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry." - While England Slept
