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Winston Churchill Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg/245px-Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg)
A British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War (World War II). He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. To date, he is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
Here are some famous quotes by Winston Churchill.
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Terminological inexactitude
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A joke is a very serious thing.
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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I am easily satisfied with the very best.
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If you are going through hell keep going.
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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The English never draw a line without blurring it.
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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
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We are all worms but I do believe I am a glow-worm.
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Never interrupt me when I'm trying to interrupt you.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
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I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
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We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
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No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.
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Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.
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When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
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He is a very modest man with a great deal to be modest about.
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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There are a lot of lies going around...and half of them are true.
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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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The maxim 'Nothing avails but perfection' may be spelled 'Paralysis.'
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We must have a better word than 'prefabricated' why not 'ready-made'?
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
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We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
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Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Pigs treat you like equals.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.
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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
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Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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However beautiful the strategy you should occasionally look at the results.
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India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.
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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
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This report by its very length defends itself against the risk of being read.
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I think 'no comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
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I may be drunk Miss but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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Success is not final failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.
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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.
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It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
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Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
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It is hard if not impossible to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.
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Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weeaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
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Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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Truth is incontrovertible ignorance can deride it panic may resent it malice may destroy it but there it is.
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Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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There is something going on in time and space and beyond time and space which whether we like it or not spells duty.
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All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
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Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.
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Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once but in politics many times.
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Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal has no heart; and any man who is over 30 and is not a conservative has no brains.
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
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The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
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Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
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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.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel or envy its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened.
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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.
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Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.
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The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world we learn we are spirits--not animals.
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When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
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We 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.
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Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
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Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.
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Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
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Why you can take the most gallant sailor the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears.
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In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
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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!
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: 'This was their finest hour.'
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The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.
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That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
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Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
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We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be we shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
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Never give in--never never never never in nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.
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We shall not flag or fail. 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 fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.