Winston ChurchillTwo nations divided by a common language.371Reflection
Winston ChurchillThus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for … ▶371PoliticsTime
Winston ChurchillI have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.361DeathTime
Winston ChurchillDon't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash. ✨ In Sir Peter Gretton Former Naval Person (1968) ch. 1372Death
Winston ChurchillAnd you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.361Hope
Winston ChurchillI would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. ✨ Speech in House of Commons, 13 May … ▶361Politics
Winston ChurchillWhy should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? A… ▶361Humanity
Winston ChurchillSuccess is never final. ✨ San Francisco Examiner, April 5, 2008.361Love
Winston ChurchillIn war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.373Truth
Winston ChurchillScience burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions. ✨ Randolph Spencer Churchill, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1983). Winston S. Churchill: Comp… ▶362Humor
Winston ChurchillI will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism. ✨ Winston Churchill (1963). The Yankee Marlborough351Sadness
Winston ChurchillIf you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.351Hope
Winston ChurchillMeeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.373Humanity
Winston ChurchillA pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ✨ Winston S. Churchill (2013). Churchill By Himself, p.1089, Rose… ▶373Reading
Winston ChurchillSuccess consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.362Reading
Winston ChurchillNever does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.362Sadness
Winston ChurchillI am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.373Hope
Winston ChurchillThese are great days. ✨ Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941373Thought
Winston ChurchillWe see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are lin… ▶352HopePolitics
Winston ChurchillYou ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.363Humor
Winston ChurchillHow dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fata… ▶352Reading
Winston ChurchillNever run away from anything. Never!341Humanity
Winston ChurchillOne does not leave a convivial party before closing time.352Time
Winston ChurchillMr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.341Time
Winston ChurchillBaldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.352Thought
Winston ChurchillSchools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite dif… ▶374Love
Winston ChurchillYou have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring. ✨ Winston Churchi… ▶352Love
Winston ChurchillHow little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life wou… ▶352HumanityLife
Winston ChurchillPower will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight … ▶342LovePolitics
Winston ChurchillIt is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.342Love
