Winston Churchill Quotes (492 Quotes)

The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

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

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 the 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.... And if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empires beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the fight, until in Gods own time the new world in its power and might steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old.

Everyone threw the blame on me. I have noticed that they nearly always do. I suppose it is because they think I shall be able to bear it best.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Odd things animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal.

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

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained

Never, never, never give up.

I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Tell them from me they are unloading history.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

You Hitler do your worst, and we will do our best.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

As far as I can see, you have used every cliche except 'God is love' and 'Please adjust your dress before leaving'.

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!

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days these are great daysthe greatest days our country has ever lived and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

History is written by the victors.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe

I said that the world must be made safe for at least fifty years. If it was only for fifteen to twenty years then we should have betrayed our soldiers.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

All his usual formalites of perfidy were observed with scrupulous technique.

You may try to destroy all the wealth and find that all you have done is increase poverty.

Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of daily life.

Bossom What an extraordinary name. Neither one thing nor the other.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit . . . which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder'.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent because he does not know what to say.

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.

Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.