Winston Churchill

Quotes by Winston Churchill

Featured quote“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”Winston Churchill

Quotes by Winston Churchill

“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” Winston Churchill

Respect Nation Anything Except Covet

“The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.” Winston Churchill

Bad Old Respect

“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.” Winston Churchill

“He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” Winston Churchill

“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.” Winston Churchill

Defeat Problem Victory Wisdom Difficult Less Those Agreeable

“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.” Winston Churchill

Best Life War Work

“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.” Winston Churchill

“No crime is so great as daring to excel.” Winston Churchill

“I like a man who grins when he fights.” Winston Churchill

“Great and good are seldom the same man.” Winston Churchill

“"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.” Winston Churchill

“There is no such thing as a good tax.” Winston Churchill

“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.” Winston Churchill

Funny Discussion Monkey Organ Grinder

“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” Winston Churchill

“My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.” Winston Churchill

“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.” Winston Churchill

Politics Time War

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.” Winston Churchill

Funny Satisfaction Fun

“Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.” Winston Churchill

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” Winston Churchill

Greatest Health Wisdom Country Citizens

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill

Knowledge Law Respect Regulations Destroy

“A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.” Winston Churchill

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” Winston Churchill

“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.” Winston Churchill

“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.” Winston Churchill

Wise Difficult Ahead

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” Winston Churchill

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” Winston Churchill

“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.” Winston Churchill

Politics Wisdom Business

“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.” Winston Churchill

“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” Winston Churchill

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

Future Lost Past