Quotes

“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.” Winston Churchill

“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” Winston Churchill

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” Winston Churchill

“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.” Winston Churchill

“Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.” Winston Churchill

“This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.” Winston Churchill

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

“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” Winston Churchill

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” Winston Churchill

“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.” Winston Churchill

“I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.” Winston Churchill

“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.” Winston Churchill

“I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.” Winston Churchill

“One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.” Winston Churchill

“Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.” Winston Churchill

“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.” Winston Churchill

“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.” Winston Churchill

“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.” Winston Churchill

“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” Winston Churchill

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

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

“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.” Winston Churchill

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.” Winston Churchill

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” Winston Churchill

“When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.” Winston Churchill

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.” Winston Churchill

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

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.” Winston Churchill

“If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.” Winston Churchill