Winston S. Churchill

Quotes

• “If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the firs...”
• “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the...”
• “Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes ...”
• “Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; tha...”
• “Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for ...”
• “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,...”
• “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
• “Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
• “This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.”
• “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
• “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
• “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
• “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
• “It's no use saying, "We are doing our best."You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
• “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
• “For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
• “Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
• “It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.”
• “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
• “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
• “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
• “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
• “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
• “This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”
• “All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.”
• “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
• “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
• “When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”
• “When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
• “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
• “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
• “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
• “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
• “Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
• “The price of greatness is responsibility.”
• “I'm bored with it all. - Last Words”
• “A joke is a very serious thing.”
• “Never, never, never give in!”