Quotes By Winston Churchill

Date of Birth: November 30, 1874    Date of Death: January 24, 1965

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wfe to marry me.  ~ Winston Churchill


If you're going through hell, keep going.  ~ Winston Churchill


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


Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.  ~ Winston Churchill


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


A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.  ~ Winston Churchill


For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.  ~ Winston Churchill


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


It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.  ~ Winston Churchill


If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.  ~ Winston S. Churchill


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


There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction  ~ Winston Churchill


A man is about as big as the things that make him angry  ~ Winston Churchill


I am an optimist.  It does not seem too much use being anything else.  ~ Winston Churchill


War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.  ~ Winston Churchill


You have enemies?  Good.  That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.  ~ Winston Churchill


Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.  ~ Winston Churchill


A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.  ~ Winston Churchill


Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.  ~ Winston Churchill


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, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.  ~ Winston Churchill


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


Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.  ~ Winston Churchill


Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.  ~ Winston Churchill


Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.  ~ Winston Churchill


Never, never, never give in!  ~ Winston Churchill


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


My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.  ~ Winston Churchill


Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.  ~ Winston Churchill


A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.  ~ Winston Churchill


History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.  ~ Winston Churchill


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


The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.  ~ Winston S. Churchill


The most important thing about education is appetite.  ~ Winston Churchill


For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.  ~ Winston Churchill


How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.  ~ Winston Churchill


It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as folly.  ~ Winston Churchill


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


We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.  ~ Winston Churchill


Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.  ~ Winston Churchill


Smoking cigars is like falling in love; first you are attracted to its shape; you stay with it for its flavour; and you must always remember never, never let the flame go out.  ~ Winston Churchill


There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. ~ 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