Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Quotes

• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

• I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

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

• 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.

• I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

• He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

• The price of greatness is responsibility.

• When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

• I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

• It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

• When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

• There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

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