Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Quotes

• Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

• Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.

• Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears.

• If you are going through hell, keep going.

• I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

• 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.

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

• Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

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

• The price of greatness is responsibility.

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

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

• Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

• Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

• It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

• Never interrupt me when I'm trying to interrupt you.

• Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Pigs treat you like equals.

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