Winston Churchill Quotes

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter... view

By: Winston Churchill

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham... view

By: Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up... view

By: Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last... view

By: Winston Churchill

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement... view

By: Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won... view

By: Winston Churchill

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting... view

By: Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside... view

By: Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only inaction... view

By: Winston Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly... view

By: Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights... view

By: Winston Churchill

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

By: Winston Churchill

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

By: Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words... view

By: Winston Churchill

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk... view

By: Winston Churchill

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

By: Winston Churchill

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

By: Winston Churchill

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times... view

By: Winston Churchill

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

By: Winston Churchill

I am easily satisfied with the very best... view

By: Winston Churchill

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

By: Winston Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else... view

By: Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught... view

By: 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... view

By: Winston Churchill

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

By: Winston Churchill

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

By: Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it... view

By: 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... view

By: Winston Churchill

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened... view

By: Winston Churchill

To improve is to change.. view

By: Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war... view

By: Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent... view

By: Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information... view

By: Winston Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be.. view

By: 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... view

By: Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders... view

By: Winston Churchill

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm... view

By: Winston Churchill

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

By: Winston Churchill

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out... view

By: Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty... view

By: Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect... view

By: Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day... view

By: Winston Churchill