Quotes By Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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

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

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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

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

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

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

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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

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.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

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

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

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

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

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.