Quotes By Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

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.

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.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

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.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

History is written by the victors.

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.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

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

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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

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

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

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