Quotes By Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

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

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

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

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

A joke is a very serious thing.

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.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

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

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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.

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

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

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

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

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

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

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.