Quotes By Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Never, never, never give up.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

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

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.

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

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.

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.