Quotes By Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.