A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
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By noon it was clear that the Socialists would have a majority. At luncheon my wife said to me, ‘It may well be a blessing in disguise.’ I replied, ‘At the moment it seems quite effectively disguised.’
Winston Churchill
Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be made like this?
Winston Churchill
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Winston Churchill
I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Winston Churchill
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.
Winston Churchill
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill
If we open up a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty,and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and its Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
Winston Churchill
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Winston Churchill
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.
Winston Churchill
Never give in, never give in, -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty-- never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Winston Churchill
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty-- never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941
Winston Churchill
Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Winston Churchill
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill
Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Winston Churchill
When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.
Winston Churchill
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a sheperd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill