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


Winston S. Churchill

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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is nothing so exhilarating as to be shot at and missed.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.
ROBERT FISK Be bold - there's enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying o...
MATT BEVIN I'm the American Winston Churchill.
MICHAEL MORIARTY Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
IAN BOTHAM Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Success in life is determined by your ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusia...
WINSTON CHURCHILL What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.
MICHAEL HOWARD Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquoi...
RACHEL BLANCHARD Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.
GEORGE ORWELL A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, ...
TIM O'REILLY I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I h...
BORIS JOHNSON I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.
MAURICE DRUON Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Win...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred t...
MAC THORNBERRY The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend...
LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend ...
LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchil...
ALEXANDER HAIG Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.
ANONYMOUS 'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mr...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises...
ARTHUR BALFOUR I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchi...
MARGARET THATCHER To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of pre...
RONALD REAGAN (Exchange with Winston Churchill)
Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like...
NANCY ASTOR THE VISCOUNTESS ASTOR Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, withou...
BLAISE PASCAL People forget that Omar Bradley went all around World War II with a big black poodle named Beau. And...
STANLEY COREN Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We ha...
AL GORE I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Speaking Of W...
ARTHUR BALFOUR I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of ...
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might ne...
NEIL CAVUTO Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhil...
EMMA STONE It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essent...
JOANNA GARCIA No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his ...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, ...
CHRISTIAN SLATER As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had...
JON MEACHAM Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling...
JOHN VAILLANT No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
THOMAS MOORE Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have l...
GRETCHEN RUBIN Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I w...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
F. J. RAYMOND There is nothing like going on a stage. You are in the saddle, and you've got to ride that horse...
BETH GRANT To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its fore...
ROBERT DALLEK To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of pre...
RONALD REAGAN Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI You can get something really really fabulous. I just tasted the Pol Roger Winston Churchill 1998 and...
JOE SCALICE Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
F. J. RAYMOND Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, b...
ELLEN BRAZER When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
LAURA MARANO So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dog...
CATHARINE MACKINNON What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most ex...
JEAN ANOUILH Stock is everything in cooking, at least in French cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. If one&...
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-...
LAPO ELKANN The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. •Hyman Rickover A prisoner of war is ...
HYMAN RICKOVER There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
JOHANN VON GOETHE It's nothing like on TV, ... On the way down there we knew we had no idea what it was going to be li...
CHRIS WHITE An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and count...
MATT HAIG Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Like Winston Churchill said, 'Never give up,' and I won't give up. It's a miracle th...
CRISTINA SARALEGUI Money is very important. It is almost impossible to live without it and not everything in life can b...
CRENSTON BOXHILL Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the f...
HANOI HANNAH Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occ...
BLAISE PASCAL If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Aryans?" I asked, thinking I must have heard the word incorrectly.
Christian and Allie nodded.<...
KATIE MACALISTER -Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè.
-Madam, se lei fosse mia moglie, io lo...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The Ruffed Padanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imita...
MIKE HARDING When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, neve...
ALAN DALE There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams
THOMAS MORE There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably do...
SARA TEASDALE Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, someth...
MAHATMA GANDHI But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why ...
CLINTON KELLY Dare to seize every opportunity on your life's journey.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Without obsession, life is nothing.
JOHN WATERS Life is nothing without friendship.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, di...
ADRIENNE RICH The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula...
MICHAEL J. BEHE The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as fa...
TOM HODGKINSON I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of...
MAHATMA GANDHI At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it...
SUSANNE BIER There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important ...
W. CLEMENT STONE God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex...
ROB SHEFFIELD So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without ca...
URSULA K. LE GUIN It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS I think he realizes he needs to be more aggressive. He didn't have to look for his shot as much last...
MARK GOTTFRIED There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a subl...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, no...
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE

More Winston S. Churchill

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL ...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was orig...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you are going through hell, keep going.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." WINSTON S. CHURCHILL He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most gr...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or pett...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Never, never, never give in!
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of soci...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in th...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to c...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The price of greatness is responsibility.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the hum...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under wat...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conf...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior al...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you're going through hell, keep going.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL A kite flies against the wind, not with it.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Ch...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You create your own universe as you go along.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on th...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour o...
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the d...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL -Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè.
-Madam, se lei fosse mia moglie, io lo...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its sce...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Great Britain will certainly do her utmost to organise a coalition resistance to any act of aggressi...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war s...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the tru...
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—eithe...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only t...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, m...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL That religion, which above all others was founded and propagated by the sword—the tenets and princ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end o...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shou...
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistre...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you ca...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has alre...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start t...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand befo...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
WINSTON CHURCHILL When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
WINSTON CHURCHILL No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the pat...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I s...
WINSTON CHURCHILL For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to histor...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
WINSTON CHURCHILL To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...
WINSTON CHURCHILL What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cea...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
WINSTON CHURCHILL War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
WINSTON CHURCHILL History is written by the victors.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket...
WINSTON CHURCHILL If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
WINSTON CHURCHILL War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
WINSTON CHURCHILL 'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
WINSTON CHURCHILL No crime is so great as daring to excel.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I never worry about action, but only inaction.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
WINSTON CHURCHILL One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do...
WINSTON CHURCHILL This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
WINSTON CHURCHILL My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alco...
WINSTON CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarante...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am easily satisfied with the very best.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Never, never, never give up.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is in the details.
WINSTON CHURCHILL For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not...
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