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.
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.
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
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.
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.Collection: Lying
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.Collection: Art
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.Collection: Inspirational
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.Collection: Inspirational
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.Collection: Mean
Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.Collection: Inspiring
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.Collection: Wisdom
A nation that forgets its past has no future.Collection: Past
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.Collection: Inspirational
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.Collection: Taken
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.Collection: Business
Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.Collection: Risk
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interestCollection: Funny
He who fails to plan is planning to fail.Collection: Planning
The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.Collection: Communication
Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.Collection: Inspirational
Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.Collection: Lasts
Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.Collection: Greatest Fear
More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.Collection: War
Nothing is won without enthusiasm.Collection: Enthusiasm
...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?Collection: War
England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.Collection: War
Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.Collection: Military
A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.Collection: Leisure
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.Collection: Eye
Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."Collection: Fall
I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.Collection: Writing
The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.Collection: Team
I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!Collection: Sports
I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.Collection: Sunshine
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.Collection: War
There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.Collection: War
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.Collection: War
Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.Collection: Leadership