"I have nothing to offer but blood,..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”

“Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.”

“I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.”

“Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?”

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

“If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.”

“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).”

“Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.”

“Luck is for the ill-prepared.”