"There is more blood than paint upon..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.”

“Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!”

“England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.”

“This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.”

“If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?”

“Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.”

“From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?”

“Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.”

“Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn't speak up, say I love you, or say I'm sorry.”