Winston Churchill Quotes

“Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.”

“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”

“With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.”

“Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.”

“We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?”

“The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.”

“If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both”

“No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.”

“A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.”

“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.”

“If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.”

“I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.”

“Nothing should be done for spite's sake.”

“If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!”

“Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.”

“The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.”

“The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.”

“Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.”

“The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.”

“We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.”

“When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

“Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.”

“We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?”

“Old men make war, young men fight and die”