Winston Churchill Quotes

“How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.”

“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

“Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.”

“The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.”

“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

“To improve is to change.”

“Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.”

“Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.”

“Keep calm and carry on.”

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words.”

“Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.”

“We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.”

“Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.”

“I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.”

“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”

“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.”

“There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."”

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

“Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.”

“The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.”

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

“Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”

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

“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

“There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.”