Quotes by Winston Churchill

About Winston Churchill:

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Winston Churchill

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

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.

Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Winston Churchill

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill

Author Bio

  • NameWinston Churchill
  • DescriptionPrime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II
  • AliasesSir Winston Churchill; Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill; The Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill; Colonel Warden
  • BornNovember 30, 1874
  • DiedJanuary 24, 1965
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPolitician; Journalist; Painter; Historian; Autobiographer
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Companion Of The Liberation; Fellow Of The Royal Society; Grand Cross Of The Order Of The Oak Crown; Honorary Citizen Of The United States; Order Of The White Lion; Charlemagne Prize; ; Order Of St. Olav; Freedom Award