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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The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Winston Churchill

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Winston Churchill

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. Ne...

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

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

Winston Churchill

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Winston Churchill

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Winston Churchill

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Winston Churchill

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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