Famous Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotations

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"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"It is no use saying We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Kites rise highest against the wind---not with it."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'"
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will do our best."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."
by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill


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