Winston Churchill was a famous British politician who was born on November 30th 1874 in Woodstock, England. His early life was spent in Dublin but he returned to England to attend school. He was one of the finest politician who was leader by his words.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
“In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity.”
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”
“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
“We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
Lady Astor: “Winston, if I were your wife I’d put poison in your coffee.”
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.”
“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”
“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”
“Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.”
“The Americans will always do the right thing… after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.”
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.”
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
“Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.”
“The Germans have received back again that measure of fire and steel which they have so often meted out to others. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill Quotes ( world war two )
“It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
“Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
“I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.”
“Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.”
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
“Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.”
“It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.”
“Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived. ”
“The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.”
Winston Churchill Quotes funny
Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” –Winston Churchill
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” –Winston Churchill
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” –Winston Churchill
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” –Winston Churchill
Lady Astor: “Winston, if I were your wife I’d put poison in your coffee.”
Winston Churchill: “Nancy, if I were your husband I’d drink it.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” –Winston Churchill
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” –Winston Churchill
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“A lady came up to me one day and said ‘Sir! You are drunk’, to which I replied ‘I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.” –Winston Churchill
“We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” –Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Quotes Integrity
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” ― Winston S. Churchill