Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RAwas a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer, 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth30 November 1874
CityWoodstock, England
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.
Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.
Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!
It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.
Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.
A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.
Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes...
Things do not get better by being left alone.