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
Winston Churchill quotes about
You must look at the facts because they look at you
Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink it!
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
My grandfather had a very nice phrase about your grandfather,
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
I shall always be glad to have seen it-for the same reason Papa gave for being glad to have seen Lisbon-namely, "that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again.
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit to me.
If we can stand up to Hitler, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
My grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader,
...Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.