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
I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.