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
It would not have been possible for any man in public life to get through what I have gone through without the devoted assistance of what we in England call one's better half.
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Sometimes people will stumble over the truth. But then they get up and continue to run like nothing has happened
There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement around our table.
I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit . . . which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder'.
Don't argue about difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is -- the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else
During my life, I have often had to eat my own words, and on the whole I have found them a wholesome diet
Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better
This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.