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
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, 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
I never worry about action, but only about inaction
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense
(Prime Minister Joseph) Chamberlain loves the working man - he loves to see him work
Everybody has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper.
Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.