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
If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.
The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.
I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over.