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
If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a brain.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.
We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
As far as I can see, you have used every cliche except 'God is love' and 'Please adjust your dress before leaving'.
During my life, I have often had to eat my own words, and on the whole I have found them a wholesome diet
This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put
Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears
You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.