Winston Churchill
89 quotations
In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.