Winston Churchill
89 quotations
The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]
The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Never, never, never, never give up.
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.