Winston Churchill
89 quotations
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.