(When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you are ugly; but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
~ Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory there is no survival.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
We must have a better word than prefabricated why not ready-made?
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
