Quotes from Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Never, never, never give up.

If you find a job you love, you'll never work again.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no less of enthusiasm.

Have no fear of the future.

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

"Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about."

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.