Quotes from Winston Churchill

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.

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

When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.