Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Success always demands a greater effort.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

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

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

A kite flies against the wind, not with it.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.

My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

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.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.