Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

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

While the Hindu elaborates his argument, the Moslem sharpens his sword. Between these two races and creeds…the gulf is impassable.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.

All was there—the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Resposibility is the price of greatness.

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife's bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed...why should we fear for our future?

I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision. Life is a whole, and luck is a whole, and no part of them can be separated from the rest.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

I don't like mixing up moralities with mathematics.

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward.