Quotes by Winston Churchill

“MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought”

“This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.”

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

“Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better”

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time”

“If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.”

“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”

“Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, Id poison your tea.Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, Id drink it.”

“In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity”

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope”

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you cant smile, grin. If you cant grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”

“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”

“Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending-sit down.”

“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

“Im just preparing my impromptu remarks.”