Quotes by Winston Churchill

“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”

“The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.”

“The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.”

“What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? Whats the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?”

“My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation.”

“Dont be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game thats played with a smile. If you cant smile, grin. If you cant grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

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

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.