Memorable Quotes and quotations from Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill


Winston Churchill -
- When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.

Winston Churchill -
- I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill -
- The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill - Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412
- Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Winston Churchill - Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies in SE Asia
- What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?

Winston Churchill -
- I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

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

Winston Churchill -
- Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you.

Winston Churchill -
- This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

Winston Churchill -
- Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Winston Churchill -
- Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Winston Churchill - The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
- Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears.

Winston Churchill -
- Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Winston Churchill -
- We shape our buildings and they shape us.

Winston Churchill -
- Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill - responding to a journalist
- Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

Winston Churchill -
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill -
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill -
- You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

Winston Churchill - Speech about World War II
- Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.