Quotes By Winston Churchill

The Germans have received back again that measure of fire and steel which they have so often meted out to others. Now this is not the end. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

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

We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be we shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

This truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

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

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

We are masters of the unsaid words but slaves of those we let slip out.

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

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

Criticism may not be agreeable but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

If you are going through hell keep going.