Quotes By Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

Science should be on tap, not on top.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.

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

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

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 am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.