Quotes By Winston Churchill

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.

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

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man ... the Kaffir is to be declared the brother of the European, to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights.

Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don't want it; we won.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city ... Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners.

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.