Quotes By Winston Churchill

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

I'm bored with it all.

Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.