Quotes By Winston Churchill

We must go on and on like the gun-horses, till we drop.

When one crest line is abandoned it is necessary to return to the next. Halting at a "half-way house" mid-way in the valley is fatal.

It is like going up a mountain. Each successive peak appears in turn the summit, and yet there is always another pinnacle beyond.

There is all the difference in the world between a man who knocks you down and a man who leaves you alone.

When one is trying to give pleasure it is always well to do it in the best possible way.

It is a fine game to play the game of politics and it is well worth a good hand before really plunging.

But on the whole it is wise in human affairs, and in the government of men, to separate pomp from power.

It is pretty tough to reshape human society in an after-dinner speech.

Success always demands a greater effort.

After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action.

Weakness is not treason, though it may be equally disastrous.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman; they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

The Socialists have spared no expense in producing a policy for the next election. There is a great deal in it that is sound sense, as well as a lot more that is all sound and all nonsense.

Personally, I think Lloyd George a vulgar, chattering little cad.

The devoted onset of the Russian armies which saved Paris in 1914; the mastered agony of the munitionless retreat....has [Nicholas II] no share in these?

The cause of disarmament will not be attained by Mush, Slush and Gush. It will be advanced steadily by the harassing expense of fleets and armies, and by the growth of confidence in a long peace.

How can I accept the Order of the Garter, when the people of England have just given me the Order of the Boot?

I always hate to compare Napoleon with Hitler, as it seems an insult to the great Emperor and warrior to connect him in any way with a squalid caucus boss and butcher.

Unless the Rt. Hon. Gentleman changes his policy and methods...he will be as great a curse to this country in time of peace, as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war.