Quotes By Winston Churchill

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather.

You must look at facts because they look at you.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards, our dwellings shape us.

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.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not, after all, turn out to be good luck.

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.