Quotes
Quotes - Churchill
You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo.
The forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.
Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes appear like man and wife Coupled together for the sake of strife.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
