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It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!
Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.
The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.
It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.
The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.
There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.
When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.
There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.
We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.
Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.
Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.
I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?
We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.
There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.
In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.
It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.