Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RAwas a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer, and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth30 November 1874
CityWoodstock, England
What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing
People imagine that Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin arrived in Yalta with a blank sheet of paper to decide the fate of Europe. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
Success is bounding from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will
The mind is like the stomach, you should only asks as much as it can digest.
I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire
I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.
Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance.
By being so long in the lowest form I gained an immense advantage over the cleverest boys . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the normal British sentence - which is a noble thing.