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
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked
Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days.
I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws.
Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts
You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
It is certainly more agreeable to have power to give than to receive
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
...Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.