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
Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.
[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.
Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.
[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.
I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.
If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.
Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!
I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.
[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.
Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.
Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.
It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.
There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.