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
You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.
Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.
I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.
It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.
Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.
Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.
A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.
When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.