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
Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.