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
Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
At every crisis the Kaiser crumpled. In defeat he fled; in revolution he abdicated; in exile he remarried.
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
You must look at the facts because they look at you
You may try to destroy all the wealth and find that all you have done is increase poverty.
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
They are clearly very much in love. It must be the end of a series of nightmare years for Camilla, every day reading in the papers about being the mistress this and that. They are entitled to have their own happiness the same as everyone else.
There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement around our table.
This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put
As far as I can see, you have used every cliche except 'God is love' and 'Please adjust your dress before leaving'.
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is -- the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.