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
I shall always be glad to have seen it-for the same reason Papa gave for being glad to have seen Lisbon-namely, "that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.
I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.
I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.
The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss
The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness
It would not have been possible for any man in public life to get through what I have gone through without the devoted assistance of what we in England call one's better half.
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.