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
Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.
The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.
I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.
I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.
Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.
A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.
Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.
[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.
Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.
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
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.
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.