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
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.
Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.
If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a brain.
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.