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
(Prime Minister Joseph) Chamberlain loves the working man - he loves to see him work
Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.
My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.
One ought to be just before one is generous
If you find something you really love, you will never work again.
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]
If you find a job you love, you'll never work again...
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.