Winston Churchill Quotes, Stars Quotes, Night Quotes

Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.

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An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

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I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

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A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

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The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

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If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.

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I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

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The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

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Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

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I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

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Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

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The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

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When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.

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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

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