Winston Churchill Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

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Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

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If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

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The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

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Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

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Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

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This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

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If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

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Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

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In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

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There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

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Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

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Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

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A joke is a very serious thing.

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I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

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The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

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I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

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One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some kind of velvety cool blackness," adding then: "Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."

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You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

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