Winston Churchill Quotes, Short Life Quotes, Long Quotes

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Short Life Quotes , Long Quotes

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Opening Quotes , Amenities Quotes

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Men Quotes , Rich Quotes

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Motivational Quotes

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Food Quotes , Years Quotes

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Sad Quotes , Witty Quotes

Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Islands Quotes , Years Quotes

One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Might Quotes , Wells Quotes

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Witty Quotes , Inspiration Quotes

History is written by the victors.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Humorous Quotes

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Military Quotes , Air Quotes

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Simple Quotes , Mind Quotes

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Leadership Quotes , Mistake Quotes

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Trying Quotes

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Stars Quotes , Ocean Quotes

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Eagles Quotes

A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Men Quotes , Mind Quotes

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Winning Quotes

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Men Quotes , Doors Quotes

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Office Quotes