Winston Churchill Quotes, War Quotes, Fiction Quotes

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

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Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

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Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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The only guide to man is his conscience.

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For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

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Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

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I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.

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A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.

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The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

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Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

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In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.

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They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

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The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

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[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

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The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

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