121 Quotes By Winston Churchill


Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill on war

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill on war

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston Churchill on war

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

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill on war

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill on war

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston Churchill on war

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill on war

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill on war

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.
Winston Churchill on war

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill on war

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Winston Churchill on war

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston Churchill on war

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill on work

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill on saint patricks day

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill on courage

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill on fool

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Winston Churchill on science

There is no such thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill on taxes

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill on truth