121 Quotes By Winston Churchill


No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston Churchill on great

Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill on great

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill on great

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill on great

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill on history

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston Churchill on history

History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill on history

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill on history

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill on home

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill on hope

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill on humor

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill on intelligence

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill on learning

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill on life

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill on life

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston Churchill on life

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill on life

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill on life

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 life

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill on marriage