Quotes by Churchill, Winston

"Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down."

Churchill, Winston on speakers and speaking   

"Opening amenities are often opening inanities."

Churchill, Winston on speakers and speaking   

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack."

Churchill, Winston on speakers and speaking
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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on success
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"I never worry about action, but only inaction."

Churchill, Winston on action
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"It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat."

Churchill, Winston on betrayal   

"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."

Churchill, Winston on business
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Churchill, Winston on capitalism
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

Churchill, Winston on change
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"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."

Churchill, Winston on character
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"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."

Churchill, Winston on charity   

"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future."

Churchill, Winston on time
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

Churchill, Winston on truth
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"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

Churchill, Winston on truth
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"Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance."

Churchill, Winston on vengeance
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"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."

Churchill, Winston on victory
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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

Churchill, Winston on virtue
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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

Churchill, Winston on vision
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"Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all."

Churchill, Winston on vocabulary
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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."

Churchill, Winston on war
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"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty."

Churchill, Winston on wealth
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"If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!"

Churchill, Winston on wives
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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

Churchill, Winston on wordiness
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"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

Churchill, Winston on words
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"Eating words has never given me indigestion."

Churchill, Winston on words
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"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

Churchill, Winston on worry
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"When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened."

Churchill, Winston on worry
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"Writing 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."

Churchill, Winston on writers and writing
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"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."

Churchill, Winston on adaptability
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"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."

Churchill, Winston on children
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"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."

Churchill, Winston on color   

"Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality."

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism
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"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!"

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism
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"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses."

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism
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"Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice."

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism   

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last."

Churchill, Winston on compromise
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"The English never draw a line without blurring it."

Churchill, Winston on compromise   

"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right."

Churchill, Winston on science
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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."

Churchill, Winston on contradiction   

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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