Quotes from Winston Churchill
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
Terminological inexactitude
- Winston Churchill
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
- Winston Churchill
The maxim "Nothing avails but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis."
- Winston Churchill
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!
- Winston Churchill
I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
- Winston Churchill
Without ships, we cannot live.
- Winston Churchill
Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
- Winston Churchill
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Winston Churchill
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
- Winston Churchill
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
- Winston Churchill
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
- Winston Churchill