Quotes from Winston Churchill
What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
- Winston Churchill
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.
- Winston Churchill
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.
- Winston Churchill
I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
- Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Let us… brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour."
- Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken; some neck.
- Winston Churchill
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