Quotes from Winston Churchill
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.
- Winston Churchill
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
- Winston Churchill
For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
- Winston Churchill
The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.
- Winston Churchill
The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'
- Winston Churchill
This was their finest hour
- Winston Churchill
You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
- 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 great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.
- Winston Churchill
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Winston Churchill