Winston Churchill

Wars are not won by evacuations.

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

If you find something you really love, you will never work again.

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.