Winston Churchill

What is a fine person or a beauteous face,_x000D_ _x000D_ Unless deportment give them decent grace;_x000D_ _x000D_ Blessed with all other requisites to please,_x000D_ _x000D_ To want the striking elegance of ease;_x000D_ _x000D_ Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill_x000D_ _x000D_ Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

History is written by the victors.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.

Never let a good crisis go to waste

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.