Winston Churchill Quotes

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

A joke is a very serious thing.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Never, never, never give up.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

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.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.