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Winston Churchill Quotes
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About Winston Churchill
 Life: 1874 - 1965 Country: England Profession: Politician; Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874-24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army. A prolific author, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his own historical writings.
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View Afrikaans quotes by this author.QuotationsI am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ~ Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. ~ Winston Churchill
I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me. ~ Winston Churchill - 1964
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. ~ Winston Churchill
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
~ Winston Churchill
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. ~ Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ~ Winston Churchill
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up. ~ Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last. ~ Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. ~ Winston Churchill
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. ~ Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ~ Winston Churchill
At every crisis the Kaiser crumpled. In defeat he fled; in revolution he abdicated; in exile he remarried. ~ Winston Churchill
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. ~ Winston Churchill
A modest little person, with much to be modest about. ~ Winston Churchill
Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts. ~ Winston Churchill
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