Quotees Archive

We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger, how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull’s-eye of disaster.

- Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

- Winston Churchill

We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.

- Winston Churchill

We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

- Winston Churchill

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

- Winston Churchill

We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.

- Winston Churchill

To all of us comes that moment in life when we are literally tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to ourselves and our talents. What a pity if that moment finds us unprepared.

- Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

- Winston Churchill

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

- Winston Churchill

To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.

- Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

- Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

- Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

- Winston Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.

- Winston Churchill

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

- Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

- Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

- Winston Churchill

War will find us whether we are ready or not.

- Winston Churchill

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

- Winston Churchill

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

- Winston Churchill

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

- Winston Churchill

We are still masters of our fate.We are still captains of our souls.

- Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

- Winston Churchill

We are the masters of our fate.

- Winston Churchill

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

- Winston Churchill

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

- Winston Churchill

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.

- Winston Churchill

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

- Winston Churchill

They have destroyed your weapons,but these weapons would in any case have become obsolete before the next war. That war will be fought with brand-new ones, and the army which is least hampered with obsolete material will have a great advantage.

- Winston Churchill

They said it was only a ground shark, but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.

- Winston Churchill

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.

- Winston Churchill

This is a strange Christmas Eve,”Churchill told the the crowd of several hundred gathered at the mansion’s garden.”Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and with the most terrible weapons which science can devise the nations advance upon each other.

- Winston Churchill

This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.

- Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

- Winston Churchill

This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors.

- Winston Churchill

This is not the end its only the beginning

- Winston Churchill

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

- Winston Churchill

This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put!

- Winston Churchill

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put

- Winston Churchill

This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

- Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

- Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

- Winston Churchill

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

- Winston Churchill

Those whose work and pleasure are one… are… Fortune’s favoured children.

- Winston Churchill

Thus far then have we travelled along the terrible road we chose at the call of duty. The mood of Britain is wisely and rightly averse from every form of shallow or premature exultation. This is no time for boasts or glowing prophecies, but there is this: A year ago our position looked forlorn, and well nigh desperate to all eyes but our own. To-day we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: ‘We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.

- Winston Churchill

To Admiral Cunningham it was against all tradition to abandon the Army in such a crisis. He declared, “It takes the Navy three years to build a new ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition.

- Winston Churchill

The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

- Winston Churchill

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

- Winston Churchill

The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.

- Winston Churchill

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

- Winston Churchill