Winston Churchill > Quotes

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
― Winston Churchill

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

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
― Winston Churchill

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
― Winston Churchill

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston Churchill

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston Churchill

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
― Winston Churchill

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston Churchill

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
― Winston Churchill

“Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
Exchange between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill—”
― Winston Churchill

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston Churchill

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston Churchill

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston Churchill

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
― Winston Churchill

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
― Winston Churchill

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
― Winston Churchill

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston Churchill

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
― Winston Churchill

“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
― Winston Churchill

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
― Winston Churchill

“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.”
― Winston Churchill

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
― Winston Churchill, Wealth, War, and Wisdom

“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 honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
― Winston Churchill, Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

“Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
― Winston Churchill

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
― Winston Churchill

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
― Winston Churchill

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
― Winston Churchill

“We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”
― Winston Churchill