Winston Churchill

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

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

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Tell me anyway–Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by makebelieve.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The honest truth is that every day was new, every day was a challenge, every day was starting from a fresh place, and as time went on, over the course of about two years, things became better and better. But I don’t think that there was for me anything like, ‘Ah, this is taking too long’, because ‘long’ didn’t exist. So I see it as a blessing. I have to laugh. I mean there’s no other way to look at it.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.

Let them look up in the sky then…! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars…

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.