Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Haven’t you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.