Winston Churchill

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.