Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

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

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen’s speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Truth isn’t truth.

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

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth… and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I’m looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

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

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

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

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

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.