Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Some people are stuck on who I was that who I am never even had a chance.

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

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, the citizens burning to approve a wrong or the frowning looks of a tyrant. Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, as the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought – with these I deal.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.