Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

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

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gongthese are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

Private men, in fine, are so much their own, that, paying common dues, they are sovereigns of all the rest. Yet the public must and will be served; and they that do it well, deserve public marks of honour and respect. To do so, men must have public minds, as well as salaries; or they will serve private ends at the public cost. Government can never be well administered, but where those intrusted make conscience of well discharging their places.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

My emancipation don’t fit your equation.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.