Winston Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Justice delayed is justice denied.