Winston Churchill

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

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

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

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

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?… What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.