Winston Churchill

When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

What you can’t pay back you pay forward.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he does not.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

He hates chess. He says it is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something clever when they are only wasting their time.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.