Winston Churchill

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Well, dinner would have been splendid!

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

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

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

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Consequences are unpitying.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.