Winston Churchill

Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don’t want it; we won

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?