Winston Churchill

Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

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

It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.

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

You. Not wanting me. Was the beginning of me wanting myself. Thank you.

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.