Winston Churchill Quotes

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
Winston Churchill

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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No crime is so great as daring to excel.
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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill