249 Quotes by Winston S. Churchill

It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune’s favoured children.

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, “If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea.” Churchill’s response, “Ma’am if you were my wife I would drink it.

He is no Socialist who will not sacrifice his Fatherland for the triumph of the Social Revolution.’ – LENIN.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

The maxim, “Nothing prevails but perfection,” may be spelled PARALYSIS.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed... why should we fear for our future?

The prejudice of the Americans against monarchy, which Mr. Lloyd George made no attempt to counteract, had made it clear to the beaten Empire that it would have better treatment from the Allies as a republic than as a monarchy. Wise policy would have crowned and fortified the Weimar Republic with a constitutional sovereign in the person of an infant grandson of the Kaiser, under a Council of Regency.