Churchill Quotes

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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. — Arthur Balfour
What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in… — David Cameron
A joke is a very serious thing. — Winston Churchill
Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest… — John Naughton
Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober. — Winston Churchill
For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he… — Adolf Hitler
Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black... — Danielle O'Hara
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying… — Malcolm Muggeridge
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than the… — Peter Hilton
What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really… — Christian Slater
I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were… — Albert Finney
I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer. — Patrick Macnee
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during… — John Vaillant
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my… — Yousuf Karsh
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon… — John F. Akers
What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an… — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain,… — Anthony Storr
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal… — Tom Peters
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to… — Tom Peters

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