Best Churchill Quotations
122 Churchill quotes by 95 unique authors
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The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's…
— Ronald Reagan
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The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
— Paul Samuelson
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The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was…
— Mac Thornberry
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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…
— Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The…
— Terry Pratchett
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Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms,…
— Winston Churchill
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I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth…
— Chris Cleave
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Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the…
— David McCullough
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Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
— Winston Churchill
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Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit…
— Winston Churchill
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Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making…
— Haruki Murakami
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This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them…
— Aldous Huxley
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This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in…
— Adolf Hitler
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I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.
— Luis Federico Leloir
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One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about full of energy,…
— Paul Johnson
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The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and…
— Rick Atkinson
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
— Ferdinand Marcos
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there,…
— Lapo Elkann
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When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!
— Gretchen Rubin
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I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.
— Maurice Druon
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The Atlantic conference in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland is a dramatic moment in World War II history because for the first time, Roosevelt and…
— Robert Dallek
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The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.
— Stephen Kinzer
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