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- A joke is a very serious thing.
- Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.
- History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards…
- One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the…
- The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet…
- Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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.
- 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…
- Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink it.
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill
- Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. -Winston Churchill
More Churchill Quotes
- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Peter Hilton
- What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who… — 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… — 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… — Albert Finney