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Old Quotes by Winston Churchill
- Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
- The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
- We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills.…
- Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.
- If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a…
- The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always…
- We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address…
- Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.
- There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no…
- There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would…
- The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.
- The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must…
- Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no…
- 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…
- When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had…
- We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
- Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
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