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Wells Quotes by Winston Churchill
- The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
- Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won…
- It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really…
- It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite…
- It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the…
- One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some…
- The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
- Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show'…
- ... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well…
- The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social…
- We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some…
- If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
- It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East,…
- It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there…
- He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side…
- Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.
- We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned…
- Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the…
- We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than…
- Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men…
- it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage…
- Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.
- 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,…
- I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would…
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong