Books Quote by Winston S. Churchill Download Open image ““This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”” — Winston S. Churchill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Humor
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.” — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
“And if we had learned anything from this story it was to be cautious of paper--to be mindful of its fragile construction and sharp… — Salvador Plascencia Copy Share Image
“A person lives for years, touches so many people, and then at the end winds up just a small picture and a few paragraphs… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
“No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or book. Whether… — Beth Mende Conny Copy Share Image
“As long as one person reads the bullshit I put on paper, and likes it, i'll keep writing.” — Benjamin Bayani Copy Share Image
“The Reader flexes a hand that is stiff and still stained with blood. The Reader holds all the power. It is the Reader who… — Loreth Anne White Copy Share Image
“Reading. Well Reading is...It´s really much more than that. A page of print is like a secret passage that leads you to Worlds so… — Peggy Christian Copy Share Image
“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.” — Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake Copy Share Image
“Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time,… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“Delight in smooth-sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“In the middle of April the Germans took a sombre decision. Ludendorff refers to it with bated breath. ... They transported Lenin in a… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image