He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. (Sir Stafford Cripps)

A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.

A Diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping that it will eat him last.

By swallowing words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.

Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount, and the tigers are getting hungry.

Don't talk to me about Naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Golf is a game who's aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined Government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

If we go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is to make the rubble bounce.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once, Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack.

Kites rise highest against the wind: not with it.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea! And if you were my wife, I would drink it!

No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.

The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

The grass grows green on the battlefield, but never on the scaffold.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.

You ask: What is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory! Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.