Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.”

— Winston Churchill

252. “Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.”

— Winston Churchill

253. “The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.”

— Winston Churchill

254. “The maxim, “Nothing prevails but perfection,” may be spelled PARALYSIS.”

— Winston Churchill

255. “I’m so bored with it all.”

— Winston Churchill

256. “The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.”

— Winston Churchill

257. “There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it.”

— Winston Churchill

258. “Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.”

— Winston Churchill

259. “There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.”

— Winston Churchill

260. “Nothing is perfect on the human stage...”

— Winston Churchill

261. “There but for the grace of God, goes God.”

— Winston Churchill

262. “Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.”

— Winston Churchill

263. “In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.”

— Winston Churchill

264. “Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.”

— Winston Churchill

265. “It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

267. “Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.”

— Winston Churchill

268. “War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

— Winston Churchill

269. “No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

— Winston Churchill

270. “Leadership is the intelligent use of power.”

— Winston Churchill

271. “Wars are not won by evacuations.”

— Winston Churchill

272. “These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

— Winston Churchill

273. “An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.”

— Winston Churchill

274. “Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems – or it may be the same problem – will be presented to every generation in different forms.”

— Winston Churchill

275. “The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.”

— Winston Churchill

276. “After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.”

— Winston Churchill

277. “To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.”

— Winston Churchill

278. “Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.”

— Winston Churchill

279. “Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.”

— Winston Churchill

280. “If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.”

— Winston Churchill

281. “Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.”

— Winston Churchill

282. “In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.”

— Winston Churchill

283. “There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.”

— Winston Churchill

284. “Things do not get better by being left alone.”

— Winston Churchill

285. “Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.”

— Winston Churchill

286. “It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.”

— Winston Churchill

287. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

— Winston Churchill

288. “When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.”

— Winston Churchill

289. “To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”

— Winston Churchill

290. “I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.”

— Winston Churchill

291. “In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action.”

— Winston Churchill

292. “Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”

— Winston Churchill

293. “Air power may either end war or end civilization.”

— Winston Churchill

294. “The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.”

— Winston Churchill

295. “I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.”

— Winston Churchill

296. “No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.”

— Winston Churchill

297. “When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was ‘Still?’”

— Winston Churchill

298. “Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!”

— Winston Churchill

299. “A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.”

— Winston Churchill

300. “A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.”

— Winston Churchill