Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 6 of 10

251. “Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.”

— Winston Churchill

252. “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”

— Winston Churchill

253. “No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.”

— Winston Churchill

254. “You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.”

— Winston Churchill

255. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

259. “Never run away from anything. Never!”

— Winston Churchill

260. “Unpunctuality is a vile habit.”

— Winston Churchill

261. “There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.”

— Winston Churchill

262. “Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.”

— Winston Churchill

263. “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

264. “Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

266. “I’m so bored with it all.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

269. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

271. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

273. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

278. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

280. “Wars are not won by evacuations.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

283. “I think a curse should rest on me – because I love this war. I know it’s smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment – and yet – I can’t help it – I enjoy every second of it.”

— Winston Churchill

284. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

286. “The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

290. “Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

293. “Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

295. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

299. “No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill