Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

302. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

307. “You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.”

— Winston Churchill

308. “The day may dawn when fair play, love for one’s fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.”

— Winston Churchill

309. “There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.”

— Winston Churchill

310. “Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”

— Winston Churchill

311. “I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.”

— Winston Churchill

312. “Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.”

— Winston Churchill

313. “The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.”

— Winston Churchill

314. “A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

316. “Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?”

— Winston Churchill

317. “Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing – after exhausting every other possible alternative.”

— Winston Churchill

318. “Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.”

— Winston Churchill

319. “If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.”

— Winston Churchill

320. “I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.”

— Winston Churchill

321. “We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.”

— Winston Churchill

322. “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.”

— Winston Churchill

323. “There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.”

— Winston Churchill

324. “Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life’s journey.”

— Winston Churchill

325. “We must build a kind of United States of Europe.”

— Winston Churchill

326. “When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”

— Winston Churchill

327. “It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.”

— Winston Churchill

328. “Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”

— Winston Churchill

329. “I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”

— Winston Churchill

330. “If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.”

— Winston Churchill

331. “The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, “God save the Queen”; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.”

— Winston Churchill

332. “The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there’s no limit to the power it can generate.”

— Winston Churchill

333. “Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.”

— Winston Churchill

334. “Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.”

— Winston Churchill

335. “At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.”

— Winston Churchill

336. “Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.”

— Winston Churchill

337. “Remember gentleman, it’s not just France we’re fighting for, it’s Champagne!”

— Winston Churchill

338. “Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?”

— Winston Churchill

339. “There are bitter weeds in England.”

— Winston Churchill

340. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”

— Winston Churchill

341. “A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.”

— Winston Churchill

342. “You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That’s what I always do.”

— Winston Churchill

343. “Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.”

— Winston Churchill

344. “An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.”

— Winston Churchill

345. “Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.”

— Winston Churchill

346. “A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.”

— Winston Churchill

347. “Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.”

— Winston Churchill

348. “What a fool I have been!”

— Winston Churchill

349. “No sky is heavy if the heart be light.”

— Winston Churchill

350. “An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.”

— Winston Churchill