Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

304. “Watch your character for your character is your destiny.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

309. “Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

311. “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

312. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

315. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

320. “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

321. “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

322. “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

323. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

325. “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

326. “The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.”

— Winston Churchill

327. “Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”

— Winston Churchill

328. “Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

331. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

333. “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

334. “Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

337. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

340. “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

341. “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

342. “I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

344. “Sunshine is my quest.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

347. “There are bitter weeds in England.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

350. “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