Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

353. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

355. “Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

359. “I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.”

— Winston Churchill

360. “I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.”

— Winston Churchill

361. “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’”

— Winston Churchill

362. “Two nations divided by a common language.”

— Winston Churchill

363. “Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?”

— Winston Churchill

364. “Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”

— Winston Churchill

365. “It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.”

— Winston Churchill

366. “There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

— Winston Churchill

367. “Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely – let the reader mark it – that they are identical.”

— Winston Churchill

368. “Eating words has never given me indigestion.”

— Winston Churchill

369. “Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.”

— Winston Churchill

370. “I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.”

— Winston Churchill

371. “I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

— Winston Churchill

372. “I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.”

— Winston Churchill

373. “Even fools are right sometimes.”

— Winston Churchill

374. “If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.”

— Winston Churchill

375. “Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. 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 others that have been.”

— Winston Churchill

376. “Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.”

— Winston Churchill

377. “The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.”

— Winston Churchill

378. “Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.”

— Winston Churchill

379. “Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.”

— Winston Churchill

380. “We will mete out to the Germans the measure and more than the measure that they have meted out to us. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best.”

— Winston Churchill

381. “There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.”

— Winston Churchill

382. “The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.”

— Winston Churchill

383. “Most people hate the taste of beer – to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.”

— Winston Churchill

384. “The women’s suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.”

— Winston Churchill

385. “But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?”

— Winston Churchill

386. “Our dog chases people on a bike. We’ve had to take it off him.”

— Winston Churchill

387. “And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.”

— Winston Churchill

388. “The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.”

— Winston Churchill

389. “The first quality that is needed is audacity.”

— Winston Churchill

390. “Expert knowledge is limited knowledge.”

— Winston Churchill

391. “No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”

— Winston Churchill

392. “Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.”

— Winston Churchill

393. “Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.”

— Winston Churchill

394. “We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.”

— Winston Churchill

395. “The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.”

— Winston Churchill

396. “I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.”

— Winston Churchill

397. “Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.”

— Winston Churchill

398. “The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.”

— Winston Churchill

399. “Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.”

— Winston Churchill

400. “What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”

— Winston Churchill