Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.”

— Winston Churchill

352. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

355. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

358. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

361. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

365. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

367. “Even fools are right sometimes.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

370. “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

371. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

375. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

379. “If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.”

— Winston Churchill

380. “Expert knowledge is limited knowledge.”

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

— Winston Churchill

382. “Don’t argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.”

— Winston Churchill

383. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

386. “The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.”

— Winston Churchill

387. “We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.”

— Winston Churchill

388. “If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

390. “If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.”

— Winston Churchill

391. “Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.”

— Winston Churchill

392. “When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne.”

— Winston Churchill

393. “To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

397. “Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

— Winston Churchill

398. “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

399. “In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.”

— Winston Churchill

400. “When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”

— Winston Churchill