Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.”

— Winston Churchill

402. “Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

404. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

406. “The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.”

— Winston Churchill

407. “When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you’re ugly. I can quit smoking.”

— Winston Churchill

408. “Success is never final.”

— Winston Churchill

409. “Watch your habits, they determine your character.”

— Winston Churchill

410. “An iron curtain has descended over Europe.”

— Winston Churchill

411. “During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.”

— Winston Churchill

412. “If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!”

— Winston Churchill

413. “Victory is only wrested by running risks.”

— Winston Churchill

414. “Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.”

— Winston Churchill

415. “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.”

— Winston Churchill

416. “Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.”

— Winston Churchill

417. “Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.”

— Winston Churchill

418. “I’d rather be right than consistent.”

— Winston Churchill

419. “Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.”

— Winston Churchill

420. “There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.”

— Winston Churchill

421. “There is nothing government can give you that it hasn’t taken from you in the first place.”

— Winston Churchill

422. “The English never draw a line without blurring it.”

— Winston Churchill

423. “I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.”

— Winston Churchill

424. “Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?”

— Winston Churchill

425. “Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.”

— Winston Churchill

426. “I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.”

— Winston Churchill

427. “Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.”

— Winston Churchill

428. “This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.”

— Winston Churchill

429. “Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.”

— Winston Churchill

430. “Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in ‘What made you pick this book I didn’t want to be read to out of up for?’”

— Winston Churchill

431. “Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.”

— Winston Churchill

432. “The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.”

— Winston Churchill

433. “We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”

— Winston Churchill

434. “A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.”

— Winston Churchill

435. “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

436. “Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.”

— Winston Churchill

437. “There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”

— Winston Churchill

438. “Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.”

— Winston Churchill

439. “No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.”

— Winston Churchill

440. “From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or – better still – torn to pieces by the German people themselves.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

442. “It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman – they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.”

— Winston Churchill

443. “We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.”

— Winston Churchill

444. “We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.”

— Winston Churchill

445. “Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.”

— Winston Churchill

446. “If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”

— Winston Churchill

447. “Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.”

— Winston Churchill

448. “You do your worst, and we’ll do our best.”

— Winston Churchill

449. “Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”

— Winston Churchill

450. “We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.”

— Winston Churchill