Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “An iron curtain has descended over Europe.”

— Winston Churchill

402. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

405. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

409. “Sunshine is my quest.”

— Winston Churchill

410. “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

411. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

414. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

417. “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

418. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

421. “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

422. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

431. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

435. “I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

— Winston Churchill

436. “As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

438. “We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

440. “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

441. “The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

443. “The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

445. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

447. “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

448. “I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill