Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

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

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.