“Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.”
Source: The Churchill Wit
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Famous Winston Churchill Quotes
Source: War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945
“Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill
Source: Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
“History is written by the victors.”
Source: Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993
Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Source: Churchill By Himself
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
“He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Source: The Churchill Wit
“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
Source: War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
Source: Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War
“If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.”
Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963