“Winston himself lived ninety years without once drawing his own bath or riding on a bus. He took the tube just once. His wife had to send a party to rescue him; helpless, he was whirling round and round the tunnels under London.”
Source: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
“He wanted to lower taxes on the poor and raise them on unearned income: “The process of the creation of new wealth is beneficial to the whole community. The process of squatting on old wealth though valuable is a far less lively agent.”
Source: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932
“Safari, so goody.”
“He looked confused. “With your girlfriend, I mean. Who was to blame?”
“I don’t know,” I said. “Ultimately Churchill, I expect.”
Source: Er ist wieder da
“The shores of History are strewn with the wrecks of Empires.”
Source: Churchill By Himself
“Now at last, at last, his hour had struck. He had been waiting in Parliament for forty years, had grown bald and gray in his nation’s service, had endured slander and calumny only to be summoned when the situation seemed hopeless to everyone except him.”
Source: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932
“Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like to be taught. -- W. S. Churchill”
Source: Churchill & Smuts: The Friendship
“Every generation has its fraudsters like Edison,
Every generation has trashy maniacs like Columbus.
Every generation has war-merchants like Kissinger,
Every generation has its churchillian doofus.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“The west has systematically peddled
morons and monkeys as kings heroic,
white suffering is human suffering, while
the colored belong on national geographic.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“When we're down and out, when we're disappointed and dejected, when we're lost and confused, all we tend to see is the now. Hope helps us see the beyond.”
Source: Free Fall: Life Lessons That Caught Me When the Parachute Didn't