William Churchill Quotes

#1. If I cry on telly, I'm genuinely crying. If it's a gritty scene it can come naturally.

Kelvin Fletcher

#2. One day, you will stand at the summit of a figurative mountain and look back on your life's journey. And, to your utter amazement, you will see how your experiences with depression, dark and painful as they were, only added to the overall beauty of your life.

Seth Adam Smith

#3. Churchill, too, offered Roosevelt a name for the war; it summed up in three words the entire legacy of the appeasers and isolationists: The Unnecessary War.

William Manchester

#4. Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ...

Lydia Millet

#5. I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.
[Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.]

Luis Federico Leloir

#6. was an eighth cousin of Churchill, and a sixth cousin, once removed, of FDR - and three of World War II's great leaders were thus linked by American intermarriages.

William Manchester

#7. Winston Churchill once quipped, "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." He went on to say, "I am an optimist. It does not seem much use being anything else.

William Ury

#8. In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry James called in English Hours persons for whom the private machinery of ease has been made to work with extraordinary smoothness.

William Manchester

#9. Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning. Others, like Churchill, quickly chafe at missing interaction and opportunity.

William Manchester

#10. Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence.

William Zinsser

#11. The truth is so precious," Churchill told Stalin, "that she should always be protected by a bodyguard of lies.

William Manchester

#12. Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

William Manchester

#13. That's my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

Walker Evans

#14. In 1988, William Manchester began writing The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm, the third and final volume of his biography of Winston Churchill.

William Manchester

#15. I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

Griffin Dunne

#16. It meant good-bye to London and to Churchill, whose company Harriman thoroughly enjoyed, and to Pamela, whose bed he enjoyed (the lovers' hiatus lasted almost three decades, until 1971, when Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward became the third Mrs. Harriman).

William Manchester