Top 100 Winston Quotes
#1. Say what you want about healthcare in America, but where else in the world can you get free antibiotics by just drinking the milk or eating the chicken
Buddy Winston
#2. A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Winston Churchill
#3. 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
#4. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
#5. People think I appear on television to promote my image. That's not fair. I hate filming. I turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing.' But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. 'Super Doctors' is a very thoughtful piece.
Robert Winston
#6. I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
Winston Groom
#8. Her shadow kept her company along the corridor to her bedroom, preceding her like a welcoming innkeeper.
Winston Graham
#9. Let it never be said that you crept into the crypt, crapped, and crept out again.
Winston S. Churchill
#11. Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.
Winston Churchill
#12. Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.
Winston Churchill
#13. Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
#18. I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.
Winston Churchill
#19. George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico.
Bill O'Reilly
#20. Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
Winston Churchill
#21. I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
O. Winston Link
#22. How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.
Winston S. Churchill
#24. If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.
Winston Churchill
#25. We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
Marvin Minsky
#27. Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.
Winston Churchill
#29. Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common ... Celebrate it every day.
Winston Churchill
#30. Things is very primitive in the jungle - no place to shit, sleep on the ground like an animal, eat out of cans, no place to take a bath or nothing, clothes is all rotting off.
Winston Groom
#32. In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That
Winston Graham
#33. It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.
Winston Churchill
#34. At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.
Winston Churchill
#36. The name 'United Nations' was Franklin D. Roosevelt's idea. He rushed to tell Winston Churchill, who was towelling himself stark naked in his bathroom.
John Lloyd
#37. They have destroyed your weapons," he had told the generals, in effect. "But these weapons would in any case have become obsolete before the next war. That war will be fought with brand-new ones, and the army which is least hampered with obsolete material will have a great advantage.
Winston S. Churchill
#38. You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.
Winston Churchill
#39. For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill
#40. This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry ... I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America ... Everything else is swept away.
Winston Churchill
#41. Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.
A.E. Samaan
#43. At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.
Winston Churchill
#44. Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
Winston Churchill
#45. There was a sort of calculating ferocity in the boy's eye, a quite evident desire to hit or kick Winston and a consciousness of being very nearly big enough to do so.
George Orwell
#46. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston S. Churchill
#47. You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.
Winston Churchill
#48. Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.
Winston Churchill
#49. It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan.
Winston Graham
#50. I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.
Winston Churchill
#51. Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future ... But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.
Winston Churchill
#52. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.
Winston S. Churchill
#53. If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.
George Orwell
#54. It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
Winston Churchill
#55. Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.
Winston Churchill
#57. Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
(Winston Churchill)
Winston S. Churchill
#58. Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.
Winston Graham
#60. The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.
Winston Churchill
#62. She's beautiful,' he murmured.
'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.
'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.
George Orwell
#64. I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.
Winston Churchill
#65. we can't alter the world, we can only adapt ourselves to it.
Winston Graham
#66. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Winston S. Churchill
#68. I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.
Winston Churchill
#69. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Winston S. Churchill
#70. To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.
George Orwell
#71. I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston S. Churchill
#73. Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.
Alex Winston
#74. Winston Churchill said, "We shape our buildings and then they shape us."23 We make our technologies, and they, in turn, shape us.
Sherry Turkle
#75. Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.
Winston S. Churchill
#76. Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
Winston Churchill
#77. Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
Winston Churchill
#78. Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.
Winston Churchill
#79. We shall fight on the beaches,we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,we shall fight in the hills;but we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
#80. In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.
Winston Churchill
#82. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.
Winston Churchill
#83. inclined his head and moved off slowly across the beach. Tbe captain
Winston Graham
#85. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
Winston Churchill
#88. I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
- George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
- Churchill's response
George Bernard Shaw
#89. I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.
Alex Winston
#91. You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
Winston Churchill
#92. We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.
Winston Churchill
#93. Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.
Winston Churchill
#95. Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
#96. Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!
Winston Churchill
#98. I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.
Winston Churchill
#99. The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.
Winston Churchill
#100. If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.
Winston Churchill
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