Quotes by Winston S. Churchill

“So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.”

“I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show -...”

“If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.”

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”

“Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

“I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

“I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.”

“A man must choose his own way of life, andit is only by following out ones own bent that there can be the really harmonious life. [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]”

“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”

“Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.”

“I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with e...”

“It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.”

“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”

“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield ...”

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

“A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]”