Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.