Winston Churchill

Can a people tax themselves into prosperity? Can a man stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle?

Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Winston Churchill

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford – we have no right – to look back. We must look forward

Winston Churchill

Dinner would have been splendid… if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

Winston Churchill

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

Winston Churchill

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Winston Churchill

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

Winston Churchill

Do what you like, but like what you do.

Winston Churchill

Don’t deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing… Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.

Winston Churchill

Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Winston Churchill