Winston Churchill

We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.

Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Winston Churchill

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

Winston Churchill

When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you’re ugly. I can quit smoking.

Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Winston Churchill

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

Winston Churchill

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely – let the reader mark it – that they are identical.

Winston Churchill

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

Winston Churchill

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy, then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Winston Churchill