Words From A Man With Nutz Of Steel (Sir Winston Churchill – British Prime Minister And Writer)

Words From A Man With Nutz Of Steel (Sir Winston Churchill – British Prime Minister And Writer)
I have only one purpose, the destruction of Hitler, and my life is much simplified thereby. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.
– The Grand Alliance


Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.


Madam, all babies look like me.
– When a woman said her baby looked like him.


Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
– While England Slept


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


To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war.
- Speech, Washington


We must build a kind of United States of Europe.
- Speech, Zurich


I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
- Said during a lunch with the Arab leader Ibn Saud, when he heard that the king's religion forbade smoking and alcohol.  (The Second World War)


The Bomb brought peace but man alone can keep that peace.
- Speech to the British Parliament


When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
- The Grand Alliance


So they told me how Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
- My Early Life


The nation had the lion's heart. I had the luck to give the roar.
- Speech to both houses of the British Parliament on the occasion of his 80th birthday


Everyone threw the blame on me. I have noticed that they nearly always do. I suppose it is because they think I shall be able to bear it best.
- My Early Life


Cannot make first night. Will come to second. If you have one.
- Replying to George Bernard Shaw's telegram: "Two tickets reserved for you, first night Pygmalion. Bring a friend. If you have one."


It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.


Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over.
- When asked whether the Niagara Falls looked the same as when he first saw them.


I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is ready for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Speech on his 75th birthday.


You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together—what do you get? The sum of their fears.
- Talking about the Chiefs of Staffs system.


The people have lost confidence in themselves, and they turn to the Government, looking for a restoration of that confidence. It is the task of the Government to supply it.
- Letter to Winston Churchill


This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
- Said to be a comment written in the margin of a report by a civil servant, referring to the person's use of a preposition at the end of a sentence. An alternative version of the remark substitutes "bloody nonsense" for "English."


Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
- Said to his son Randolph.


It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
- Speech to the British Parliament


We must have a better word than 'prefabricated'. Why not 'ready-made'?
- Closing the Ring


I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
- The Observer (London)


In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.

Everybody has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
- The Observer (London), "Sayings of the Week"


Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.
- The Observer (London), "Sayings of the Week"


The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.
 - Referring to Irish Home Rule.


Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.
- When someone told him that his trouser fly-buttons were undone.


In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill.
- Epigram used by Sir Edward Marsh after World War II; used as "a moral of the work" in Churchill's book.


I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.
- Referring to the Soviet statesman Molotov.


I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit...which I most desired to see was ”The Boneless Wonder.” My parents judged that that spectacle would be too revolting and demoralising for my youthful eyes, and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
- Speech to the British Parliament


Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.
- My Early Life


I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.


A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.
- Speech to the British Parliament


Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.
- Election speech, Manchester


It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- My Early Life


Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days.
- Referring to cooperation with the United States.


Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.


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


I said that the world must be made safe for at least fifty years. If it was only for fifteen to twenty years then we should have betrayed our soldiers.
- Closing the Ring


He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, 'Before they get up they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they sit down, they do not know what they have said.'
- Speech to the British Parliament


The art of making deep sounds from the stomach sound like important messages from the brain.
- Referring to the art of speechmaking.


In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Said to Stalin.


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.
- My Early Life


There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
- Radio broadcast


The redress of the grievances of the vanquished should precede the disarmament of the victors.
- The Gathering Storm


This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Referring to final Allied success in the North African campaign at the Battle of El Alamein.


Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
- Speech to the British Parliament


When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their Generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet: `In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.'

Some chicken! Some neck!
- Speech to the Canadian Parliament


You do your worst, and we will do our best.
- Speech addressed to Hitler.


When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
- Their Finest Hour


I'm so bored with it all.
- Said to be his last words.