A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. George Bernard Shaw A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. George Bernard Shaw A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman. George Bernard Shaw A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw A happy family is but an earlier heaven. George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. George Bernard Shaw A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. George Bernard Shaw A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. George Bernard Shaw A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. George Bernard Shaw A Native American Elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "the one I feed the most." George Bernard Shaw A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. George Bernard Shaw All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. George Bernard Shaw All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. George Bernard Shaw Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. George Bernard Shaw Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. George Bernard Shaw An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. George Bernard Shaw An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. George Bernard Shaw An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. George Bernard Shaw An index is a great leveller. George Bernard Shaw Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. George Bernard Shaw Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. George Bernard Shaw Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? George Bernard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. George Bernard Shaw Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. George Bernard Shaw Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. George Bernard Shaw Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. George Bernard Shaw Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. George Bernard Shaw Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. George Bernard Shaw Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. George Bernard Shaw Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. George Bernard Shaw Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. George Bernard Shaw Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. George Bernard Shaw Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. George Bernard Shaw England and America are two countries separated by the same language. George Bernard Shaw Every man over forty is a scoundrel. George Bernard Shaw Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it. George Bernard Shaw Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. George Bernard Shaw Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. George Bernard Shaw Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. George Bernard Shaw Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. George Bernard Shaw Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. George Bernard Shaw First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! George Bernard Shaw General consultant to mankind. George Bernard Shaw Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. George Bernard Shaw Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household. George Bernard Shaw Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy. George Bernard Shaw Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. George Bernard Shaw He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life. George Bernard Shaw He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. George Bernard Shaw He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. George Bernard Shaw Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. George Bernard Shaw Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. George Bernard Shaw Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. George Bernard Shaw How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. George Bernard Shaw I absolutely forbid any such outrage. George Bernard Shaw I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. George Bernard Shaw I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. George Bernard Shaw I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. George Bernard Shaw I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. George Bernard Shaw
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. George Bernard Shaw I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. George Bernard Shaw I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. George Bernard Shaw I want to be all used up when I die. George Bernard Shaw I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. George Bernard Shaw I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. George Bernard Shaw I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. George Bernard Shaw If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. George Bernard Shaw If parents would only realize how they bore their children! George Bernard Shaw If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. George Bernard Shaw If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves. George Bernard Shaw If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. George Bernard Shaw If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. George Bernard Shaw Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. George Bernard Shaw In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. George Bernard Shaw In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. George Bernard Shaw Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. George Bernard Shaw It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not. George Bernard Shaw It is most unwise for people in love to marry. George Bernard Shaw
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. George Bernard Shaw It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion. George Bernard Shaw It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right. George Bernard Shaw Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. George Bernard Shaw Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. George Bernard Shaw Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice. George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. George Bernard Shaw Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. George Bernard Shaw Most people do not pray; they only beg. George Bernard Shaw My reputation grows with every failure. George Bernard Shaw Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. George Bernard Shaw Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. George Bernard Shaw New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths. George Bernard Shaw No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. George Bernard Shaw No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. George Bernard Shaw No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. George Bernard Shaw Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. George Bernard Shaw Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. George Bernard Shaw Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. George Bernard Shaw People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. George Bernard Shaw People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. George Bernard Shaw Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. George Bernard Shaw Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. George Bernard Shaw Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. George Bernard Shaw Property is organized robbery. George Bernard Shaw
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. George Bernard Shaw Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. George Bernard Shaw Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. George Bernard Shaw She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. George Bernard Shaw Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. George Bernard Shaw Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not? George Bernard Shaw Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. George Bernard Shaw Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw Syllables govern the world. George Bernard Shaw Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. George Bernard Shaw The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. George Bernard Shaw The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. George Bernard Shaw The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. George Bernard Shaw The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. George Bernard Shaw The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. George Bernard Shaw The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. George Bernard Shaw The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. George Bernard Shaw The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. George Bernard Shaw The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. George Bernard Shaw The love of economy is the root of all virtue. George Bernard Shaw The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. George Bernard Shaw The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The povertystricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. George Bernard Shaw The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. George Bernard Shaw The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. George Bernard Shaw The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves. George Bernard Shaw The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. George Bernard Shaw The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. George Bernard Shaw The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. George Bernard Shaw The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. George Bernard Shaw The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. George Bernard Shaw
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. George Bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. George Bernard Shaw The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. George Bernard Shaw The true joy of life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances. George Bernard Shaw The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. George Bernard Shaw The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction. George Bernard Shaw The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. George Bernard Shaw There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes. George Bernard Shaw There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. George Bernard Shaw There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. George Bernard Shaw There is no sincerer love than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. George Bernard Shaw Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw Very few people can afford to be poor. George Bernard Shaw Virtue is insufficient temptation. George Bernard Shaw Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. George Bernard Shaw We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. George Bernard Shaw We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. George Bernard Shaw What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? George Bernard Shaw What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? George Bernard Shaw What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. George Bernard Shaw What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of
the child. George Bernard Shaw When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. George Bernard Shaw When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater. George Bernard Shaw When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices. George Bernard Shaw When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition until death do them part. George Bernard Shaw Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. George Bernard Shaw Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! George Bernard Shaw Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. George Bernard Shaw Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. George Bernard Shaw You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. George Bernard Shaw
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. George Bernard Shaw You cannot be a hero without being a coward. George Bernard Shaw You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. George Bernard Shaw Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw Youth is wasted on the young
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill A joke is a very serious thing. Winston Churchill A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Winston Churchill A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. Winston Churchill A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. Winston Churchill All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Winston Churchill
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. Winston Churchill Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Winston Churchill Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it. Winston Churchill An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Winston Churchill Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. Winston Churchill Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. Winston Churchill Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. Winston Churchill Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Winston Churchill By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. Winston Churchill Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about. Winston Churchill Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. Winston Churchill Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much. Winston Churchill Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. Winston Churchill Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Winston Churchill Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. Winston Churchill Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. Winston Churchill Eating words has never given me indigestion. Winston Churchill Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. Winston Churchill Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. Winston Churchill For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. Winston Churchill For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. Winston Churchill From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Winston Churchill He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Winston Churchill He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Winston Churchill He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about. Winston Churchill History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. Winston Churchill I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws. Winston Churchill I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. Winston Churchill I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. Winston Churchill I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Winston Churchill I am bored with it all. Winston Churchill I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. Winston Churchill I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. Winston Churchill I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. Winston Churchill I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing. Winston Churchill I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. Winston Churchill I have never developed indigestion from eating my words. Winston Churchill I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Winston Churchill I like a man who grins when he fights. Winston Churchill I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. Winston Churchill I never worry about action, but only inaction. Winston Churchill I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. Winston Churchill
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. Winston Churchill If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. Winston Churchill If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you! Winston Churchill If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. Winston Churchill 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. Winston Churchill If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Winston Churchill If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. Winston Churchill If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack. Winston Churchill If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Winston Churchill If you're going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. Winston Churchill In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
Winston Churchill In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. Winston Churchill In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. Winston Churchill In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Winston Churchill It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Winston Churchill It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another. Winston Churchill It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat. Winston Churchill It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. Winston Churchill It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. Winston Churchill It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. Winston Churchill
It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. Winston Churchill Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. Winston Churchill Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. Winston Churchill Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. Winston Churchill Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. Winston Churchill Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill. Winston Churchill Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway. Winston Churchill Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right. Winston Churchill My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. Winston Churchill My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill
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. Winston Churchill My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. Winston Churchill 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 honor and good sense. Winston Churchill Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. Winston Churchill Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill Never, never, never give up. Winston Churchill "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. Winston Churchill No crime is so great as daring to excel. Winston Churchill No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. Winston Churchill No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. Winston Churchill No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. Winston Churchill No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. Winston Churchill Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. Winston Churchill
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Winston Churchill Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Winston Churchill One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. Winston Churchill One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Winston Churchill Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. Winston Churchill Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. Winston Churchill Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. Winston Churchill Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. Winston Churchill Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. Winston Churchill Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. Winston Churchill Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better. Winston Churchill
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. Winston Churchill Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Winston Churchill Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Winston Churchill Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart. Winston Churchill Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. Winston Churchill Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam. Winston Churchill Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. Winston Churchill Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves. Winston Churchill The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told
how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. Winston Churchill The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Winston Churchill The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill The first quality that is needed is audacity. Winston Churchill The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. Winston Churchill The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Winston Churchill The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. Winston Churchill The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. Winston Churchill The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual." Winston Churchill The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go. Winston Churchill The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. Winston Churchill The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Winston Churchill The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. Winston Churchill The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. Winston Churchill The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. Winston Churchill The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. Winston Churchill There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. Winston Churchill There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. Winston Churchill There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. Winston Churchill There is no such thing as a good tax. Winston Churchill There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. Winston Churchill There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Winston Churchill There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement around our table. Winston Churchill These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. Winston Churchill They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. Winston Churchill
They told me that Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right. Winston Churchill This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. Winston Churchill This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. Winston Churchill 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. Winston Churchill To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Winston Churchill To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. Winston Churchill Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent. Winston Churchill True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winston Churchill Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is. Winston Churchill 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. Winston Churchill War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. Winston Churchill War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. Winston Churchill
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. Winston Churchill We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. Winston Churchill We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. Winston Churchill We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. Winston Churchill We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic. Winston Churchill We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Winston Churchill We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. Winston Churchill We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Winston Churchill We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. 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 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. Winston Churchill When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
Winston Churchill When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. Winston Churchill When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. Winston Churchill When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. Winston Churchill When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself. Winston Churchill Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. Winston Churchill Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Winston Churchill Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. Winston Churchill You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. Winston Churchill You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life