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A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill
Humorous, Party, Drinking

The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed.

Winston Churchill
Loyalty, Mistake, Sleep
'The Second World War' vol. 2 (1949) ch. 1

The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Winston Churchill
Ambition, Men, Play
Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

Winston Churchill
War, World Government, Law

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

Winston Churchill
Government, Done, Politics
Sir Winston Churchill (1939). “Step by Step: 1936-1939”, Ayer Company Pub

No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.

Winston Churchill
Horse, Grief, Taken
Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Winston Churchill
One Day, Mortality, Ruthless
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.

Winston Churchill
Moving, Hands, Secret

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Winston Churchill
Simple, Mind, Analogies

There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.

Winston Churchill
Men, Play, Honor

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Winston Churchill
Thinking, People, Taught
'Masters of Our Fate' Speech to Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, delivered 26 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

Winston Churchill
Moving, Animal, Pursuit Of Happiness
Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

Winston Churchill
Adversity, Years, Wish

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

Winston Churchill
Victory, Defeat, Dear
Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

Winston Churchill
Ideas, Fit, Embrace
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

Winston Churchill
Life, Complaining, World
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing.

Winston Churchill
Country, Horse, Military
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

Winston Churchill
Home, Butterfly, Journey
Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.

Winston Churchill
People, Evil, India
Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

Winston Churchill
Country, Europe, People
"The White Goddess (A Grammar of Poetic Myth)" by, pitchfork.com. October 28, 2013.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

Winston Churchill
War, Lying, Europe
"The Sinews of Peace". Winston Churchill's speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, www.nato.int. March 5, 1946.

The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

Winston Churchill
Loss, Feelings, Finals
Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.

Winston Churchill
Doors, Essence, House
Winston Churchill (1959). “Great Contemporaries”

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

Winston Churchill
Funny, Uplifting, Baby
Speech on radio, 21 Mar. 1943, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 7, p. 6761

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.

Winston Churchill
Mean, Years, Heaven
Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1995). “Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993”, Churchill Center

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