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We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Winston Churchill
War, Cat, Land
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

Winston Churchill
Inspiring, Dog, Military

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

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

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

Winston Churchill
Inspiring, Art, New Beginnings
"Thoughts and Adventures".

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

Winston Churchill
Lying, Bodyguard, Covered

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Winston Churchill
Inspiring, Quality, Audacity
Dame Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill (1990). “Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Winston Churchill
Peace, War, Patriotic
Winston Churchill (2013). “The Second World War”, p.565, A&C Black

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Winston Churchill
Friendship, Secret, Foe
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing... It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century.

Winston Churchill
Real, World Government, Civilization
"Bolshevism versus Zionism; a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people". Winston Churchill, Illustrated Daily Herald, February 8, 1920.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Winston Churchill
Home, Dwelling, Shapes
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

Winston Churchill
Friendship, Book, Writing
Sir Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The gathering storm”, Houghton Mifflin Company

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

Winston Churchill
Fighting, Men, Law
Sir Winston Churchill, Timothy Baker (1968). “The island race”

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

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

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

Winston Churchill
Memories, Commitment, Shields
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”

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Winston Churchill
Firsts, First Time, Sentences

From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.

Winston Churchill
Years, People, Germany

The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.

Winston Churchill
Cutting, Race, Years
Winston Churchill's addree as Home Secretary to Prime Minister Asquith on compulsory sterilization of 'the feeble-minded and insane', as quoted in "'Race', Sport and British Society" edited by Ben Carrington and Ian Mcdonald, 2001.

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
Civilization, Political, Democracy
Winston Churchill (1952). “The Second World War”

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

Winston Churchill
Political, Politics, Affair

Old men make war, young men fight and die

Winston Churchill
War, Fighting, Men

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Winston Churchill
Fighting, Battle, Trying
Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Winston Churchill
Inspiring, Honesty, Truth
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

Winston Churchill
War, Fighting, Russia
"War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943".

Writing is an adventure.

Winston Churchill
Writing, Adventure

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

Winston Churchill
Lying, Want, Politician
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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