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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Winston Churchill
Humorous, Eating, Indigestion

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.

Winston Churchill
Finals, Hours, Pupils
Wolfgang Mieder, Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.

Winston Churchill
Husband, Poison, Politics
Attributed in Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Glitter and Gold (1952).

We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.

Winston Churchill
Men, Effort, Progress

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
War, Winning, Political
1930 My Early Life.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

Winston Churchill
Nazism, Communism, Ifs
Winston Churchill (1963). “The Yankee Marlborough”

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

Winston Churchill
Self Esteem, Men, Dignity
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

Winston Churchill
War, Character, Science

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

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

The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

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

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

Winston Churchill
Army, British Navy, Royal

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

Winston Churchill
War, Taken, Army

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

Winston Churchill
War, Taken, Decision
Sir Winston Churchill (1950). “The Grand Alliance”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.

Winston Churchill
Morning, Alcohol, Ugly

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

Winston Churchill
War

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

Winston Churchill
Play, Ideas, Dwelling
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Winston Churchill
Motivational, Should Have, Track

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

Winston Churchill
Dinner, Leisure, Topics

These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city ... Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners.

Winston Churchill
Children, Numbers, Cities
Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Sir Winston Churchill, K. G., P. C., O. M., C. H., M. P.: selections from his writings and speeches”

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

Winston Churchill

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

Winston Churchill
History, Lessons, Mankind
Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.

Winston Churchill
Might, Wells, Recognise
Winston Churchill's remarks in Paris (January 24, 1919), as quoted in in Martin Gilbert "Churchill: A Life" (p. 408), October 15, 1992.

The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.

Winston Churchill
Dog, Dining, Meals

An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

Winston Churchill
Morning, Autumn, Night

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

Winston Churchill
Sacrifice, D Day, Complicated

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