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Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

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

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

Winston Churchill
Mean, Law, Justice

Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

Winston Churchill
Brother, Watches, Leisure

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

Winston Churchill
Exercise, Next Day, Next
Winston Churchill (1942). “Thoughts and Adventures”

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

Winston Churchill
Trouble, Ifs

Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'

Winston Churchill
Book, Want, Made

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

Winston Churchill
Book, Evening Light, Blue
Winston Churchill (2012). “The Crossing”, p.6, The Floating Press

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

Winston Churchill
War, Skulls, Laughing
Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.

Winston Churchill
Ladybugs, Killing, Butlers

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

Winston Churchill
Drinking, Smoking, Alcohol
Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm

Winston Churchill
Thinking, Worms, Glow Worms

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Winston Churchill
Fun, Humorous, Race

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

Winston Churchill
Business, People, Usual
"Churchill v Toynbee" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

Winston Churchill
Teaching, Prime, Ministers
My Early Life (1930) ch. 2

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

Winston Churchill
War, Important, World
Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

Winston Churchill
Hope, Past, Giving
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.549, Da Capo Press

Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill
Kings, Men, Quality
Winston Churchill (1959). “Great Contemporaries”

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

Winston Churchill
Book, Should, New Books
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

We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

Winston Churchill
Morning, Sleep, Eight
Winston Churchill (1996). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, Scribner

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Winston Churchill
Science, Age, Stones
1942 Speech, 26 Mar, in devastated war-time London.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

Winston Churchill
Stupid, People, May

I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

Winston Churchill
Regret, Race, Records

Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none.

Winston Churchill
Long, May, Mercy
"War of the Unknown Warriors", BBC Broadcast, London, winstonchurchill.org. July 14, 1940.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

Winston Churchill
Government, Democracy, Form

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

Winston Churchill
Horse, Taken, Son

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