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No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

Winston Churchill
Short Life, Long, Understanding
Winston Churchill (1969). “History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill”

The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base there. The capture of Ceylon, the consequent control of the Indian Ocean, and the possibility at the same time of a German conquest of Egypt would have closed the ring and the future would have been black.

Winston Churchill
War, Ocean, Egypt
"Battle for the Skies". Book by Michael Paterson, David & Charles, 2004.

In war, truth is often the first casualty.

Winston Churchill
War, Interesting, Firsts

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

Winston Churchill
Art, Honesty, Honor

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

Winston Churchill
Wrong Things

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

Winston Churchill
Fall, Giving, Expectations

There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.

Winston Churchill
Future, Past, Two
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.

Winston Churchill
Nice, Devil, Politics

If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both

Winston Churchill
Responsibility, Generations, Looks

I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

Winston Churchill
Wine, White, Glasses
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.

Winston Churchill
Kings, Independent, Men
Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.133, RosettaBooks

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

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

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

Winston Churchill
Journey, May, Painting
Winston Churchill (1942). “Thoughts and Adventures”

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

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

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

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

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

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

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

Winston Churchill
Writing, Men, Forgiving
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

Winston Churchill
Humorous, Men, Reason
Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

Winston Churchill
Book, Years, Drawing
Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

Winston Churchill
People, Drunk, Lines
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.

Winston Churchill
War, Judging, Political
"Boothby: Recollections of a Rebel". Book by Robert Boothby, pp. 183-84, October, 1978.

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

Winston Churchill
Ordinary, Essentials, Noble
My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

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