Winston Churchill Quotes about Sleep

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Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds? Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five

Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price

Winston Churchill

Sleep, Thinking, Pounds

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

Winston Churchill

Sleep, Fire, Bed

Sir Winston Churchill (1950). “The Grand Alliance”, p.540, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

Winston Churchill

Sleep, Two, Smoking

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 rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

Winston Churchill

Morning, Sleep, Night

Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

Winston Churchill

Sleep, Men, Dawn

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