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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Quote by Winston Churchill about man

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

Quote by Winston Churchill about thinking, rightness

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Quote by Winston Churchill about wife, ability

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Quote by Winston Churchill about smokers, drinking, rules, need, life

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Quote by Winston Churchill about wife

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Quote by Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Quote by Winston Churchill about conflict, human imperfections

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.

Quote by Winston Churchill about peace, war, good, good luck

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Quote by Winston Churchill about destruction, day

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Quote by Winston Churchill about change, perfection

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Quote by Winston Churchill about man

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Quote by Winston Churchill about unforeseen, genius

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Quote by Winston Churchill about victory, survival, fear

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Quote by Winston Churchill about smile, games, war, contentment

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Quote by Winston Churchill about faith

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Quote by Winston Churchill about blood, nation

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Quote by Winston Churchill about word

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Quote by Winston Churchill