Author: Winston Churchill

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

No matter… the dead bird does not leave the nest.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: If I were married to you, I’d put poison in your coffee.

Churchill, in reply: If you were my wife, I’d drink it.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

It makes me look as if I were straining a stool.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Americans always try to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Golf: An ineffectual attempt to direct an uncontrollable sphere into an inaccessible hole with instruments ill-adapted to the purpose.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

A joke is a very serious thing.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

What can you do with a man who looks like a female llama surprised when bathing?

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

I'm so bored with it all.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Lady Astor to Churchill: ‘Sir you’re drunk!’

Churchill’s reply: Yes, madam, I am drunk, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

[He] is the only bull who carries his china shop with him.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator