Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. Winston Churchill More Quotes by Winston Churchill More Quotes From Winston Churchill We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days. Winston Churchill facultyleadershipdark Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved. Winston Churchill issuesdecisionleadership I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth. Winston Churchill ripleadershipway Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men? Winston Churchill destinymencountry Nothing is won without enthusiasm. Winston Churchill enthusiasm The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow. Winston Churchill costisraeltoday ...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms? Winston Churchill ukrainestresswar England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war. Winston Churchill englandchoiceswar Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield. Winston Churchill primemilitaryfirsts Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers. Winston Churchill leisurebrotherwatches Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library. Winston Churchill libraryleisuremen A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted. Winston Churchill leisure Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die. Winston Churchill donefuntrying One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet. Winston Churchill orangekeysreflection ... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same. Winston Churchill battlefightingtrying Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work. Winston Churchill appreciateairart I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours. Winston Churchill walllighthouse Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box. Winston Churchill efforteyejoy Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people." Winston Churchill seameanfall I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing. Winston Churchill leisurebornwriting
