Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill More Quotes by Winston Churchill More Quotes From Winston Churchill There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do. Winston Churchill purpose Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children. Winston Churchill pleasurefortunechildren Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day. Winston Churchill showsactionmight Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches. Winston Churchill whiskywhiskeyspeech It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience. Winston Churchill templesnakedvices I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it. Winston Churchill threateninglettersnumbers I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench. Winston Churchill eyetakenchildren [My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist. Winston Churchill topicsleisuredinner If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace. Winston Churchill adversityofficefeelings Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes? Winston Churchill I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop. Winston Churchill trackshould-havemotivational I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom. Winston Churchill dwellingplayideas These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city ... Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners. Winston Churchill citiesnumberschildren It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word. Winston Churchill spoken-wordmastersambition It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them. Winston Churchill principleseasy Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. Winston Churchill affairpoliticspolitical The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere. Winston Churchill complaininglifeworld It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told. Winston Churchill secretwonderfulmen Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones. Winston Churchill realactionmight Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug. Winston Churchill dogrunningfriendship
