Winston Churhill Quotes 丘吉尔名言录
海南农垦中学-材料科学与工艺
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
Winston
Churchill
A joke is a very
serious thing.
Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the
truth has a chance to get its pants
on.
Winston Churchill
A man does
what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of
obstacles and dangers and
pressures - and that is the basis of all human
morality.
Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every
opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity
in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
A politician needs the ability to
foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next
week, next month, and next year. And to have
the ability afterwards to explain
why it
didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to
kill you and fails, and then asks you not to
kill him.
Winston Churchill
All the great things are simple, and many can
be expressed in a single word:
freedom,
justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
Although
personally I am quite content with existing
explosives, I feel we must
not stand in the
path of improvement.
Winston Churchill
Although prepared for
martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one
who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him
last.
Winston Churchill
Attitude
is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
Baldwin thought
Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was
only a
greater Birmingham.
Winston
Churchill
Battles are won by
slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general,
the more
he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston
Churchill
Before Alamein
we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had
a defeat.
Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking, the short words are the
best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill
Continuous effort -
not strength or intelligence - is the key to
unlocking our
potential.
Winston
Churchill
Courage is rightly
esteemed the first of human qualities... because
it is the
quality which guarantees all
others.
Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and
speak; courage is also what it takes to
sit
down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is
necessary. It fulfils the same function as
pain in the human body. It calls attention to
an unhealthy state of things.
Winston
Churchill
Difficulties mastered are
opportunities won.
Winston Churchill
Do not let spacious plans for a new world
divert your energies from saving what
is left
of the old.
Winston Churchill
Eating words has never given me
indigestion.
Winston Churchill
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill
Everyone has his
day and some days last longer than others.
Winston Churchill
For good or for
ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression
of military power
and fleets and armies,
however vital and important, must accept a
subordinate
rank.
Winston Churchill
For my part, I consider that it will
be found much better by all parties to leave the
past to history, especially as I propose to
write that history myself.
Winston
Churchill
From Stettin in the Baltic
to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has
descended
across the Continent.
Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the
same man.
Winston Churchill
He
has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the
vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any
country can have.
Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill
History will be
kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
However beautiful
the strategy, you should occasionally look at the
results.
Winston Churchill
I
always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is
a much better policy to
prophesy after the
event has already taken place.
Winston
Churchill
I always seem to get
inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with
this great
novel land of yours which sticks up
out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill
I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything
else.
Winston Churchill
I am
certainly not one of those who need to be prodded.
In fact, if anything, I am
the prod.
Winston Churchill
I am easily
satisfied with the very best.
Winston
Churchill
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to
us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as
equals.
Winston Churchill
I am never going to have anything more
to do with politics or politicians. When
this
war is over I shall confine myself entirely to
writing and painting.
Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great
ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
I cannot
pretend to be impartial about the colours. I
rejoice with the brilliant ones,
and am
genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill
I have been
brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt
for people who
get drunk.
Winston
Churchill
I have never developed indigestion from eating
my words.
Winston Churchill
I
have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and
sweat.
Winston Churchill
I have
taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken
out of me.
Winston Churchill
I
like a man who grins when he fights.
Winston Churchill
I may be drunk,
Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you
will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only
inaction.
Winston Churchill
I
was only the servant of my country and had I, at
any moment, failed to express
her unflinching
resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once
have been rightly
cast aside.
Winston
Churchill
I'm just preparing my
impromptu remarks.
Winston Churchill
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a
favorable reference to the devil in
the House
of Commons.
Winston Churchill
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and
asked me for advice, I would have
English
Channels round every country. And the atmosphere
would be such that
anything which attempted to
fly would be set on fire.
Winston
Churchill
If the human race wishes
to have a prolonged and indefinite period of
material
prosperity, they have only got to
behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward
one another.
Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between past and
present, we shall find that we have lost
the
future.
Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
If you go on with
this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is
make the
rubble bounce.
Winston
Churchill
If you have an important
point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever.
Use a
pile driver. Hit the point once. Then
come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third
time - a tremendous whack.
Winston
Churchill
If you have ten thousand
regulations you destroy all respect for the
law.
Winston Churchill
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
In the course of my
life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must
confess
that I have always found it a
wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill
In those days he was wiser than he is
now; he used to frequently take my
advice.
Winston Churchill
In war as in
life, it is often necessary when some cherished
scheme has failed, to
take up the best
alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to
work for it with all
your might.
Winston Churchill
In war,
you can only be killed once, but in politics, many
times.
Winston Churchill
In
wartime, truth is so precious that she should
always be attended by a
bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
India is a
geographical term. It is no more a united nation
than the Equator.
Winston
Churchill
It has been said that
democracy is the worst form of government except
all the
others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
It
is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very
important to be right.
Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man
to read books of quotations.
Winston
Churchill
It is a mistake to look too far
ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can
be
handled at a time.
Winston
Churchill
It is always
wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further
than you can see.
Winston Churchill
It is more agreeable to have the power to give
than to receive.
Winston Churchill
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.'
You have got to succeed in doing
what is
necessary.
Winston Churchill
It was the nation and the race dwelling all
round the globe that had the lion's
heart. I
had the luck to be called upon to give the
roar.
Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind - not
with it.
Winston Churchill
Let
our advance worrying become advance thinking and
planning.
Winston Churchill
Man
will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most
of the time he will pick
himself up and
continue on.
Winston Churchill
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening
your first bottle of champagne;
knowing him
was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the
truth, but most of them pick themselves up
and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
Most people
stumble over the truth, now and then, but they
usually manage to
pick themselves up
and go on, anyway.
Winston Churchill
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man.
Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Winston Churchill
My most brilliant
achievement was my ability to be able to persuade
my wife to
marry me.
Winston
Churchill
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.
Winston
Churchill
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.
Winston Churchill
Never hold discussions
with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the
room.
Winston Churchill
Never in
the field of human conflict was so much owed by so
many to so few.
Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
Winston
Churchill
Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to
excel.
Winston Churchill
No idea
is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at
the same time a steady
eye.
Winston Churchill
No
part of the education of a politician is more
indispensable than the fighting of
elections.
Winston Churchill
Nothing can be more abhorrent to
democracy than to imprison a person or keep
him in prison because he is unpopular. This is
really the test of civilization.
Winston
Churchill
Nothing in life is so
exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill
Now this is
not the end. It is not even the beginning of the
end. But it is, perhaps,
the end of the
beginning.
Winston Churchill
One does not leave a convivial party
before closing time.
Winston Churchill
One ought never to turn one's back on a
threatened danger and try to run away
from it.
If you do that, you will double the danger. But if
you meet it promptly
and without flinching,
you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away
from
anything. Never!
Winston
Churchill
Perhaps it is better to be
irresponsible and right, than to be responsible
and
wrong.
Winston Churchill
Personally I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
Play the game for more
than you can afford to lose... only then will you
learn the
game.
Winston Churchill
Politics are very much like
war. We may even have to use poison gas at
times.
Winston Churchill
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and
quite as dangerous. In war you can only
be
killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill
Politics
is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill
Politics is the
ability to foretell what is going to happen
tomorrow, next week,
next month and next year.
And to have the ability afterwards to explain why
it
didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
Really I feel less keen about the
Army every day. I think the Church would suit
me better.
Winston Churchill
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a
mystery inside an enigma.
Winston
Churchill
Short words are best and the
old words when short are best of all.
Winston Churchill
Socialism is a
philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and
the gospel of
envy, its inherent virtue
is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston
Churchill
Solitary trees, if
they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston
Churchill
Some people regard private
enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others
look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough
people see it as a healthy horse,
pulling a
sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill
Study history, study
history. In history lies all the secrets of
statecraft.
Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to
failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Success is going
from failure to failure without a loss of
enthusiam.
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it
is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this,
that you have only to endure to conquer.
Winston Churchill
The best argument
against democracy is a five-minute conversation
with the
average voter.
Winston
Churchill
The British nation is
unique in this respect. They are the only people
who like to
be told how bad things are, who
like to be told the worst.
Winston
Churchill
The empires of the
future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
The farther
backward you can look, the farther forward you can
see.
Winston Churchill
The first
quality that is needed is audacity.
Winston Churchill
The great
defense against the air menace is to attack the
enemy's aircraft as near
as possible to their
point of departure.
Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is
the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent
virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of
miseries.
Winston Churchill
The length of this document defends
it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill
The pessimist sees
difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees
the
opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
The power of an air force is terrific when
there is nothing to oppose it.
Winston
Churchill
The power of man has grown in
every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill
The price of
greatness is responsibility.
Winston
Churchill
The problems of victory are
more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are
no
less difficult.
Winston Churchill
The reserve of modern assertions is
sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the
fear of being contradicted leads the writer to
strip himself of almost all sense and
meaning.
Winston Churchill
The short words are best, and the old
words are the best of all.
Winston
Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but
in
the end; there it is.
Winston
Churchill
There are a terrible lot
of lies going about the world, and the worst of it
is that
half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
There are two
things that are more difficult than making an
after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is
leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is
leaning away
from you.
Winston
Churchill
There is no such
thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
Winston
Churchill
There is nothing more
exhilarating than to be shot at without
result.
Winston Churchill
These are not dark days: these are great days
- the greatest days our country
has ever
lived.
Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is
time to dare and endure.
Winston
Churchill
This report, by its very
length, defends itself against the risk of being
read.
Winston Churchill 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.
Winston Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious
task of years. To destroy can be
the
thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston
Churchill
To improve is to
change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is
always better than to war-war.
Winston
Churchill
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.
Winston Churchill
True genius resides in the capacity
for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and
conflicting information.
Winston
Churchill
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.
Winston
Churchill
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.
Winston Churchill
War is mainly a catalogue of
blunders.
Winston Churchill
We
are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-
worm.
Winston Churchill
We are
asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers
of blood have flowed
to forget the feuds of a
thousand years.
Winston Churchill
We are
masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those
we let slip out.
Winston Churchill
We are stripped bare by the curse of
plenty.
Winston Churchill
We do
not covet anything from any nation except their
respect.
Winston Churchill
We
have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse
to be English.
Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get, but we make a
life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off
as if nothing had happened.
Winston
Churchill
We shall defend our
island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight
on the
beaches, we shall fight on the landing
grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in
the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we
shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of
suffering itself the means of inspiration and
survival.
Winston Churchill
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for
it.
Winston Churchill
We shape our
buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill
When I am
abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize
or attack the
government of my own country. I
make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill
When the
war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies
will begin.
Winston Churchill
When you are winning a war almost everything
that happens can be claimed to
be right and
wise.
Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing
to be polite.
Winston Churchill
Without tradition, art is a flock
of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation,
it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
You can always count on Americans to
do the right thing - after they've tried
everything else.
Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means
you've stood up for something, sometime
in
your life.
Winston Churchill