Top 15 Winston Churchill Quotes

British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, though he was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

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Birth Name: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Also Known As: The pug • The Old Lion

Alternative Names: Winston Spencer Churchill • Charles Maurin • David Winter • The Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill • Colonel Warden • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill • Sir Leonard Spencer • Sir Winston Churchill • Sir Winston Spencer Churchill • Mr Green • The Right Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill • The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill • The Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill • Churchill • Winston S. Churchill • Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

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Engraved portrait of Winston Churchill, facing left

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

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

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

Never, never, never give in!

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

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

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.