"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations"
"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right"
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried"
"India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator"
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies"
"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times"
"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"
"In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice"
"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"
"If you're going through hell, keep going"
"No crime is so great as daring to excel"
""No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again"
"Never, never, never give up"
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room"
"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"
"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"
"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me"
"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words"
"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk"
"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns"
"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter"
"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"
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals"
"He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire"
"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"
"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"
"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others"
"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put"
"Eating words has never given me indigestion"
"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old"
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won"
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him"
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"
"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"
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on"
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen"
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others"
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me"
"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all"
"Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat"
"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter"
"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham"
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last"
"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed"
