Winston Churchill Quotes About Books

• Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Writing, Adventure

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

• If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Fall, Eye

• Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Friendship, Book, Writing

  Sir Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The gathering storm”, Houghton Mifflin Company

• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Book, Teaching

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

  Winston Churchill

  Memories, Book, Men

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

• Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Book, Party

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.613, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Book, Fall

  Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

• Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Book, Mean

• Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Moses, Boast

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Adherence, Should

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

• I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Years, Drawing

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

• Writing a book is an adventure.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Writing, Adventure

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

• Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Want, Made

• I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Evening Light, Blue

  Winston Churchill (2012). “The Crossing”, p.6, The Floating Press

• When a new book appears one should read an old one.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Should, New Books

  Wolfgang Mieder, Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

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