Winston Churchill Quotes About Fame

• And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Men, Law

  Sir Winston Churchill, Timothy Baker (1968). “The island race”

• The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Home, Independent

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.114, A&C Black

• A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

  Winston Churchill

  Shadow, Glitter, Reputation

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

• I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

  Winston Churchill

  Dark, Islands, Fame

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.146, A&C Black

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