Winston Churchill Quotes About Lying

• I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, People, Watches

• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, History, Secret

  "Churchill By Himself".

• There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, People, Canada

• The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, Long, People

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

• 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

  Funny, True Friend, Lying

  Sir Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”

• Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Religious, Lying

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.516, Da Capo Press

• In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Peace, Truth

  Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference November 30, 1943; in Winston Churchill: The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338.

• Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, Energy, Down And

• Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, Exercise, Feelings

• A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, Needs, Bigger

• If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Lying, Islands

  "God & Churchill: An Interview with Jonathan Sandys and Wallace Henley". www.biblegateway.com. October 7, 2015.

• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Lying, Europe

  "The Sinews of Peace". Winston Churchill's speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, www.nato.int. March 5, 1946.

• [The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, Want, Politician

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

• In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Lying, Body

• Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, Oil, Safety

• The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, Bodyguard, Covered

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