Winston Churchill Quotes About Pleasure

• The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Sleep, Night

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

• Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

  Winston Churchill

  Christmas, Laughter, Children

  Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The Grand Alliance”

• Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

  Winston Churchill

  Class, Two, Effort

• One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

  Winston Churchill

  Reflection, Orange, Keys

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

• Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Pleasure, Fortune

• Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Citizens, Want

• It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

  Winston Churchill

  Work, Mean, Mind

  Sir Winston Churchill (1932). “Amid these storms: thoughts and adventures”

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