Winston Churchill Quotes About Sleep

• Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price

  Winston Churchill

  Sleep, Thinking, Pounds

• I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

  Winston Churchill

  Sleep, Two, Smoking

• Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

  Winston Churchill

  Good Night, Morning, War

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.363, Da Capo Press

• 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”

• The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed.

  Winston Churchill

  Loyalty, Mistake, Sleep

  'The Second World War' vol. 2 (1949) ch. 1

• I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

  Winston Churchill

  Sleep, Fire, Bed

  Sir Winston Churchill (1950). “The Grand Alliance”, p.540, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

  Winston Churchill

  Sleep, Lunch, Clothes

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.999, RosettaBooks

• We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Sleep, Eight

  Winston Churchill (1996). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, Scribner

• A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

  Winston Churchill

  Sleep, Men, Dawn

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