Winston Churchill Quotes About Time

• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Lost Love, Future

  "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill".

• Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

  Winston Churchill

  Sarcastic, Time, Memories

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

• If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

• 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.

• It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Sarcastic, Time

• Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Time, Freedom

  Speech in House of Commons, 11 Nov. 1947

• This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Time, Not Giving Up

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

• The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Moving, Learning

  A radio speech broadcast from London to America on receiving the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws of the University of Rochester, June 16, 1941.

• I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Art, Reality

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

• We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Military, Oats

• Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Habit

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

• Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, War, Night

  The Second World War vol. 1 (1948)

• It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Bystanders, Hands

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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