Winston Churchill Quotes About Water

• The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Scotch, Water

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

• Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.

  Winston Churchill

  Sweet, Silly, Heart

• Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Cities, Water

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

• I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Eye, Men

  Winston Churchill's statement as President of the Air Council in War Office Departmental Minute (the original document is in the collection of Churchill Papers 16/16 at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge), May 12, 1919.

• I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

  Winston Churchill

  Depression, Water, Bipolar

• The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Party, Years

  "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches". Book by Robert Rhodes James, vol. 8, p. 8,326, 1974.

• In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Drinking, Water

• ...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Water, Buckets

  Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.776, Simon and Schuster

• The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Cat, Water Bottles

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

• We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Cat, Land

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

• I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Evening Light, Blue

  Winston Churchill (2012). “The Crossing”, p.6, The Floating Press

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