Winston Churchill Quotes - Page 32

• 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.

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  Depression, Water, Bipolar

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• The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

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  Horse, Progress, Milestone

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

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• I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

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  Curiosity, Taught, Curious

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• We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.

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  Order, Wings, Growing

  Winston Churchill (1942). “Thoughts and Adventures”

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• It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

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  Heart, Good Luck, Race

  Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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• Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

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  Drinking, Beer, Wife

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• There is no such thing as a good tax.

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  Business, Taxes Funny, Income Tax

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• One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

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  Men, Play, Would Be

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

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  Taken, Political, Events

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Onwards to Victory”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

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  Tired, People, Significant

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• The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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  Gratitude, War, Home

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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• 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.

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  Reflection, Orange, Keys

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

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• Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

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  Science, Men, Comprehension

  Speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 31 March (1949)

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• At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

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  Political, Soul, Depth

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

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• Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

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  Garden, Growth, Problem

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.

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  Stars, Night, Race

  Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour, BBC Radio Broadcast 19 May 1940

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• The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.

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  Light, Land, Evil

  Winston Churchill (1969). “History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill”

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• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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  War, Iron, History

  Address at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., 5 Mar. 1946.

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• We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

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  Why Not, Made, Ready

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.618, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

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  Soul, Deathless

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• There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

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  Common Sense, Imagination, Enemy

  Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

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  Law, Safety, Aviation

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• If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.

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  Mean, Doe, Ifs

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• Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

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  Analogies, Weapons, Formidable

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• One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

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  Hyphens, Regard, Avoided

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