Winston Churchill Quotes

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Never, never, never give up.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.