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| George Bernard Shaw once sent two tickets to the opening night of one of his plays to Winston Churchill with the following note: "Bring a friend, if you have one." Churchill wrote back, returning the two tickets and excused himself as he had a previous engagement. He also attached the following: "Please send me two tickets for the next night, if there is one." | |
| Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it. -- Winston Churchill | |
| A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill | |
| "Never give in. Never give in. Never. Never. Never." -- Winston Churchill | |
| A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -- Winston Churchill | |
| A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. -- Sir Winston Churchill, 1952 | |
| Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. -- Winston Churchill | |
| Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. -- Winston Churchill | |
| I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form. -- Winston Churchill, 1903 | |
| If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. -- Winston Churchill | |
| In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used to frequently take my advice. -- Winston Churchill | |
| Indomitable in retreat; invincible in advance; insufferable in victory. -- Winston Churchill, on General Montgomery | |
| "MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts." -- Winston Churchill | |
| Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. -- Winston Churchill Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. -- F.J. Raymond | |
| Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once. -- Winston Churchill | |
| Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. -- Winston Churchill | |
| [Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Winston Churchill | |
| There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true. -- Winston Churchill | |
| There but for the grace of God, goes God. -- Winston Churchill, speaking of Sir Stafford Cripps. | |
| We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm. -- Winston Churchill | |
| When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. -- Winston Churchill, on formal declarations of war | |
| Lady Astor was giving a costume ball and Winston Churchill asked her what disguise she would recommend for him. She replied, "Why don't you come sober, Mr. Prime Minister?" | |
| The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it. -- Winston Churchill | |
| Woman on Street: Sir, you are drunk; very, very drunk. Winston Churchill: Madame, you are ugly; very, very ugly. I shall be sober in the morning. | |
| This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. -- Winston Churchill | |
| The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. -- Winston Churchill, 1942 | |
| I had a feeling once about mathematics -- that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me -- the Byss and the Abyss. I saw -- as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show -- a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why tergiversation was inevitable -- but it was after dinner and I let it go. -- Winston Churchill | |
| Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -- Winston Churchill | |
| I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. -- Winston Churchill | |
| "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." -- Winston Churchill | |
