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"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.  
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subjec...  
A joke is a very serious thing.  
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to g...  
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees...  
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tom...  
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then a...  
Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a ...  
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel hi...  
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single...  
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I fee...  
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.  
Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the ...  
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.  
At every crisis the Kaiser crumpled. In defeat he fled; in revolution ...  
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.  
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only...  
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, th...  
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a de...  
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best...  
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.  
Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about.  
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it...  
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what i...  
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the sa...  
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will redu...  
Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and lovi...  
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. An...  
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.  
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from sa...  
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy a...  
Eating words has never given me indigestion.  
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will...  
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.  
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of mi...  
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parti...  
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with...  
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain...  
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.  
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.  
He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.  
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.   History
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the re...  
I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to ...  
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better pol...  
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with ...  
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.  
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.  
I am bored with it all.  
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if an...   Business
I am easily satisfied with the very best.  
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs trea...  
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politici...  
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the g...  
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped ...  
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the...  
I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British se...  
I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that hum...  
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for peo...  
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I ...  
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.  
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.  
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.  
I like a man who grins when he fights.  
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will ...  
I never worry about action, but only inaction.  
I shall always be glad to have seen it-for the same reason Papa gave f...  
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed ...  
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.  
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to ...  
If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'...  
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I w...  
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of ...  
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we h...  
If you are going through hell, keep going.  
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is m...  
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clev...  
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the l...   Politics
If you're going through hell, keep going.  
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must...  
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take ...  
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme ha...  
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.  
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by...  
It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as ...  
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except...  
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be r...  
It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages...  
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.  
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of d...  
It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minist...  
It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.  
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than yo...  
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.  
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed ...  
It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a s...  
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had t...  
It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed i...  
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.  
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.  
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves tha...  
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he ...  
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this wo...   Government
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champ...  
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themsel...  
Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory...  
Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually man...  
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.  
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.  
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my...  
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars...  
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have br...  
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing, ...  
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in th...  
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so...  
Never, never, never give up.  
No crime is so great as daring to excel.  
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.  
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searc...  
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of Pre...  
No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his o...  
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than th...  
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person o...  
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.  
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But ...  
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.  
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to r...  
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.  
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be respons...  
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like be...  
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will y...  
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at...  
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war ...  
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.  
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, ...  
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church w...  
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.  
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence wit...  
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.  
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the ...  
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.   Nature
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot....  
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be s...  
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of state...  
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enth...   Success
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.   Success
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to conti...  
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.  
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have o...  
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with...   Government
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people...  
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.  
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely ...  
The first quality that is needed is audacity.  
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's airc...  
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation...  
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; t...  
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the...  
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its be...  
The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, ...  
The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual."  
The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle ...  
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can brea...  
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees ...  
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose ...  
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.  
The price of greatness is responsibility.  
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but t...  
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in w...  
The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are n...  
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.  
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may der...  
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable imp...  
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst ...  
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinn...  
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into ...  
There is no such thing as a good tax.  
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opin...  
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.  
There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement around our tabl...  
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our ...  
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adam...  
They told me that Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served...  
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.  
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of be...  
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those wh...  
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destr...  
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.  
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.  
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not kn...  
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazar...  
Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deri...  
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however ...  
War is a catalouge of blunders.  
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. I...  
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.  
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.  
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.  
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.  
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.   Government
We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logi...  
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves u...  
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight o...  
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspirat...  
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.  
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.  
We will have no truce or parlay with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang ...  
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack...  
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old...  
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.  
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.  
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.  
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom...  
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human li...  
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without...  
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordina...  
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amus...  
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they'v...  
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, some...  
[Clement Attle is] a sheep in sheep's clothing.