Winston Churchill Quotes, Eye Quotes, Effort Quotes

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

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Good and great are seldom in the same man.

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When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

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It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

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Science should be on tap, not on top.

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Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none.

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We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

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

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The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

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I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.

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My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.

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Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

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Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

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Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

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

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I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

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Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

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We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

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