Winston Churchill Quotes, Self Quotes, Expression Quotes

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

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Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

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We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.

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I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

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Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

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I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

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Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

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I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

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Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.

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Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

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It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

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If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

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You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

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You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

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I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

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It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

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The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

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