Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.
You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.
Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.
Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.
Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.
Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.
Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.
The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.
Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.
If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.