Winston Churchill1874–1965The quotations of
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer
1874–1965
90 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Politics and Clever Jabs.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Speech in the House of Commons (January 23, 1948), cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 154
- Churchill ended his December 8, 1941 letter to the Japanese Ambassador, declaring that a state of war now existed between the United Kingdom and Japan, with the courtly flourish “I have the honour to be, with high consideration, Sir, Your obedient se
- The Second World War (1939–1945)
- Speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland (28 May 1948)
- From a conversational exchange with Harold Begbie, as cited in Master Workers, Begbie, Methuen & Co. (1906), p. 177.
- The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953-1959, London: Cassell (1961), p. 324, Woodford, Essex, (1959, 29 September)
- BBC radio broadcast, February 9, 1941. In The Churchill War Papers: 1941 (1993), ed. Gilbert, W.W. Norton, pp. 199–200
- Post-war years (1945–1955)
