Winston Churchill Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Winston Churchill:

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Winston Churchill

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Winston Churchill

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Winston Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Winston Churchill

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.

Winston Churchill

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Winston Churchill

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Winston Churchill

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Winston Churchill

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Winston Churchill

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Winston Churchill

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Winston Churchill

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Winston Churchill