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Misattributed quotes — Winston Churchill

1874–1965 England

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32 quotes

The heaviest cross I have to bear is the Cross of Lorraine.

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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Germany's unforgivable crime before WW2 was its attempt to loosen its economy out of the world trade system and to build up an own exchange system from which the world-finance couldn't profit anymore.

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We have slaughtered the wrong pig.

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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results

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History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

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A joke is a very serious thing.

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Gentlemen, We Have Run Out Of Money; Now We Have to Think

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George Bernard Shaw is said to have told W.S.C.:
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend—if you have one.
W.S.C. to G.B.S.:
Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second—if there is one.

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Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles.

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The Balkans produce more history than they can consume (also reported in the form: The peoples of the Balkans produce more history than they can consume, and the weight of their past lies oppressively on their present.)

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Lady Nancy Astor: If I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee.
Churchill: If I were your husband I'd drink it.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Winston Churchill (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.