356 quotes
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898)
Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.
This Treasury paper, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Churchill by Himself (2008)
You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty.
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.
We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people.
The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.
I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.
The wars fanned the wings of science, and science brought to mankind a thousand blessings, a thousand problems and a thousand perils.
The new fire is laid, but the particular kind of match is missing.
One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Take away that pudding – it has no theme.
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject (2010)
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
Everyone can see how communism rots the soul of a nation. How it makes it abject in peace and proves it abominable in war.
The Second World War (1939)
The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.
The Second World War (1939)
I then had one of the three or four long intimate conversations with him which are all I can boast.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production.
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)