Skip to content

Disputed quotes — Winston Churchill

1874–1965 England

← All quotes by Winston Churchill

14 quotes

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

Disputed

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Disputed

It is always wise to look ahead – but difficult to look further than you can see.

Disputed

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Disputed

You are a small exclamation mark at the end of a very long and insignificant sentence in the book of history.

Disputed

Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

Disputed

Hence, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks.

Disputed

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

Disputed

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

Disputed

I am quite satisfied with my views of India. I don’t want them disturbed by any bloody Indian.

Disputed

You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war.

Disputed

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business, as if nothing happened.

Disputed but without a documented source: Joseph Romanella (2012)

Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk, and what's more you are disgustingly drunk.
Churchill: Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and, what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.

Disputed

America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn't entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no breakdown in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany. If America had stayed out of the war, all these 'isms' wouldn't today be sweeping the continent of Europe and breaking down parliamentary government — and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over one million British, French, American, and other lives.

Disputed

Attribution

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