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Quotes from My Early Life: A Roving Commission — Winston Churchill

1874–1965 England

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She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.

My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.

My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.

My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

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)

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)

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.

My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk — and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

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