Winston S. Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

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

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

A man must choose his own way of life, and_it is only by following out one__ own bent that there can be the really harmonious life._ [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

A joke is a very serious thing.