I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am a prod.
Nationalization of industry is the doom of trade unionism.
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
Craft is common both to skill and deceit.
Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured.
The First Sea Lord moves the fleet. No one else moves it.
We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.
I never take pleasure in human woe.
One ought to be just before one is generous.
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
Let us learn our lessons.
The object of Parliament is to substitute arguments for fisticuffs.
Is [this coalition] to be above party Government or below party Government?
Each one [of the neutral nations] hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.
How few men are strong enough to stand against the prevailing currents of opinion!
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.
No technical knowledge can outweigh knowledge of the humanities.
Well it may be said, well it was said, that the prerogatives of the Crown have become privileges of the people.
Honours should go where death and danger go.
It's a long way to Tipperary, but a visit there is sometimes irresistible.
If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
Frightfulness is not a remedy known to the British pharmacopoeia.
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.
The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual.'
I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.
My Rt. Hon. Friend [Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood] has not been long enough in office to grow a guilty conscience.
--The British people have always been superior to the British climate.
…I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it for a time parts company with reality.
Mr. Speaker, let us envisage—an unpleasant and overworked word.
Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.
Great and impressive are the effects of contrast.
You cannot cure cancer by a majority. What is needed is a remedy.”
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
I can well understand the Hon. Member speaking for practice, which he badly needs.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
One can usually put one's thoughts better in ones own words.
Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.
You must look at facts, because they look at you.
Kites rise highest against the wind not with it.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
When you get to the end of your luck, there is a comfortable feeling you have got to the bottom.
Our task is not only to win the battle—but to win the war.
Above all, my dear friend, do not be vexed or discouraged. We are on the stage of history.
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.
An announcement of a prospective surplus is always a milestone in a budget….
The British people have taken for themselves this motto: 'Business carried on as usual during alterations on the map of Europe.'
Time and money are largely interchangeable terms.
Sometimes when fortune scowls most spitefully, she is preparing her most dazzling gifts.
War never pays its dividends in cash on the money it costs.
It is no part of my case that I am always right.
…I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught….
The Hon. Member is never lucky in the coincidence of his facts with the truth.
It is not in our power to anticipate our destiny.
The recognition of their language is precious to a small people.
[I object] on principle to doing by legislation what properly belongs to charity.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
If you destroy a free market you create a black market.
There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do… But this principle… has its exceptions.
A fanatic is someone who won’t change his mind, and wont change the subject
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
All wisdom is not new wisdom.
There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.
I think of France, anxious, peace-loving, pacifist to the core, but armed to the teeth…
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past...
God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.
Patience and good temper accomplish much.
Bolshevism is a great evil, but it has arisen out of great social evils.
In wartime, Truth is so precious that she should always be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
War is very cruel. It goes on for so long.
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past...
At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.
The usefulness of a naval invention ceases when it is enjoyed by everyone else.
We must always be ready to make sacrifices for the great causes; only in that way shall we live to keep our souls alive.
Chivalrous gallantry is not among the peculiar characteristics of excited democracy.
Language is a great bridge.
Life, which is so complicated and difficult in great matters, nearly always presents itself in simple terms.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
I can well understand the Hon. Member speaking for practice,which he badly needs.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
…soldiers must die, but by their death they nourish the nation which gave them birth.
In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill.
The British Constitution is mainly British common sense.
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty….
