Churchillisms

I was listening to someone quote Winston Churchill for the upteenth time, and I thought to myself, "I really should make it a priority to read a biography on him." Well, my search in the library network revealed all too many choices, so I settled on reading through a collection of his quotes.

Compiled by Richard M. Langworth, The Definitive Wit of Winston Churchill contains some of Churchill's more popular quotes on politics, war, and drinking, but also some of his lesser known quotes and stories.

Here are my favorites:

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others."

"Dangers which are warded off and difficulties which are overcome before they reach a crisis are utterly unrecognised. Eaten bread is soon forgotten."

"...how little we should worry about anything except doing our best."

"So we have to dispense with the indispensable."

"Do not quit the heights."

"Ideas acquire a momentum of their own."

"...never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."

"Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library."

"There is all the difference in the world between a man who knocks you down and a man who leaves you alone."

About Lady Randolph Churchill: "The wine of life was in her veins. Sorrows and storms were conquered by her nature and on the whole it was a life of sunshine."

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