Winston Churchill: Citáty v angličtine (page 8)

“My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.”

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..”

“When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”

“Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”

“I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words”

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.”

“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War.”

“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”

“We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”

“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement …”

“Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.”

“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”

“When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.”

“You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.”

“There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.”

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

“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
people.”

“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”