Misattributed Winston Churchill Quotes

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around. ~ Francis Bacon

My education was interrupted only by my schooling. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die. ~ Winston Churchill

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water. ~ Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. ~ Winston S. Churchill

And your Winston Churchill says such good things about the pilots (the Polish ones, too). ~ Louise Walters

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands. ~ Winston Churchill

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical. ~ Winston Churchill

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan. ~ Winston Churchill

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes. ~ Winston S. Churchill

When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian, and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill
whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains quite simply, a great man. ~ Geoffrey Elton

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war. ~ George Orwell

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. ~ Winston Churchill

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation. ~ Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill said, "We shape our buildings and then they shape us."23 We make our technologies, and they, in turn, shape us. ~ Sherry Turkle

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. ~ Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. ~ Winston Churchill

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal. ~ Winston Churchill

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. ~ Winston Churchill

The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants. ~ Winston Churchill

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism. ~ Winston Churchill

Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII. ~ A.E. Samaan

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. ~ Winston S. Churchill

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

Some of my cousins who had the great advantage of University education used to tease me with arguments to prove that nothing has any existence except what we think of it. The whole creation is but a dream; all phenomena are imaginary. You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist. These amusing mental acrobatics are all right to play with. They are perfectly harmless and perfectly useless. I warn my younger readers only to treat them as a game. The metaphysicians will have the last word and defy you to disprove their absurd propositions. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson. ~ Winston S. Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place. ~ Winston S. Churchill

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. ~ Winston Churchill

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. ~ Winston Churchill

One incident preserved by General Ismay in an apocryphal and somewhat lively form may be allowed to lighten the narrative. His orderly, a Royal Marine, was shown the sights of Moscow by one of the Intourist guides. "This," said the Russian, "is the Eden Hotel, formerly Ribbentrop Hotel. Here is Churchill Street, formerly Hitler Street. Here is the Beaverbrook railway station, formerly Goering railway station. Will you have a cigarette, comrade?" The Marine replied, "Thank you, comrade, formerly bastard!" This tale, though jocular, illustrates none the less the strange atmosphere of these meetings. ~ Winston S. Churchill

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore. ~ Winston Churchill

Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodile in the world is Microsoft, and everybody is busy sucking up to it. ~ John Naughton

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression. ~ Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through. ~ Winston Churchill

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything. ~ Winston Churchill

The Home Secretary, a young man of thirty-seven, impossible to ignore, who, from his inappropriate post, had pelted the Prime Minister during the crisis with ideas on naval and military strategy, all of them quite sound, had produced an astonishingly accurate prediction of the future course of the fighting, and who had no doubts whatever about what needed to be done. The Home Secretary was Winston Churchill. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it. ~ Winston Churchill

Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired. ~ Winston Churchill

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews ~ Winston Churchill

All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill ~ Stuart Finlay

In the twelve months from June, 1940, to June, 1941, our civilian casualties were 43,381 killed and 50,856 seriously injured, a total of 94,237. Except for ~ Winston S. Churchill

The actor Richard Burton once wrote an article for the New York Times about his experience playing the role of Winston Churchill in a television drama:
"In the course of preparing myself ... I realized afresh that I hate Churchill and all of his kind. I hate them virulently. They have stalked down the corridors of endless power all through history ... What man of sanity would say on hearing of the atrocities committed by the Japanese against British and Anzac prisoners of war, 'We shall wipe them out, everyone of them, men, women, and children. There shall not be a Japanese left on the face of the earth? Such simple
minded cravings for revenge leave me with a horrified but reluctant awe for such single
minded and merciless ferocity."
~ Richard Francis Burton

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. ~ Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918 ... ~ Winston Churchill

Amid increasing chaos, here lay the potential dominants. Much action and the play of forces even on a huge scale and with enormous material effects is often irrelevant, and counts for little or nothing in the final result: but along the chain of commanding causation even the smallest events are vital. It is these which should be studied and pondered over; for in them is revealed the profound significance of human choice and the sublime responsibility of men. No one can tell that he may not some day set a stone rolling or take or neglect some ordinary step which in its consequences will alter the history of the world. ~ Winston S. Churchill

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide. ~ Winston Churchill

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. ~ Winston Churchill

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments. ~ Winston Churchill