Churchill Quotations

Below, Churchill 1874–1965) comments on human nature, society, and the world in general.

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1. The most amusing tend to grow strong

You cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing. - Winston Churchill

Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope. - Winston Churchill

Try to be right. - Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing. - Winston Churchill (2)

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. - Winston Churchill on formal declaration of war]

2. The idea that custum makes perfect is erroneous and fanatic

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. - Winston Churchill (3)

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. - Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9] (4)

3. Wise men fight with grins and searching eyes

I am easily satisfied with the very best. - Winston Churchill ✪ 

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

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

We must beware of needless innovation. - Winston Churchill

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill, speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954]

So

One of the most amusing idea is that adhering to customs talks of no fights.