Quotes of Churchill - somelinesforyou

“ We still have some work to do, but we're getting there,... There are quite a few good teams in our league this year, so it should be interesting. Livonia Stevenson, obviously, will be up there along with Northville, which has some pretty nice talent coming back… ”

- Chuck Olson

“ It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb. ”

- William Manchester

“ Churchill Downs is also a nice pick-up. ”

- Steven King

“ I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent. ”

- Richard Darman

“ What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime. ”

- Michael Howard

“ The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ”

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

“ If you are going through hell, keep going. ”

- Unknown

“ Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself. ”

- William Manchester

“ Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today. ”

- James C. Humes

“ I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. ”

- Arthur James Balfour

“ Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it". ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Lady Astor to Churchill "Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison". ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober". ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Bessie Braddock to Churchill "Winston, your drunk!". ”

- Winston Churchill

“ When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues. ”

- Lady Constance Lytton

“ I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. ”

- Arthur James Balfour
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