Do you know a Winston Churchill quote? Sir Winston Churchill was the greatest orator of his day. The sublime beauty of his finest wartime speeches inspired a nation. Chances are you will know a sentence or two of one of those stirring Churchill speeches of May-June 1940.
But equally likely your favorite Winston Churchill quote may be one of his witty aphorisms, jokes, puns or cutting put downs. Churchill was a man for whom humour was an essential part of life. Witty quotes tend to be attributed to the genuinely witty even if they did not actually utter them. Like Oscar Wilde or George Bernard Shaw, Churchill may well have "benefited" from this phenomenon - I apologise if I have mis-quoted or mis-attributed any of the quotes on this site.
Not every Winston Churchill quote is full of humour however. In the cut and thrust of debate in the House of Commons he could be wickedly savage. Nor did he suffer fools gladly in his private life!
This is a collection of my favorite Winston Churchill quotes. It is a personal selection and I have divided them up into loose topics to make finding your favorite easier.
Churchill quote: On himself
Churchill quote: On others
Churchill quote: On politics
Churchill quote: Epigrams
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations" wrote Churchill in My Early Life in 1930. Indeed, Churchill himself who never claimed to be a particularly educated man devoured the book Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and found it inspired him to study the works of great men in more detail.
I hope your enjoyment when reading of a Winston Churchill quote or two will inspire you to read more of THE Great Man! Enjoy...
