Winston Churchill
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23 quotes we’ve traced to Winston Churchill
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
Verified“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets”
Verified“Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”
Attributed“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject, short enough to create interest”
Disputed“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on”
Disputed“Any Time You See Anything Big and Working Well, You Want To Take It Over”
Disputed“Blood, sweat and tears”
Disputed“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others”
Disputed“History is written by the victors”
Disputed“If food is so scarce, why hasn't Gandhi died yet?”
Disputed“If you're going through hell, keep going”
Disputed“It Will Take Them Ten Years to Prove Me Wrong”
Disputed“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened”
Disputed“Never let a good crisis go to waste”
Disputed“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
Disputed“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”
Disputed“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
Disputed“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip”
Disputed“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter”
Disputed“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty”
Disputed“Then gentlemen, what are we fighting for?”
Disputed“This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put”
Disputed“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give”
DisputedNot actually Winston Churchill
Often misattributed to Winston Churchill
Famous lines widely pinned on Winston Churchill that we’ve traced to someone else.
“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject, short enough to create interest”
actually Unknown
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on”
actually Unknown — popularly credited to Churchill
“Americans will always do the right thing, after exhausting all the alternatives”
actually Abba Eban
“Any Time You See Anything Big and Working Well, You Want To Take It Over”
actually Unknown
“Continuous Effort — Not Strength or Intelligence — Is the Key to Unlocking and Using Our Potential”
actually Liane Cordes
“History is written by the victors”
actually Unknown
“If food is so scarce, why hasn't Gandhi died yet?”
actually Archibald Wavell
“If you're going through hell, keep going”
actually Unknown / anonymous origin
“It Will Take Them Ten Years to Prove Me Wrong”
actually Unknown
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened”
actually Unknown
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”
actually Rahm Emanuel
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
actually Origin unknown (an anonymous maxim)
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”
actually Unknown (anonymous origin)
“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts”
actually Anonymous advertising copywriter
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
actually Origin unknown (not Churchill)
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip”
actually Unknown
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter”
actually Unknown
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty”
actually Unknown
“Then gentlemen, what are we fighting for?”
actually Unknown
“This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put”
actually Unknown
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”
actually Unknown (anonymous)
“When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?”
actually John Maynard Keynes
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life”
actually Ed Greenwood
“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give”
actually Unknown
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