BiographyType: British politician,soldier, journalist, historian, author, painter Born: 30 November 1874 Died: 24 January 1965 (aged 90) Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army. A prolific author, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his own historical writings, "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." |
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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