2007-09-05 12:11:07 · 9 answers · asked by jimschem 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Where can I find more?
2007-09-05 12:11:45 · update #1
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." Winston Churchill
2007-09-05 15:19:52 · answer #1 · answered by lightningelemental 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may more forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their Finest Hour.'
—House of Commons, 18 June 1940, following the collapse of France.
Winston Churchill
2007-09-05 19:17:29 · answer #2 · answered by Captain Jack ® 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't remember the exact words of the quote, but Churchill was giving a pep talk to British citizens about the attack of the Germans, and he used the words "blood, sweat and tears".
2007-09-05 19:18:42 · answer #3 · answered by nean 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lady Astor (first woman MP in the House of Commons): "Mr Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your tea."
Winston (getting unsteadily to his feet): "Madam, if I were your husband ... I'd drink it."
2007-09-05 19:25:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Regarding his view of how stupid the English rule is that you may not end a sentence with a preposition:
This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
W. Churchill
2007-09-05 19:14:23 · answer #5 · answered by KL 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Lady Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
Winston Churchill: "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
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2007-09-05 19:20:29 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
When, at a function of some sort, a lady accused him of being drunk he responded, "True, madam, but tomorrow I shall be sober while you will still be ugly."
2007-09-05 19:26:15 · answer #7 · answered by Cappo359 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
2007-09-05 21:35:27 · answer #8 · answered by Carol M 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
2007-09-05 19:14:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋