Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.