Quotes to inspire and reflect

Do not adultery commit;

Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not strive

How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!

Thou shalt have one God only; who

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Cum dignitate otium.

The sinews of war, unlimited money.

Civis Romanus sum.

How long will you abuse our patience, Catiline?

O tempora, O mores!

Summum bonum.

’Ipse dixit.’ ‘Ipse’ autem erat Pyhagoras.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

Salus populi suprema est lex.

A sheep in sheep’s clothing.

NANCY ASTOR : If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.

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

In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

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

In defeat unbeatable: in victory unbearable. of Lord Montgomery

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

Naval tradition?. Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers, and the lash.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

National compulsory insurance for all classes for all purposes from the cradle to the grave.

We make this wide encircling movement in the Mediterranean, having for its primary object the recovery of the command of that vital sea, but also having for its object the exposure of the underbelly of the Axis, especially Italy, to heavy attack.

When I warned them [the French Government] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, ‘In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.’ Some chicken! Some neck!

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’

What is our aim? … Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

What is our policy? … to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

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

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

[The Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.