Quotes to inspire and reflect

Do not adultery commit;

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,

Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not strive

Thou shalt have one God only; who

How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

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

Cum dignitate otium.

The sinews of war, unlimited money.

Laws are silent in time of war.

O tempora, O mores!

Civis Romanus sum.

Summum bonum.

How long will you abuse our patience, Catiline?

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

Salus populi suprema est lex.

A sheep in sheep’s clothing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

In defeat unbeatable: in victory unbearable. of Lord Montgomery

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

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.’

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.

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.

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

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

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

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