Poems List

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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I like a man who grins when he fights.
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NANCY ASTOR : If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!

CHURCHILL : And if I were your husband I would drink it.

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A sheep in sheep’s clothing.

of Clement Attlee

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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.

describing the qualifications desirable in a prospective politician

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

attributed, in M. Gilbert Never Despair (1988)

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

The Second World War (1950) vol. 3, ch. 20

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

The World Crisis (1927) pt. 1, ch. 5

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

The Second World War vol. 1 (1948) epigraph, which according to Edward Marsh in A Number of People (1939), occurred to Churchill shortly after the conclusion of the First World War

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

My Early Life (1930) ch. 9

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