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Last updated on November 12, 2024.
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.
... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement. — © Winston Churchill
... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.
Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.
I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.
It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.
He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.
Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.
Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.
In war, truth is often the first casualty.
I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.
Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.
If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both
Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.
Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.
If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.
All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office. — © Winston Churchill
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.
The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.
I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.
Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.
I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.
Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.
Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.
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