Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Winston Churchill
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
Autobiographer
Biographer
Historian
Journalist
Military Officer
Painter
Politician
Screenwriter
Statesman
Statesperson
Boston
Massachusetts
Winston Spencer Churchill
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Lord)
Charles Maurin
David Winter
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
Colonel Warden
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Winston
Sir Churchill
Sir Leonard Spencer
Winston Leonard Spencer
Sir Churchill
Winston Churchill (Sir)
Sir W
Folly
Ideals
Morality
Military
Law
Inspirational
Intolerant
Costly
Idealism
More quotes by Winston Churchill
The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.
Winston Churchill
There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.
Winston Churchill
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.
Winston Churchill
No sky is heavy if the heart be light
Winston Churchill
Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.
Winston Churchill
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill
I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.
Winston Churchill
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.
Winston Churchill
Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
Winston Churchill
May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.
Winston Churchill
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.
Winston Churchill
In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.
Winston Churchill
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill
Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.
Winston Churchill
Watch your habits, they determine your character.
Winston Churchill
There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange
Winston Churchill
Victory is only wrested by running risks.
Winston Churchill
I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.
Winston Churchill
Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
Winston Churchill
