Quote

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Winston Churchill

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Equaled
Incurable
Impotence
Exercising
Insatiable
Lust
Exercise
Power

More quotes by Winston Churchill

Image
Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.
Winston Churchill
Image
Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.
Winston Churchill
Image
Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.
Winston Churchill
Image
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Winston Churchill
Image
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.
Winston Churchill
Image
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
Winston Churchill
Image
I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!
Winston Churchill
Image
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.
Winston Churchill
Image
An iron curtain has descended over Europe.
Winston Churchill
Image
The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.
Winston Churchill
Image
The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.
Winston Churchill
Image
When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order.
Winston Churchill
Image
Without ships, we cannot live.
Winston Churchill
Image
At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.
Winston Churchill
Image
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston Churchill
Image
A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.
Winston Churchill
Image
The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants.
Winston Churchill
Image
Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Image
I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.
Winston Churchill
Image
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.
Winston Churchill