Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Strive to maintain appearances, and the world will give you credit for everything else.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Although personally I am pleased that explosives have been invented, I believe we should not improve them.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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I am optimistic. It doesn't seem very useful to be anything else.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The politician becomes a statesman when he starts to think about the next generations and not the next elections.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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If the present tries to judge the past, it will lose the future.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The further back you can look, the further ahead you will see.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal. What counts is the courage to continue.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equitable distribution of misery.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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There are three types of people; those who worry themselves to death, those who work themselves to death, and those who bore themselves to death.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Dictatorship, fetishistic devotion to one man, is an ephemeral thing, a state of society in which one cannot express one's own thoughts, in which children denounce their parents to the police; such a state cannot last long.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Quotations, when etched into our memory, suggest original thoughts to us; moreover, they awaken in us the desire to read the authors from whom they have been taken.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Personally, I am always willing to learn, although I don't always like to be given lessons.