verified

The portrait is a remarkable example of modern art. It certainly combines force and candour.

Verified

Confirmed by our editorial team.

We traced this quote to a primary published source and confirmed the words are genuinely the author's. You can cite it with confidence.

Source

Winston Churchill, 9 Nov 1954, Westminster Hall, London

Translations

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Winston Churchill

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue o...”

“Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts …. We must not be ...”

FEATURED QUOTES

“The more you learn, the more you earn”

“The key to success is not in the will to win, but in the will to prepare to win.”

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength ”

“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

“The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence”

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude”

“You make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things”

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”