Churchill Wartime Quotes & Sayings

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. — Winston S. Churchill

There is no working middle course in wartime. — Winston Churchill

His reply came cold and quick: "Sometimes I think that's the only reason you ever talked to me." She opened her eyes. "What?" "Everybody knows." Neal's chin was practically touching his chest - that's how not he was looking at her. — Rainbow Rowell

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work. — Brian Eno

It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit. — Hyman Rickover

Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason I'm still alive. — D.J. Molles

Recalled Sir Edward Spears, the wartime liaison between Churchill and de Gaulle. We had 15,000 French sailors at Liverpool. I went to speak to them. I tried to persuade them to continue the fighting. Impossible ... — Charles Kaiser

To find wealth, we may not need to mine for treasure if we learn how to mine between our ears. — Debasish Mridha

We learn from our struggles and hardships and we become stronger as long we don't submit to their wicked power. — Euginia Herlihy

We have a direct contact with our clothes; they're like a little house. You have to feel good and at home in what you wear and. I think that's elegance. Chanel said something like: "When a woman is badly dressed, one sees the dress, and when she is well dressed, one sees the woman." That's what I'm talking about. — Christophe Lemaitre

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature. — Winston Churchill

Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master. — Albert Parsons

I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time. — Marvin J. Wolf

We had plenty of clothes and no money. — Cesar Romero

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation. — Marianne Williamson