Randolph Churchill Quotes & Sayings

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. — Lady Randolph Churchill

If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale. — Lord Randolph Churchill

What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow. — Lady Randolph Churchill

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. — Lady Randolph Churchill

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light. — Lady Randolph Churchill

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery. — Lord Randolph Churchill

I never could make out what those damned dots meant. — Lord Randolph Churchill

Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman! — Lady Randolph Churchill

A great, crude, strong, young people are the Americans - like a boisterous healthy boy among enervated but well bred ladies and gentlemen . . . Picture to yourself the American people as a great lusty youth - who treads on all your sensibilities, perpetrates every possible horror of ill manners - whom neither age nor just tradition inspire with reverence - but who moves about his affairs with a good hearted freshness which may well be the envy of older nations of the earth [Winston S. Churchill to his brother Jack] — Randolph S. Churchill

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose. — Lord Randolph Churchill

I have lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia. — Lord Randolph Churchill

He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right. — Lady Randolph Churchill

Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake. — Lord Randolph Churchill

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization? — Lord Randolph Churchill

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy. — Lady Randolph Churchill

This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure. — Lord Randolph Churchill

Talking jaw is better than going to war. — Lord Randolph Churchill

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady. — Lady Randolph Churchill

Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral. — Archibald Primrose

The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes. — Lord Randolph Churchill

Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti. — Lady Randolph Churchill

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed. — Lady Randolph Churchill

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. — Lady Randolph Churchill

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible. — Lady Randolph Churchill

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral. — Lady Randolph Churchill

The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground. — Lady Randolph Churchill

At one level, the Opposition's most urgent job, between now and the next election, is to publicise the government's mistakes. Randolph Churchill once declared that oppositions should oppose everything, propose nothing and turf the government out. He was right in this fundamental respect: the opposition's job is to get elected. Intelligent oppositions have no unnecessary enemies. They make the government rather than themselves the issue by ensuring that everyone harmed by government decisions well and truly
knows about it. — Tony Abbott

Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right — Lord Randolph Churchill