Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.