He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

—Winston Churchill

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About Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between...

More quotations from Winston Churchill

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

—Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.

—Winston Churchill

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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

—Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

—Winston Churchill

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack.

—Winston Churchill

More quotations tagged with “vice”

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

—Edith Sitwell

Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness.

—Isabel Allende in My Invented Country

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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

—Peter Ustinov

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

—Tallulah Bankhead

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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