Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

—Winston Churchill

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...

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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

—Winston Churchill

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

—Winston Churchill

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

—Winston Churchill

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

—Winston Churchill

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

—Winston Churchill

More quotations tagged with “language”

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

—Samuel Johnson

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

—Rita Mae Brown

Words have a longer life than deeds.

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