We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, ...
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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, ...
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How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
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Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
Golf is a game whose aim it is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singu...
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Golf is a game whose aim it is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
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[(speech, 30 March 1940)] Although the fate of Poland stares them in the face, there are thoughtless...
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[(speech, 30 March 1940)] Although the fate of Poland stares them in the face, there are thoughtless dilettanti or purblind wordlings who sometimes ask us, "What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer, "If we left off fighting you would soon find out!"
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I like a man who grins when he fights.
I like a man who grins when he fights.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not co...
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We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. I made ve...
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How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. I made very little progress in my lessons, and none at all at games. I counted the days and the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home from this hateful servitude and range my soldiers in line of battle on the nursery floor. The greatest pleasure I had in those days was reading. When I was nine and a half my father gave me "Treasure Island", and I remember the delight with which I devoured it. My teachers saw me at once backward and precocious, reading books beyond my years and yet at the bottom of the form. They were offended. They had large resources of compulsion at their disposal, but I was stubborn. Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
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[on the Soviet Union] It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
[on the Soviet Union] It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
[commenting on the Battle of Britain] Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so ma...
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[commenting on the Battle of Britain] Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent v...
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.
[his view on never finishing a sentence with a preposition] Up with this stupidity I will not put.
[his view on never finishing a sentence with a preposition] Up with this stupidity I will not put.
Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.
Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.
[upon hearing of the love affair between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend] What a delightful mat...
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[upon hearing of the love affair between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend] What a delightful match. A lovely young royal lady married to a gallant young airman, safe from the perils and horrors of war.
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A socialist policy is abhorrent to British ideas on freedom. A socialist state could not afford to s...
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A socialist policy is abhorrent to British ideas on freedom. A socialist state could not afford to suffer opposition--no socialist system can be established without a political police.
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Create a list » User Lists Related lists from IMDb users British Knights a list of 276 pe...
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Create a list » User Lists Related lists from IMDb users British Knights a list of 276 people created 07 Oct 2012 1000 Iconic Figures a list of 8398 people created 22 Jan 2016 People featured in the book "Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War" by Mark Harris a list of 61 people created 23 Mar 2016 The Celebritie Graveyard a list of 1293 people created 5 months ago Served In The Armed Forces a list of 28 people created 3 months ago See all related lists »
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[responding to an accusation that he was conceived out of wedlock] Although present on the occasion,...
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[responding to an accusation that he was conceived out of wedlock] Although present on the occasion, I have no recollection of the events leading up to it.
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[on his deathbed] I'm so bored with it all.
[on his deathbed] I'm so bored with it all.
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake o...
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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
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Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a ...
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Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
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It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe ...
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It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
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Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master...
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Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
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We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on th...
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We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender.
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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