A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.

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

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

This paper by its very length defends itself against the risk of being read.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans. Almost perfectly describes World War I, which occured well after his death.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.