Churchill

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

—Manchester,William Raymond

The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it†an additional tactic in this strategy of defense†is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

—Galbraith,John Kenneth

Churchill on top of the wave has in himthe stuff of which tyrants are made.

—Baron

It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking toVictoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons.

—Manchester,William Raymond

When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian; and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchillöwhether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.

—Elton, Sir Geoffrey Rudolph

Say quotes from the shortstop or the Prime Minister, but quotations from the Bible, Browning or Churchill.

—McFarlane,J A, and Clements,Warren

Randolph Churchill went into hospital†to have a lung removed. It was announced that the trouble was not 'malignant'. Seeing Ed Stanley in White's, on my way to Rome,Iremarked that it was atypicaltriumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

She is trying to wear the trousers of Winston Churchill.

—Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich