Quote #196

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

More from Winston Churchill

  1. When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
  2. When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.
  3. When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his…
  4. When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
  5. When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I com…
  6. Why stand when you can sit?
  7. When all was over, torture and cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to d…
  8. A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

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