Magnetic Quotations – Snap apart the pre-cut pieces and attach to any metal surface.

18 x 28cm

“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all”, Churchill cared about his specific choice of words. Although clearly spontaneous, Churchill spent hours crafting his important works – the public speeches and the books which he knew would make his mark on history. Always supported by a bright young historian to help with his research, Churchill would dictate his piece to one of the roster of secretaries detailed to be there of his every thinking moment. Never still, he would carefully select each word as he walked up and down his office, ripping the page from the typewriter and revise each sentence until the whole was perfection. To get the more important pieces right, he would send them off to relevant friends and participants to receive their opinion and he would invariably sound our his guests ant the Chartwell dining table on the cadences and phraseology he was intending to employ. After supper he would retire back to his study for several more hours dictation before heading to bed well after 2am. His output was prodigious.

Churchill was a great statesman and an inspiration in dark times. His careful choice of words, his distinctive appearance, his bulldogged confidence and his highly informed and contrived public performance all contributed to his accomplishment. These quotations shall hopefully remind us of the unique approach of this unique character and amuse and inspire our daily doings.

Image: Winston Churchill gives his V for Victory.
Quotations:
• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.
• Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
• I have always felt that a politician be judged by the animesities he excites amongst his opponents.
• Golf is a game who’s aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
• An old proverb there is, and mostly true – a living dog is better than a dead lion.
• I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
• When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
• Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with I will not put.
• There is nothing more exhilarating that to be shot at without result.
• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
• When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.
• He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the the vices I admire.
• A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and wont change the subject.
• The price of greatness is responsibility. (has and image)
• The Americans will always do the right thing. After they’ve exhausted the alternatives.
• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
• We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.