Winston Churchill
English statesman, historian, and essayist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
—Winston Churchill, English statesman, historian, and essayist, quoted in Alistair Cooke, America, 1973
Posted on January 6, 2000 at 8:43 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Everybody has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
—Winston Churchill, British statesman, historian, and essayist, The Observer, 1951
Posted on November 4, 1998 at 12:37 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
—Winston Churchill, English statesman, historian, and essayist
Posted on December 1, 2002 at 7:04 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, "Before they get up, they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they have sat down, they do not know what they have said."
—Winston Churchill, English statesman, historian, and essayist, Speech (discussing naval commander Lord Charles Beresford), 1912
Posted on June 27, 2002 at 7:59 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
—Winston Churchill, English statesman, historian, and essayist, Speech
Posted on November 9, 2001 at 4:31 PM
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