Winston Churchill Quotes about Feelings

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

Lying, Exercise, Feelings

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Math, Feelings, Let It Go

Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

Winston Churchill

Loss, Feelings, Finals

Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Winston Churchill

Fear, Feelings, Killing

Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

Winston Churchill

Adversity, Office, Feelings

Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Winston Churchill

Math, Feelings, Let It Go

Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

Winston Churchill

War, Leader, Feelings

Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

Winston Churchill

War, Feelings, Atmosphere

Sir Winston Churchill (1942). “The Unrelenting Struggle: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...”