He would make a drum out of the skin of his own mother to sound his own praises. David Lloyd George (on Winston Churchill) [Source: Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson ed by A J P Taylor
Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child. Clement Atlee (on Winston Churchill)
One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st. Clement Attlee (on Churchill)
I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. A J Balfour
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues. Violet Asquith
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today. James C Humes
His ear is so sensitively attuned to the bugle note of history that he is often deaf to the more raucous clamour of contemporary life. Aneurin Bevan (on Churchill)