Darkest Hour Quotes

Winston Churchill: You can not reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth.

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Clemmie: You are strong because you are imperfect. You are wise because you have doubts

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Winston Churchill: Those who never change their mind never change anything.

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Winston Churchill: Will you stop interrupting me while I am interrupting you!

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Winston Churchill: [In the toilet]Please tell the Privy Seal that I'm sealed in the privy and I can only deal with one shit at a time.

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Winston Churchill: Nations which go down fighting rise again, and those that surrender tamely are finished.

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Winston Churchill: I'm getting the job only because the ship is sinking. It's not a gift, it's revenge.

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Winston Churchill: My father was like God. Busy elsewhere.

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King George VI: How do you manage drinking during the day?
Winston Churchill: Practice.

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[last lines] Winston Churchill: Those who never change their mind never change anything.
Legislator: What just happened?
Viscount Halifax: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

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Winston Churchill: [Preparing to exit the toilet]I'm coming out in a state of nature!

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King George VI: Well even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

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King George VI: I believe we are to meet regularly.
Winston Churchill: Once a week, I'm afraid.
King George VI: How is... How are you for Mondays?
Winston Churchill: Um, I shall endeavor to be available on Mondays.
King George VI: 4: 00?
Winston Churchill: I nap at 4: 00.
King George VI: Is that permissible?
Winston Churchill: No. But necessary. I work late.

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Winston Churchill: How old?
Mother: Five months, sir. He looks like you.
Winston Churchill: Madam, all babies look like me.

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Winston Churchill: [Referring to Clement Attlee]He's a sheep in sheep's clothing.

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Winston Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.

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President Roosevelt: Good night to you, Winston. It must be late there.
Winston Churchill: In more ways than you could possibly know.

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King George VI: One never knows what's going to come out of your mouth next. Something that'll flatter, something that'll wound.
Winston Churchill: My e-emotions are unbridled. A wildness. In the blood. I share with my father. And my mother also. We lack the gift of temperance.

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Winston Churchill: [shouting at a photo of Hitler]HOUSEPAINTER!

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Winston Churchill: Do I have your, uh, permission, uh, to send, uh, an aircraft carrier to pick up the P-40 fighter planes we purchased from you? Mr. President?
President Roosevelt: Well, you-you've got me there again. New law preventing transshipment of military equipment.
Winston Churchill: Uh, but we paid for them. We-we paid for them with the money that we... that we borrowed from you.

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Winston Churchill: On certain matters I have very few people with whom I can... talk frankly.
King George VI: Perhaps now we have each other.
Winston Churchill: And I no longer scare you?
King George VI: A little. But I can cope.

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Clemmie: Are we terribly old?
Winston Churchill: Yes, I'm afraid you are.
Clemmie: Oh, you beast!

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Winston Churchill: [in his first speech as Prime Minister]But now one bond unites us all. To wage war until victory is won, and never to surrender ourselves to servitude and shame. Whatever the cost and the agony may be, conquer we must, as conquer we shall.

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Title Card: Hitler has invaded Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, and Norway. 3 million German troops are now poised on the Belgian border, ready to conquer the rest of Europe. In Britain, Parliament has lost faith in its leader Neville Chamberlain. The search for a replacement has already begun...

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Viscount Halifax: The deadly danger here is this romantic fantasy of fighting to the end. What is the end if not the destruction of all things? There's nothing heroic in going down fighting if it can be avoided. Nothing even remotely patriotic in death or glory if the odds are firmly on the former. Nothing inglorious in trying to shorten a war we are clearly losing.

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Clemmie: Here is a woman who's always tired, for she lives a life where too much is required.

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Winston Churchill: There is no doubt that if we falter at all in the leading of the nation we should all be hurled out of office.

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King George VI: Go to the people. Let them instruct you. Quite silently, they usually do. But tell them... the truth unvarnished.

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Winston Churchill: [riding the train]What are you all staring at? Have you never seen, uh, the prime minister ride the Underground before?

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Winston Churchill: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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