The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Miguel de Cervantes














Miguel de Cervantes is a spanish author, writer of Don Quixote. Below are two images of the cover of one edition, illustrated by Gustave Dore. One example above.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Richard Cecil

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.
Thomas Carlyle

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
Wilhelm Canaris

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Lord Byron

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Winston Churchill














View of the interior of the Studio at Chartwell. The studio was created in the 1930s and became a favourite refuge for Churchill during those years. Many of his own paintings are hung here.


















Churchill’s desk in the Study at Chartwell. It is covered with items including a bronze cast of his mother’s hand, family photographs and two porcelain busts of Napoleon and Nelson.

Text and explanations from the website for Chartwell, the former home of Churchill in Kent, now run by The National Trust.