(1874 - 1965) Wartime Prime Minister

Quotes

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

 

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”

 

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

 

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

 

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

 

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

 

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

 

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

 

“A lady came up to me one day and said  Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk

today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”

 

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

 

“Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but

some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”

 

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and

short enough to create interest.”

 

“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a

bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

 

Lady Astor to Winston Churchill,

"If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea."

Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.”