Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
Winston ChurchillGod alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.
Winston ChurchillThe British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Winston ChurchillMore than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.
Winston ChurchillNo one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.
Winston Churchill