Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.

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.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.