When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticise
or attack the Government of my country. I make up for
lost time when I am at home. "A sheep in sheep's clothing"
On Clement Atlee
A modest man, who has much to be modest about
On Clement Atlee
"An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and
when the door was opened, Atlee got out"
On Clement Atlee
"I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have
been much better if he had never lived"
On Stanley Baldwin
"He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but
hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing
had happened"
On Stanley Baldwin
"He looked at foreign affairs through the wrong
end of a municipal drainpipe"
On Neville Chamberlain
Lady Astor to Churchill "Winston, if you were
my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison"
Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I should
drink it"
Bessie Braddock to Churchill "Winston, your drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning
I shall be sober"
"What could you hope to achieve except to be sunk
in a bigger and more expensive ship this time"
On Admiral Mountbatten
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