"An old battleax of a woman said to……" — Winston Churchill
"An old battleax of a woman said 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."
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1,057 Quotes by Winston Churchill
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- Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the…
- You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
- The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and…
- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Never, never, never give up.
- The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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