To: Solon who wrote (38178 ) 6/27/2013 10:54:09 PM From: average joe Read Replies (2) | Respond to The boy is in over his head with anything but the funny pages...Quotes and Insulting Quotations from Sir Winston Churchill He is one of those orators of whom it was well said. Before they get up, the do not know what they are going to say;when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying;and when they have sat down, they do not know what they have said I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder". My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralising and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see the The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench. A curious mixture of geniality and venom Mr Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right The happy warrior of Squandermania Unless the right honourable gentleman changes his policy and methods and moves without the slightest delay, he will be as great a curse to this country in peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war They are not fit to manage a whelk stall There he stalks, that wuthering height A sheep in sheep's clothing A modest man, who has much to be modest about An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Atlee got out He delivers his speech with an expression of wounded guilt There but for the grace of God, goes God I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived The candle in that great turnip has gone out He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened Mr Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work He always played the game, and he always lost it He looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last Lady Astor to Churchill "Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison" Bessie Braddock to Churchill "Winston, your drunk!" The greatest cross I have to bear is the cross of Lorraine In defeat unbeatable, in victory unbearable What could you hope to achieve except to be sunk in a bigger and more expensive ship this time A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma it becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even with sanity Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production 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. I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting
