- “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
- “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
- Lady Astor to Winston Churchill—
“Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.”
His reply—
“Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.” - “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
- “A lady came up to me one day and said ‘Sir! You are drunk’, to which I replied ‘I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
- “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
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