Quotes from Sir Winston Churchill

All the following quotes have been attributed to Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) 

 
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills: we shall never surrender.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Lady Astor: "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: "Winston, your drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, but tomorrow morning I shall be sober."

I wonder what he'd say today?