Winston Churchill Drinking Quotations

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

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.

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

Mr. Churchill your drunk!" Mr. Churchill: "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.