"My idea of a good dinner is, first to have good food, then discuss good food, and after this good food has been elaborately discussed, to discuss a good topic - with me as chief conversationalist."
"Of course I am an egoist. Where do you get if you aren't?"
"I realised that I should be on my best behaviour - punctual, subdued, reserved - in short, display all the qualities with which i am least endowed."
When Nancy Astor said to Churchill: "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.", Winston riposted with: "Nancy, if I were your husband, I would drink it."