The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, Dominique Enright
Condition: VERY GOOD
Publisher: Michael O’Mara Books Ltd
Publication date: 2001
First Published: 2001
ISBN: 9781854795298
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
About the Book:
"If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons."
Of Labour Party leader Clement Attlee - whom Churchill had once described as 'a sheep in sheep's clothing': 'He is a modest man with much to be modest about.'
Proposing a toast to the Soviet leader at the Yalta conference in 1945: 'To Premier Stalin, whose foreign policy manifests a desire for peace. 'Then, in a whispered aside out of the interpreter's hearing: 'A piece of Poland, a piece of Czechoslovakia, a piece of Romania...'
On being urged by a British diplomat to flatter the Free French leader General de Gaulle (whom he described as looking 'like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath'): I'll kiss him on both cheeks - or if you prefer, on all four.'
To a well-endowed American woman who wished him to know that she had got up at dawn and driven a hundred miles to attend the unveiling of his bust in Richmond, Virginia: 'Madam, I want you to know that I would happily reciprocate the honour.'
