In his youth
Churchill served as a cavalryman, so he had the appropriate habits - the Hussar ones -
he did not pry, and he did not give offence.
Bessie Braddock, a Labour Party member of the English Parliament, once rebuked the Prime Minister: "Winston, you're drunk!"
He replied, "That's right, I'm drunk and you're ugly! But tomorrow morning I'll sober up, and you'll still be ugly.
The Daily Mail in 2013 conducted a survey that found that Sir Winston's response was, in the opinion of the British, the top 10 wittiest insults in history.
