A few choice quotations from Sir Winston Churchill, who died on this date 46 years ago (I remember the black-bordered Sunday Times, the huge photograph of his funeral regatta down the Thames, the Queen in mourning).
"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out...."
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else."
"When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast."
"We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm."
