Ich habe die Woche mit “Black Swan Green” eröffnet und möchte heute den Artikel mit Jasons Gedanken zu Winston Churchill beginnen - und damit die Woche beenden.
“… if the Japanese hadn´t bombed Pearl Harbour, America´d never´ve come into the war, Britain´d´ve been starved into surrender and Winston Churchill´d´ve been executed as a war criminal.”
Winston Churchill war nicht nur der wohl bekannteste englische Premierminister, nein er war auch Literaturnobelpreisträger. In der Wikipedia wurde viel Wissenswertes zusammengetragen. Vergessen wurden einige seiner ziemlich kurzweiligen Weisheiten. Hier ein paar wunderbare Beispiele:

Lady Astor to Churchill “Winston, if you were my husband I would flavor your coffee with poison.” Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it.”

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

“I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived”

Bessie Braddock to Churchill “Winston, your drunk!”
Churchill: “Bessie, you’re ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober”

“Golf is a game who’s aim it is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.”

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”