I fear this thread is degenerating from "Insults" to general quips and gags etcAnyhow, Churchill's famous encounter with Bessie Braddock (quoted earlier) was well worth repeating and he had quite a few more to his name:U.S. President Harry S. Truman once defended Churchill’s replacement, Clement Attlee, by saying “He seems a modest sort of fellow.“To which, Churchill replied “He’s got a lot to be modest about.“And after being disturbed on the toilet by the Lord Privy Seal, Winston said “Tell him I can only deal with one sh-t at a time!”Complaining about former Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald’s lack of verve, Churchill said:“I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum’s Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as “The Boneless Wonder”. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralising and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see the The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.“ He also once called MacDonald “a sheep in sheep’s clothing.“And on another occasion: “We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.Meanwhile, and very pertinent to today, Churchill once said of French general and statesman Charles de Gaulle:“What can you do with a man who looks like a female llama surprised when bathing?“Btw, in the OP's otherwise excellent selection, there is one mis-attribution:A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.""That depends, Sir, " said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."Although Disraeli is sometimes credited with this stinging retort, it actually predates him by a century or more.The original statement was almost certainly from the 4th Earl of Sandwich; the retort was possibly by Samuel Foote:https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/26/gallows-pox/
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