"We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”

"My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop." (one version)

"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."

Not a bad guy, for a Brit.