'Yes, Madam, I am drunk, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly.' Who said this classic put-down line and to whom was it said?

Linus

Sir Winston Churchill delivered the line. Several sites indicate that the unfortunate recipient was Lady Astor. May 06 03, 7:49 PM

Andy	Winston Churchill also touted Margaret Thatcher. Once, Thatcher remarked, 'If you were my husband, I would put poison in your coffe.' Churchill, with his quick wit, replied, 'Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.' May 07 03, 2:52 AM

Diogenes

I'm pretty sure the woman was Bessie Braddock, A Labour MP. Encarta Quotations agrees with me. May 07 03, 9:47 AM

Stew

This collection of quotes also supports the Lady Astor attribution, as well as listing some of the great man's other famous quips. I think Bessie Braddock was of a different generation. http://www.winstonchurchill.org/quotes.htm#poison Lady Astor also famously let her wit get ahead of her wits when she called the Eighth Army the D Day Dodgers. Having missed the terrors of Normandy because instead they fought their way across North Africa and up the length of Italy, they were unimpressed. She was immortalised in a song that probably isn't suitable for AFT (google for the lyrics if you aren't offended by soldiers' vocabulary), but is an equally powerful put down in its own way. May 07 03, 11:38 AM

Siskin

The famous 'poison' quote was between Churchill and Nancy, Viscountess Astor. It took place at Blenheim Palace in 1912. (Quoted in E.Langthorne, 'Nancy Astor and Her Friends'). Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations. May 07 03, 1:12 PM

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