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OSC on the virtues of writer's block

Talpianna at aol.com Talpianna at aol.com
Fri Dec 5 13:21:06 PST 2003

>>>In a message dated 12/5/2003 1:56:36 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
bertowud at cox.net writes:
Actually, G. K. Chesterton said that.  The Winston Churchill quote is
> along the lines of, "Sir, you're drunk!" "And you, madam, are ugly,
> but in the morning i shall be sober."  Not sure if that's really his
> quote, anyway, but it's often attributed to him.
> 
> rone

Was it Churchill or W C Fields?

Robert
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The actual incident involved an intoxicated Churchill having trouble getting 
past a large woman in a doorway.  "Madam, you are very fat!" growled Churchill.

"Sir, you are very drunk!" she retorted indignantly.

"Ah," said Churchill, "but in the morning I shall be sober."

And W.C. Fields never to my knowledge endorsed sobriety.


                                tal