>>>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 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 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