Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learnt to like it.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.