Winston Churchill Quotes
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.
Churchill, Winston S. Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations. Edited by Richard M. Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 524.
The graphic for this quote is the original illustration from the article. German WWII propaganda characterized Churchill as a hugly overweight, ugly, drunk. Churchill was a relatively heavy drinker of alcohol.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.