@filmfann I adore that Churchill quote and was going to use it or the one @Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard alluded to. Both are taken, but I can give you the verbatim version of Churchill’s brilliant putdown of Lady Braddock when she insulted his drunkenness. The discussion went as follows,
“You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk.”
‘Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.”
So robbed of my favorite Churchill barbs, I will turn to a man far more renown for his pacifism and tireless work for civil rights than for his acerbic wit. After having won India’s independence from Great Britain, Chandi visited London and was the talk of the town. Everywhere he went, reporters and photographers bombarded him with mostly inane questions. In one such encounter, a reporter shouted, “What do you think of Western civilization?”
His comeback forever established that Ghandi had as much wit as stubborn determination. He replied, “I think it would be a good idea.”