Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Sir Winston Churchill

Birthday Reflections on Winston Churchill- Nobel Laureate, War Lord, Drunk, Depressive, Racist, Killer, Imperialist, Savior

  11-30 is Winston Churchill's birthday.   He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and rightfully so.   The English language has had four masters, four Jedis...men who could write psalms in English: William Tyndale( the King  James Version of the Bible is based on his translation), William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, and Winston Churchill. They could match King David in psalm writing.   He was a great warrior, and an apex racist. He had no qualms or guilt or reservations about killing brown people in India, or black people up the Nile, or white, non Anglo-Saxons , in South Africa.   He was witty and pithy.   “ It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don’t believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it. ”   “ " I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. "   “Lady Astor said to Churchill, “ If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea,”  to which he responded, “