Class DistinctionEdward Marsh, Winston Churchill's private secretary, once accompanied the future prime minister on an election campaign in his Manchester riding. Marching into the slums, Churchill gazed around, horrifed, at row upon row of squalid houses.
"Fancy living in one of these streets," he mused, "never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savory... never saying anything clever!"
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spenser (1874-1965) British politician and writer, First Lord of the Admiralty (1911-15, 1939-), prime minister (from 1940), Nobel Prize recipient (Literature, 1953) [noted for his remarkable eloquence and leadership ability; for his memoirs and letters; and for such works as The Second World War, The Great Republic : A History of America and My Early Life]
[Sources: E. Marsh, A Number of People]More Winston Churchill anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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