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|Resembles an ironic aphorism cited by Langworth from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations as 19th-century English naval tradition, "Ashore it's wine, women and song; aboard it's rum, bum and concertina" or variously "... rum, bum and bacca [tobacco]".

|Winston Churchill

|{{cite web |author=Robert Deis |date=17 August 2012 |title=Churchill's alleged quip about British naval tradition |url=http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2010/08/rum-sodomy-and-lash-winston-churchills.html |website=This Day in Quotes}}{{cite book |author=Richard Langworth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vbsU21fEhLAC |title=Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations |date=24 May 2011 |publisher=PublicAffairs |isbn=978-1586489571 |page=577 |quote=In dinner conversation ca. 1955, private secretary Anthony Montague Browne confronted WSC with this quotation. 'I never said it. I wish I had,' responded Churchill. (AMB to the editor.) 'Compare "Rum, bum, and bacca" and "Ashore it's wine women and song, aboard it's rum, bum and concertina", naval catchphrases dating from the nineteenth century' -- Oxford Dictionary of Quotations}}

|This remark referring to Charles de Gaulle was actually made by General Edward Louis Spears, Churchill's personal representative to the Free French.

|Winston Churchill

|Quoted in Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century p. 105.

Churchill: If I were your husband I'd drink it.

|Dates to 1899, American humor origin, originally featuring a woman upset by a man's cigar smoking. Cigar often removed in later versions, coffee added in 1900. Incorrectly attributed in Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Glitter and Gold (1952).

|Winston Churchill

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• [http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/if_you_were_my_husband_id_poison_your_coffee_nancy_astor_to_churchill "If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee" (Nancy Astor to Churchill?)], Barry Popik, The Big Apple, February 9, 2009
• 19 November 1899, Gazette-Telegraph (CO), "Tales of the Town," p. 7
• Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations, by Richard Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 578.
• The Yale Book of Quotations, edited by Fred R. Shapiro, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2006, p. 155.
• George Thayer, The Washington Post (April 27, 1971), p. B6.

|True origin unknown. Finest Hour described it as "not verifiable in any of the 50 million published words by and about him". A similar quotation: "If you're going through hell, don't stop!" is "plausibly attributed" to Oregon self-help author and counselor Douglas Bloch (1990), according to Quote Investigator.

|Winston Churchill

|{{Cite news |last=Edwards |first=Jonathan |date=2024-01-22 |title=DeSantis is far from the first to quote something Churchill never said |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/01/22/ron-desantis-winston-churchill/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}{{cite web |date=14 September 2014 |title=If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going – Quote Investigator® |url=http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/14/keep-going/}}[https://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/vol.01%20no.145.pdf Finest Hour, The Journal of Winston Churchill, Number 145, Winter 2009–10, p. 9]

|Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. The earliest close match located by the Quote Investigator is from the 1953 book How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers.

|Winston Churchill

|1953, How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers, Quote p. 109, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York. Referenced by [http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/28/success Quote Investigator]

|Recorded as a toast dating to at least the nineteenth century.

|Francis Bacon, Tom Waits

|[https://books.google.com/books?id=8v8XAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22real+friends%22&pg=PA143 The Perfect Gentleman, Or, Etiquette and Eloquence: A Book of Information]