Lady Astor:
“Winston, if I were your wife I’d put poison in your coffee.”
Winston Churchill: “Nancy, if I were your husband I’d drink it.”
—1920s. There has been some debate about this exchange when Churchill's biographer said this was more likely to have occurred between Lady Astor (pictured) and Churchill's friend Lord Birkenhead. However other authors have stated that this retort was said by Churchill.
mrstubbins says
For a girl from Albemarle County, she\'s a pretty positive influence on British culture. Her Daddy, Chilly Langhorne, was the patriarch. Her sister was \"The Gibson Girl\". And her niece was Nancy Lancaster. This was a prodigious family.