WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:29:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg champagne – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Churchill, Winston -- Comment to Odette Pol Roger (1946) https://wist.info/churchill-winston/39332/ https://wist.info/churchill-winston/39332/#respond Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:40:29 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=39332 I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.


Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman and author
Comment to Odette Pol Roger (1946)

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