Winston Churchill was reportedly a master at insults and had famously difficult interactions with the equally sharp-tongued Nancy Astor, the first woman MP. On one occasion, she found the Prime Minister drunk in a hotel elevator. Condescendingly she remarked, “Sir Winston, you are drunk!” to which Churchill replied, “M’Lady, you are ugly. Tomorrow, I will be sober.” In our passage today, James elaborates on the dangers of the tongue, which we might call “the body part from hell.”
Central Reflections 