evidence: Winston Churchill had lots of critics. He didn’t allow the fear of criticism to hold him back. [...] To become the modern version of Oscar Wilde, or to have the come-backs of Winston Churchill, when people criticised his weighty body, his brandy odoured breath or his ideas about how to win a World War, he would always come back with a loaded answer that put the person criticising him in their place — without them becoming his enemy in the process. Often, he gained more respect from the right people because of his strategic use of precise observations.