20 Famous Quotes That Were Never Actually Spoken

16. "The Only Traditions Of The Royal Navy Are Rum, Sodomy And The Lash" - Winston Churchill

Technically Churchill did utter these words - but only to say that he wished he himself had come up with the phrase!

His private secretary, Anthony Montague Browne, actually spoke this famous phrase - and then Churchill later commented that it was so accurate that he should have said it himself.

Looks like those so-called "Churchillian speeches" may not have been all they were cracked up to be, after all...