Gladstone to Benjamin Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, sir," said Disraeli, "On whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
H/T Thomas Harris
Thursday, 28 February 2008
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I love people who can think fast on their feet... even if they are long gone.
I too, come up with witty replies... but usually 72 hours after the incident!
join the club dp.
Hmmm ...
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/earl-of-sandwhich-you-shall-either-die-of-the-pox/348208.html
Cheers
JMH
You cannot get this repartee from modern British politicians.
They don't have mistresses any more. Just Rent Boys, Aids from fucking the arrse of the British people for the past sixty years.
It wasn't Disraeli and Gladstone. It was an exchange between the Earl of Sandwich and John Wilkes, the 18th Century radical.
It was also not "an unspeakable disease" but "the pox".It would have been an odd jibe at the morally upright Gladstone.
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