Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 372 |
| AUTHOR: | Exchange retold by Sir Charles Petrie |
| QUOTATION: | Earl of Sandwich: ’Pon my honor, Wilkes, I don’t know whether you’ll die on the gallows or of the pox. John Wilkes: That must depend my Lord, upon whether I first embrace your Lordship’s principles, or your Lordship’s mistresses. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Exchange retold by Sir Charles Petrie, The Four Georges, p. 133 (1935). |
| SUBJECTS: | Death |