Posted by Robert Hill on January 05, 2006 at 19:38:44 from 195.92.168.163 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Sledging at cricket posted by Robert Dilley on January 04, 2006 at 22:43:00:
That's reminiscent of an exchange between John Wilkes and the Earl of Sandwich (or various other pairs of people, depending on which source you believe; many websites seem to think it was Gladstone and Disraeli).
'Egad, sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox.'
'That, my lord, depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.'