Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict,
Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease".
Disraeli replied, "That all depends upon whether I embrace your
principals or your mistress".
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"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of the pox !
"That, my Lord, depends on whether I embrace your principles or your
mistress"
-- -- John Wilkes to The Earl of Sandwich, Parliament, November 1763
Now that's so much of a classic I am near-ashamed to include it in here....