Quote#Speech
Shabby, word-eating, pocket-picketing, sacrilegious villains
Quote bySamuel Wilberforce · 1805–1873
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Of the Whig party..
English (original)
Shabby, word-eating, pocket-picketing, sacrilegious villains.
— Samuel Wilberforce
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