18th Century and Earlier
- John Phillips (bishop of Sodor and Man) (died 1633), Bishop of Sodor and Man in the Church of England
- John Phillips (author) (1631–1706), author and secretary to John Milton
- John Phillips (c. 1709–1775), English master carpenter
- John Phillips (educator) (1719–1795), American merchant and founder of Phillips Exeter Academy
- John Phillips (pirate) (died 1724), captain of the pirate ship Revenge
- John Phillips (mayor) (1770–1823), first mayor of Boston, 1822–1823
- John Leigh Philips (1761–1841), textile manufacturer and collector of art
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Famous quotes containing the words century and/or earlier:
“The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour’s wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence—that sort of innocence. With the result that we’re now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love.... It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigour of the earlier world?”
—William Morris (1834–1896)