Famous quotes containing the words phillips and/or asked:
“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.”
—Wendell Phillips (1811–1884)
“To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candour never waited to be asked for its opinion.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)