“Modern liberalism: a heartless steam engine.”
Quoted in Arthur Burns, "Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
Samuel Wilberforce: 4 quotes4 likes
Famous Samuel Wilberforce Quotes
“Is it on your grandmother’s or grandfather’s side that you are descended from an ape?”
To Thomas Henry Huxley, debating Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/evolution/how-did-evol-theory-develop/the-story/index.html
“Shabby, word-eating, pocket-picketing, sacrilegious villains.”
Of the Whig party.
Quoted in Arthur Burns, "Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
“A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.”
Quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 74
