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The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations 

PREFACE Preface 

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This is a completely new dictionary, containing about 5,000 quotations. 

What is a "quotation"? It is a saying or piece of writing that strikes 

people as so true or memorable that they quote it (or allude to it) in 

speech or writing. Often they will quote it directly, introducing it with 

a phrase like "As ---- says" but equally often they will assume that the 

reader or listener already knows the quotation, and they will simply 

allude to it without mentioning its source (as in the headline "A ros‚ is 

a ros‚ is a ros‚," referring obliquely to a line by Gertrude Stein). 

This dictionary has been compiled from extensive evidence of the 

quotations that are actually used in this way. The dictionary includes 

the commonest quotations which were found in a collection of more than 

200,000 citations assembled by combing books, magazines, and newspapers. 

For example, our collections contained more than thirty examples each for 

Edward Heath's "unacceptable face of capitalism" and Marshal McLuhan's 

"The medium is the message," so both these quotations had to be included. 

As a result, this book is not--like many quotations dictionaries--a 

subjective anthology of the editor's favourite quotations, but an 

objective selection of the quotations which are most widely known and 

used. Popularity and familiarity are the main criteria for inclusion, 

although no reader is likely to be familiar with all the quotations in 

this dictionary. 

The book can be used for reference or for browsing: to trace the source of 

a particular quotation or to find an appropriate saying for a special 

need. 

The quotations are drawn from novels, plays, poems, essays, speeches, 

films radio and television broadcasts, songs, advertisements, and even 

book titles. It is difficult to draw the line between quotations and 

similar sayings like proverbs, catch-phrases, and idioms. For example, 

some quotations (like "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings") 

become proverbial. These are usually included if they can be traced to a 

particular originator. However, we have generally omitted phrases like 

"agonizing reappraisal" which are covered adequately in the Oxford English 

Dictionary. Catch-phrases are included if there is evidence that they are 

widely remembered or used. 

We have taken care to verify all the quotations in original or 

authoritative sources--something which few other quotations dictionaries 

have tried to do. We have corrected many errors found in other 

dictionaries, and we have traced the true origins of such phrases as 

"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" and "Shaken and not stirred." 

The quotations are arranged in alphabetical order of authors, with 

anonymous quotations in the middle of "A." Under each author, the 

quotations are arranged in alphabetical order of their first words. 

Foreign quotations are, wherever possible, given in the original language 

as well as in translation. 

Authors are cited under the names by which they are best known: for 

example, Graham Greene (not Henry Graham Greene); F. Scott Fitzgerald (not

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald); George Orwell (not Eric Blair); W. C. 

Fields (not William Claude Dukenfield). Authors' dates of birth and death 

are given when ascertainable. The actual writers of the words are 

credited for quotations from songs, film-scripts, etc. 

The references after each quotation are designed to be as helpful as 

possible, enabling the reader to trace quotations in their original 

sources if desired. 

The index (1) has been carefully prepared--with ingenious computer 

assistance--to help the reader to trace quotations from their most 

important keywords. Each reference includes not only the page and the 

number of the quotation on the page but also the first few letters of the 

author's name. The index includes references to book-titles which have 

become well known as quotations in their own right. 

One difficulty in a dictionary of modern quotations is to decide what the 

word "modern" means. In this dictionary it means "twentieth-century." 

Quotations are eligible if they originated from someone who was still 

alive after 1900. Where an author (like George Bernard Shaw, who died in 

1950) said memorable things before and after 1900, these are all included. 

This dictionary could not have been compiled without the work of many 

people, most notably Paula Clifford, Angela Partington, Fiona Mullan, 

Penelope Newsome, Julia Cresswell, Michael McKinley, Charles McCreery, 

Heidi Abbey, Jean Harder, Elizabeth Knowles, George Chowdharay-Best, 

Tracey Ward, and Ernest Trehern. I am also very grateful to the OUP 

Dictionary Department's team of checkers, who verified the quotations at 

libraries in Oxford, London, Washington, New York, and elsewhere. James 

Howes deserves credit for his work in computerizing the index. 

The Editor is responsible for any errors, which he will be grateful to 

have drawn to his attention. As the quotation from Simeon Strunsky reminds 

us, "Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly," but we have 

endeavoured to make this book more accurate, authoritative, and helpful 

than any other dictionary of modern quotations. 

TONY AUGARDE 

(1) Discussions of the index features in this preface and in the 

"How to Use this Dictionary" section of this book refer to 

the hard-copy edition printed in 1991. No index has been 

included in this soft-copy edition. See "Notices" in 

topic NOTICES for additional information about this soft-copy 

edition. 

HOWTO How to Use this Dictionary 

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HOWTO.1 General Principles 

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The arrangement is alphabetical by the names of authors: usually the 

names by which each person is best known. So look under Maya Angelou, not 

Maya Johnson; Princess Anne, not HRH The Princess Royal; Lord Beaverbrook, 

not William Maxwell Aitken; Irving Berlin, not Israel Balin; Greta Garbo, 

not Greta Lovisa Gustafsson,

Anonymous quotations are all together, starting in "Anonymous" in 

topic 1.43 They are arranged in alphabetical order of their first 

significant word. 

Under each author, quotations are arranged by the alphabetical order of 

the titles of the works from which they come, even if those works were not 

written by the person who is being quoted. Poems are usually cited from 

the first book in which they appeared. 

Quotations by foreign authors are, where possible, given in the original 

language and also in an English translation. 

A reference is given after each quotation to its original source or to an 

authoritative record of its use. The reference usually consists of either 

(a) a book-title with its date of publication and a reference to where the 

quotation occurs in the book; or (b) the title of a newspaper or magazine 

with its date of publication. The reference is preceded by "In" if the 

quotation comes from a secondary source: for example if a writer is quoted 

by another author in a newspaper article, or if a book refers to a saying 

but does not indicate where or when it was made. 

HOWTO.2 Examples 

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Here are some typical entries, with notes to clarify the meaning of each 

part. 

Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin) 

1889-1977 

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and 

a pretty girl. 

My Autobiography (1964) ch. 10 

Charlie Chaplin is the name by which this person is best known but Sir 

Charles Spencer Chaplin is the name which would appear in reference books 

such as Who's Who. 

Charlie Chaplin was born in 1889 and died in 1977. The quotation comes 

from the tenth chapter of Chaplin's autobiography, which was published in 

1964. 

Martin Luther King 

1929-1968 

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. 

Letter from Birmingham Jail, Alabama, 16 Apr. 1963, in 

Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1963, p. 78 

Martin Luther King wrote these words in a letter that he sent from 

Birmingham Jail on 16 April 1963. The letter was published later that year 

on page 78 of the August issue of the Atlanta Monthly.

Dorothy Parker 

1893-1967 

One more drink and I'd have been under the host. 

In Howard Teichmann George S. Kaufman (1972) p. 68 

Dorothy Parker must have said this before she died in 1967 but the 

earliest reliable source we can find is a 1972 book by Howard Teichmann. 

"In" signals the fact that the quotation is cited from a secondary source. 

HOWTO.3 Index 

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If you remember part of a quotation and want to know the rest of it, or 

who said it, you can trace it by means of the index (1). 

The index lists the most significant words from each quotation. These 

keywords are listed alphabetically in the index, each with a section of 

the text to show the context of every keyword. These sections are listed 

in strict alphabetical order under each keyword. Foreign keywords are 

included in their alphabetical place. 

The references show the first few letters of the author's name, followed 

by the page and item numbers (e.g. 163:15 refers to the fifteenth 

quotation on page 163). 

As an example, suppose that you want to verify a quotation which you 

remember contains the line "to purify the dialect of the tribe." If you 

decide that tribe is a significant word and refer to it in the index, you 

will find this entry: 

tribe: To purify the dialect of the t. ELIOT 74:19 

This will lead you to the poem by T. S. Eliot which is the nineteenth 

quotation on page 74. 

CONTENTS Table of Contents 

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Title Page TITLE 

Edition Notice EDITION 

Notices NOTICES 

Preface PREFACE 

How to Use this Dictionary HOWTO 

General Principles HOWTO.1 

Examples HOWTO.2 

Index HOWTO.3 

Table of Contents CONTENTS 

A 1.0 

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello (Louis Francis Cristillo) 1.1

Dannie Abse 1.2 

Goodman Ace 1.3 

Dean Acheson 1.4 

J. R. Ackerley 1.5 

Douglas Adams 1.6 

Frank Adams and Will M. Hough 1.7 

Franklin P. Adams 1.8 

Henry Brooks Adams 1.9 

Harold Adamson 1.10 

George Ade 1.11 

Konrad Adenauer 1.12 

Alfred Adler 1.13 

Polly Adler 1.14 

AE (A.E., ’) (George William Russell) 1.15 

Herbert Agar 1.16 

James Agate 1.17 

Spiro T. Agnew 1.18 

Max Aitken 1.19 

Zo‰ Akins 1.20 

Alain (mile-Auguste Chartier) 1.21 

Edward Albee 1.22 

Richard Aldington 1.23 

Brian Aldiss 1.24 

Nelson Algren 1.25 

Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) 1.26 

Fred Allen (John Florence Sullivan) 1.27 

Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg) 1.28 

Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg) and Marshall Brickman 1.29 

Margery Allingham 1.30 

Joseph Alsop 1.31 

Robert Altman 1.32 

Leo Amery 1.33 

Kingsley Amis 1.34 

Maxwell Anderson 1.35 

Maxwell Anderson and Lawrence Stallings 1.36 

Robert Anderson 1.37 

James Anderton 1.38 

Sir Norman Angell 1.39 

Maya Angelou (Maya Johnson) 1.40 

Paul Anka 1.41 

Princess Anne (HRH the Princess Royal) 1.42 

Anonymous 1.43 

Jean Anouilh 1.44 

Guillaume Apollinaire 1.45 

Sir Edward Appleton 1.46 

Louis Aragon 1.47 

Hannah Arendt 1.48 

G. D. Armour 1.49 

Harry Armstrong 1.50 

Louis Armstrong 1.51 

Neil Armstrong 1.52 

Sir Robert Armstrong 1.53 

Raymond Aron 1.54 

George Asaf 1.55 

Dame Peggy Ashcroft 1.56 

Daisy Ashford 1.57 

Isaac Asimov 1.58 

Elizabeth Asquith (Princess Antoine Bibesco) 1.59 

Herbert Henry Asquith (Earl of Oxford and Asquith) 1.60 

Margot Asquith (Countess of Oxford and Asquith) 1.61

Raymond Asquith 1.62 

Nancy Astor (Viscountess Astor) 1.63 

Brooks Atkinson 1.64 

E. L. Atkinson and Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1.65 

Clement Attlee 1.66 

W. H. Auden 1.67 

W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood 1.68 

Tex Avery (Fred Avery) 1.69 

Earl of Avon 1.70 

Revd W. Awdry 1.71 

Alan Ayckbourn 1.72 

A. J. Ayer 1.73 

Pam Ayres 1.74 

B 2.0 

Robert Baden-Powell (Baron Baden-Powell) 2.1 

Joan Baez 2.2 

Sydney D. Bailey 2.3 

Bruce Bairnsfather 2.4 

Hylda Baker 2.5 

James Baldwin 2.6 

Stanley Baldwin (Earl Baldwin of Bewdley) 2.7 

Arthur James Balfour (Earl of Balfour) 2.8 

Whitney Balliett 2.9 

Pierre Balmain 2.10 

Tallulah Bankhead 2.11 

Nancy Banks-Smith 2.12 

Imamu Amiri Baraka (Everett LeRoi Jones) 2.13 

W. N. P. Barbellion (Bruce Frederick Cummings) 2.14 

Maurice Baring 2.15 

Ronnie Barker 2.16 

Frederick R. Barnard 2.17 

Clive Barnes 2.18 

Julian Barnes 2.19 

Peter Barnes 2.20 

Sir J. M. Barrie 2.21 

Ethel Barrymore 2.22 

John Barrymore 2.23 

Lionel Bart 2.24 

Karl Barth 2.25 

Roland Barthes 2.26 

Bernard Baruch 2.27 

Jacques Barzun 2.28 

L. Frank Baum 2.29 

Vicki Baum 2.30 

Sir Arnold Bax 2.31 

Sir Beverley Baxter 2.32 

Beachcomber 2.33 

David, First Earl Beatty 2.34 

Lord Beaverbrook (William Maxwell Aitken, first Baron Beaverbrook) 2.35 

Carl Becker 2.36 

Samuel Beckett 2.37 

Harry Bedford and Terry Sullivan 2.38 

Sir Thomas Beecham 2.39 

Sir Max Beerbohm 2.40 

Brendan Behan 2.41 

John Hay Beith 2.42 

Clive Bell 2.43 

Henry Bellamann 2.44 

Hilaire Belloc 2.45

Saul Bellow 2.46 

Robert Benchley 2.47 

Julien Benda 2.48 

Stephen Vincent Ben‚t 2.49 

William Rose Ben‚t 2.50 

Tony Benn 2.51 

George Bennard 2.52 

Alan Bennett 2.53 

Arnold Bennett 2.54 

Ada Benson and Fred Fisher 2.55 

A. C. Benson 2.56 

Stella Benson 2.57 

Edmund Clerihew Bentley 2.58 

Eric Bentley 2.59 

Nikolai Berdyaev 2.60 

Lord Charles Beresford 2.61 

Henri Bergson 2.62 

Irving Berlin (Israel Baline) 2.63 

Sir Isaiah Berlin 2.64 

Georges Bernanos 2.65 

Jeffrey Bernard 2.66 

Eric Berne 2.67 

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward 2.68 

Chuck Berry 2.69 

John Berryman 2.70 

Pierre Berton 2.71 

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg 2.72 

Sir John Betjeman 2.73 

Aneurin Bevan 2.74 

William Henry Beveridge (First Baron Beveridge) 2.75 

Ernest Bevin 2.76 

Georges Bidault 2.77 

Ambrose Bierce 2.78 

Laurence Binyon 2.79 

Nigel Birch (Baron Rhyl) 2.80 

John Bird 2.81 

Earl of Birkenhead 2.82 

Lord Birkett (William Norman Birkett, Baron Birkett) 2.83 

Eric Blair 2.84 

Eubie Blake (James Hubert Blake) 2.85 

Lesley Blanch 2.86 

Alan Bleasdale 2.87 

Karen Blixen 2.88 

Edmund Blunden 2.89 

Alfred Blunt (Bishop of Bradford) 2.90 

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 2.91 

Ronald Blythe 2.92 

Enid Blyton 2.93 

Louise Bogan 2.94 

Humphrey Bogart 2.95 

John B. Bogart 2.96 

Niels Bohr 2.97 

Alan Bold 2.98 

Robert Bolt 2.99 

Andrew Bonar Law 2.100 

Carrie Jacobs Bond 2.101 

Sir David Bone 2.102 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2.103 

Sonny Bono (Salvatore Bono) 2.104 

Daniel J. Boorstin 2.105

James H. Boren 2.106 

Jorge Luis Borges 2.107 

Max Born 2.108 

John Collins Bossidy 2.109 

Gordon Bottomley 2.110 

Horatio Bottomley 2.111 

Sir Harold Edwin Boulton 2.112 

Elizabeth Bowen 2.113 

David Bowie (David Jones) 2.114 

Sir Maurice Bowra 2.115 

Charles Boyer 2.116 

Lord Brabazon (Baron Brabazon of Tara) 2.117 

Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. 2.118 

Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and Walter Reisch 2.119 

F. H. Bradley 2.120 

Omar Bradley 2.121 

Caryl Brahms (Doris Caroline Abrahams) and S. J. Simon (Simon Jasha Skidelsky) 2.122 

John Braine 2.123 

Ernest Bramah (Ernest Bramah Smith) 2.124 

Georges Braque 2.125 

John Bratby 2.126 

Irving Brecher 2.127 

Bertolt Brecht 2.128 

Gerald Brenan 2.129 

Aristide Briand 2.130 

Vera Brittain 2.131 

David Broder 2.132 

Jacob Bronowski 2.133 

Rupert Brooke 2.134 

Anita Brookner 2.135 

Mel Brooks 2.136 

Heywood Broun 2.137 

H. Rap Brown 2.138 

Helen Gurley Brown 2.139 

Ivor Brown 2.140 

John Mason Brown 2.141 

Lew Brown (Louis Brownstein) 2.142 

Nacio Herb Brown 2.143 

Cecil Browne 2.144 

Sir Frederick Browning 2.145 

Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider) 2.146 

Anita Bryant 2.147 

Martin Buber 2.148 

John Buchan (Baron Tweedsmuir) 2.149 

Frank Buchman 2.150 

Gene Buck (Edward Eugene Buck) and Herman Ruby 2.151 

Richard Buckle 2.152 

Arthur Buller 2.153 

Ivor Bulmer-Thomas 2.154 

Luis Bu¤uel 2.155 

Anthony Burgess 2.156 

Johnny Burke 2.157 

John Burns 2.158 

William S. Burroughs 2.159 

Benjamin Hapgood Burt 2.160 

Nat Burton 2.161 

R. A. Butler (Baron Butler of Saffron Walden) 2.162 

Ralph Butler and Noel Gay (Richard Moxon Armitage) 2.163 

Samuel Butler 2.164 

Max Bygraves 2.165

James Branch Cabell 2.166 

C 3.0 

Irving Caesar 3.1 

John Cage 3.2 

James Cagney 3.3 

Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen) 3.4 

James M. Cain 3.5 

Michael Caine (Maurice Joseph Micklewhite) 3.6 

Sir Joseph Cairns 3.7 

Charles Calhoun 3.8 

James Callaghan (Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff) 3.9 

Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil) 3.10 

Mrs Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Campbell) 3.11 

Roy Campbell 3.12 

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 3.13 

Albert Camus 3.14 

Elias Canetti 3.15 

Hughie Cannon 3.16 

John R. Caples 3.17 

Al Capone 3.18 

Truman Capote 3.19 

Al Capp 3.20 

Ethna Carbery (Anna MacManus) 3.21 

Hoagy Carmichael (Hoagland Howard Carmichael) 3.22 

Stokely Carmichael and Charles Vernon Hamilton 3.23 

Dale Carnegie 3.24 

J. L. Carr 3.25 

Edward Carson (Baron Carson) 3.26 

Jimmy Carter 3.27 

Sydney Carter 3.28 

Pablo Casals 3.29 

Ted Castle (Baron Castle of Islington) 3.30 

Harry Castling and C. W. Murphy 3.31 

Fidel Castro 3.32 

Willa Cather 3.33 

Mr Justice Caulfield (Sir Bernard Caulfield) 3.34 

Charles Causley 3.35 

Constantine Cavafy 3.36 

Edith Cavell 3.37 

Lord David Cecil 3.38 

Patrick Reginald Chalmers 3.39 

Joseph Chamberlain 3.40 

Neville Chamberlain 3.41 

Harry Champion 3.42 

Raymond Chandler 3.43 

Coco Chanel 3.44 

Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin) 3.45 

Arthur Chapman 3.46 

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin 3.47 

Prince Charles (Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales) 3.48 

Apsley Cherry-Garrard 3.49 

G. K. Chesterton 3.50 

Maurice Chevalier 3.51 

Erskine Childers 3.52 

Charles Chilton 3.53 

Noam Chomsky 3.54 

Dame Agatha Christie 3.55 

Frank E. Churchill 3.56 

Sir Winston Churchill 3.57

Count Galeazzo Ciano 3.58 

Brian Clark 3.59 

Kenneth Clark (Baron Clark) 3.60 

Arthur C. Clarke 3.61 

Grant Clarke and Edgar Leslie 3.62 

Eldridge Cleaver 3.63 

John Cleese 3.64 

John Cleese and Connie Booth 3.65 

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn 3.66 

Georges Clemenceau 3.67 

Harlan Cleveland 3.68 

Richard Cobb 3.69 

Claud Cockburn 3.70 

Jean Cocteau 3.71 

Lenore Coffee 3.72 

George M. Cohan 3.73 

Desmond Coke 3.74 

Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) 3.75 

R. G. Collingwood 3.76 

Charles Collins and Fred W. Leigh 3.77 

Charles Collins and Fred Murray 3.78 

Charles Collins, E. A. Sheppard, and Fred Terry 3.79 

John Churton Collins 3.80 

Michael Collins 3.81 

Betty Comden and Adolph Green 3.82 

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett 3.83 

Billy Connolly 3.84 

Cyril Connolly 3.85 

James Connolly 3.86 

Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski) 3.87 

Shirley Conran 3.88 

A. J. Cook 3.89 

Dan Cook 3.90 

Peter Cook 3.91 

Calvin Coolidge 3.92 

Ananda Coomaraswamy 3.93 

Alfred Duff Cooper (Viscount Norwich) 3.94 

Tommy Cooper 3.95 

Wendy Cope 3.96 

Aaron Copland 3.97 

Bernard Cornfeld 3.98 

Frances Cornford 3.99 

Francis Macdonald Cornford 3.100 

Baron Pierre de Coubertin 3.101 

mile Cou‚ 3.102 

No‰l Coward 3.103 

Hart Crane 3.104 

James Creelman and Ruth Rose 3.105 

Bishop Mandell Creighton 3.106 

Quentin Crisp 3.107 

Julian Critchley 3.108 

Richmal Crompton (Richmal Crompton Lamburn) 3.109 

Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby) 3.110 

Bing Crosby, Roy Turk, and Fred Ahlert 3.111 

Richard Crossman 3.112 

Aleister Crowley 3.113 

Leslie Crowther 3.114 

Robert Crumb 3.115 

Bruce Frederick Cummings 3.116 

e. e. cummings 3.117

William Thomas Cummings 3.118 

Will Cuppy 3.119 

Edwina Currie 3.120 

Michael Curtiz 3.121 

Lord Curzon (George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) 3.122 

D 4.0 

Paul Daniels 4.1 

Charles Brace Darrow 4.2 

Clarence Darrow 4.3 

Sir Francis Darwin 4.4 

Jules Dassin 4.5 

Worton David and Lawrence Wright 4.6 

Jack Davies and Ken Annakin 4.7 

W. H. Davies 4.8 

Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis) 4.9 

Lord Dawson of Penn (Bertrand Edward Dawson, Viscount Dawson of Penn) 4.10 

C. Day-Lewis 4.11 

Simone de Beauvoir 4.12 

Edward de Bono 4.13 

Eugene Victor Debs 4.14 

Edgar Degas 4.15 

Charles de Gaulle 4.16 

J. de Knight (James E. Myers) and M. Freedman 4.17 

Walter de la Mare 4.18 

Shelagh Delaney 4.19 

Jack Dempsey 4.20 

Nigel Dennis 4.21 

Buddy De Sylva (George Gard De Sylva) and Lew Brown 4.22 

Peter De Vries 4.23 

Lord Dewar 4.24 

Sergei Diaghilev 4.25 

Paul Dickson 4.26 

Joan Didion 4.27 

Howard Dietz 4.28 

William Dillon 4.29 

Ernest Dimnet 4.30 

Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) 4.31 

Mort Dixon 4.32 

Milovan Djilas 4.33 

Austin Dobson (Henry Austin Dobson) 4.34 

Ken Dodd 4.35 

J. P. Donleavy 4.36 

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith 4.37 

Keith Douglas 4.38 

Norman Douglas 4.39 

Sir Alec Douglas-Home 4.40 

Caroline Douglas-Home 4.41 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4.42 

Maurice Drake 4.43 

William A. Drake 4.44 

John Drinkwater 4.45 

Alexander Dubcek 4.46 

Al Dubin 4.47 

W. E. B. DuBois 4.48 

Georges Duhamel 4.49 

Raoul Duke 4.50 

John Foster Dulles 4.51 

Dame Daphne du Maurier 4.52 

Isadora Duncan 4.53

Ian Dunlop 4.54 

Jimmy Durante 4.55 

Leo Durocher 4.56 

Ian Dury 4.57 

Lillian K. Dykstra 4.58 

Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) 4.59 

E 5.0 

Stephen T. Early 5.1 

Clint Eastwood 5.2 

Abba Eban 5.3 

Sir Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) 5.4 

Clarissa Eden (Countess of Avon) 5.5 

Marriott Edgar 5.6 

Duke of Edinburgh 5.7 

Thomas Alva Edison 5.8 

John Maxwell Edmonds 5.9 

King Edward VII 5.10 

King Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) 5.11 

John Ehrlichman 5.12 

Albert Einstein 5.13 

Dwight D. Eisenhower 5.14 

T. S. Eliot 5.15 

Queen Elizabeth II 5.16 

Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 5.17 

Alf Ellerton 5.18 

Havelock Ellis (Henry Havelock Ellis) 5.19 

Paul Eluard 5.20 

Sir William Empson 5.21 

Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch 5.22 

Susan Ertz 5.23 

Dudley Erwin 5.24 

Howard Estabrook and Harry Behn 5.25 

Gavin Ewart 5.26 

William Norman Ewer 5.27 

F 6.0 

Clifton Fadiman 6.1 

Eleanor Farjeon 6.2 

King Farouk of Egypt 6.3 

William Faulkner 6.4 

George Fearon 6.5 

James Fenton 6.6 

Edna Ferber 6.7 

Kathleen Ferrier 6.8 

Eric Field 6.9 

Dorothy Fields 6.10 

Dame Gracie Fields (Grace Stansfield) 6.11 

W. C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield) 6.12 

Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, and Dean Riesner 6.13 

Ronald Firbank 6.14 

Fred Fisher 6.15 

H. A. L. Fisher 6.16 

John Arbuthnot Fisher (Baron Fisher) 6.17 

Marve Fisher 6.18 

Albert H. Fitz 6.19 

F. Scott Fitzgerald 6.20 

Zelda Fitzgerald 6.21 

Robert Fitzsimmons 6.22 

Bud Flanagan (Chaim Reeven Weintrop) 6.23

Michael Flanders and Donald Swann 6.24 

James Elroy Flecker 6.25 

Ian Fleming 6.26 

Robert, Marquis de Flers and Arman de Caillavet 6.27 

Dario Fo 6.28 

Marshal Ferdinand Foch 6.29 

J. Foley 6.30 

Michael Foot 6.31 

Anna Ford 6.32 

Gerald Ford 6.33 

Henry Ford 6.34 

Lena Guilbert Ford 6.35 

Howell Forgy 6.36 

E. M. Forster 6.37 

Bruce Forsyth 6.38 

Harry Emerson Fosdick 6.39 

Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-Fran‡ois Thibault) 6.40 

Georges Franju 6.41 

Sir James George Frazer 6.42 

Stan Freberg 6.43 

Arthur Freed 6.44 

Ralph Freed 6.45 

Cliff Freeman 6.46 

John Freeman 6.47 

Marilyn French 6.48 

Sigmund Freud 6.49 

Max Frisch 6.50 

Charles Frohman 6.51 

Erich Fromm 6.52 

David Frost 6.53 

Robert Frost 6.54 

Christopher Fry 6.55 

Roger Fry 6.56 

R. Buckminster Fuller 6.57 

Alfred Funke 6.58 

Sir David Maxwell Fyfe 6.59 

Will Fyffe 6.60 

Rose Fyleman 6.61 

G 7.0 

Zsa Zsa Gabor (Sari Gabor) 7.1 

Norman Gaff 7.2 

Hugh Gaitskell 7.3 

J. K. Galbraith 7.4 

John Galsworthy 7.5 

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson 7.6 

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 7.7 

Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) 7.8 

Ed Gardner 7.9 

John Nance Garner 7.10 

Bamber Gascoigne 7.11 

Noel Gay (Richard Moxon Armitage) 7.12 

Noel Gay and Ralph Butler 7.13 

Sir Eric Geddes 7.14 

Bob Geldof 7.15 

Bob Geldof and Midge Ure 7.16 

King George V 7.17 

Daniel George (Daniel George Bunting) 7.18 

George Gershwin 7.19 

Ira Gershwin 7.20

Stella Gibbons 7.21 

Wolcott Gibbs 7.22 

Kahlil Gibran 7.23 

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 7.24 

Andr‚ Gide 7.25 

Eric Gill 7.26 

Terry Gilliam 7.27 

Penelope Gilliatt 7.28 

Allen Ginsberg 7.29 

George Gipp 7.30 

Jean Giraudoux 7.31 

George Glass 7.32 

John A. Glover-Kind 7.33 

Jean-Luc Godard 7.34 

A. D. Godley 7.35 

Joseph Goebbels 7.36 

Hermann Goering 7.37 

Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts (Benjamin Eisenberg) 7.38 

Isaac Goldberg 7.39 

William Golding 7.40 

Emma Goldman 7.41 

Barry Goldwater 7.42 

Sam Goldwyn (Samuel Goldfish) 7.43 

Paul Goodman 7.44 

Mack Gordon 7.45 

Stuart Gorrell 7.46 

Sir Edmund Gosse 7.47 

Lord Gowrie (2nd Earl of Gowrie) 7.48 

Lew Grade (Baron Grade) 7.49 

D. M. Graham 7.50 

Harry Graham 7.51 

Kenneth Grahame 7.52 

Bernie Grant 7.53 

Ethel Watts-Mumford Grant 7.54 

Robert Graves 7.55 

Hannah Green (Joanne Greenberg) 7.56 

Graham Greene 7.57 

Oswald Greene 7.58 

Germaine Greer 7.59 

Hubert Gregg 7.60 

Joyce Grenfell 7.61 

Julian Grenfell 7.62 

Clifford Grey 7.63 

Sir Edward Grey (Viscount Grey of Fallodon) 7.64 

Mervyn Griffith-Jones 7.65 

Leon Griffiths 7.66 

Jo Grimond (Baron Grimond) 7.67 

Philip Guedalla 7.68 

R. Guidry 7.69 

Texas Guinan (Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan) 7.70 

Nubar Gulbenkian 7.71 

Thom Gunn 7.72 

Dorothy Frances Gurney 7.73 

Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) 7.74 

H 8.0 

Earl Haig 8.1 

Lord Hailsham (Baron Hailsham, Quintin Hogg) 8.2 

J. B. S. Haldane 8.3 

H. R. Haldeman 8.4

Sir William Haley 8.5 

Henry Hall 8.6 

Sir Peter Hall 8.7 

Margaret Halsey 8.8 

Oscar Hammerstein II 8.9 

Christopher Hampton 8.10 

Learned Hand 8.11 

Minnie Hanff 8.12 

Brian Hanrahan 8.13 

Otto Harbach 8.14 

E. Y. 'Yip' Harburg 8.15 

Gilbert Harding 8.16 

Warren G. Harding 8.17 

Godfrey Harold Hardy 8.18 

Thomas Hardy 8.19 

Maurice Evan Hare 8.20 

Robertson Hare 8.21 

W. F. Hargreaves 8.22 

Lord Harlech (David Ormsby Gore) 8.23 

Jimmy Harper, Will E. Haines, and Tommie Connor 8.24 

Frank Harris (James Thomas Harris) 8.25 

H. H. Harris 8.26 

Lorenz Hart 8.27 

Moss Hart and George Kaufman 8.28 

L. P. Hartley 8.29 

F. W. Harvey 8.30 

Minnie Louise Haskins 8.31 

Lord Haw-Haw 8.32 

Ian Hay (John Hay Beith) 8.33 

J. Milton Hayes 8.34 

Lee Hazlewood 8.35 

Denis Healey 8.36 

Seamus Heaney 8.37 

Edward Heath 8.38 

Fred Heatherton 8.39 

Robert A. Heinlein 8.40 

Werner Heisenberg 8.41 

Joseph Heller 8.42 

Lillian Hellman 8.43 

Sir Robert Helpmann 8.44 

Ernest Hemingway 8.45 

Arthur W. D. Henley 8.46 

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 8.47 

A. P. Herbert 8.48 

Oliver Herford 8.49 

Jerry Herman 8.50 

June Hershey 8.51 

Hermann Hesse 8.52 

Gordon Hewart (Viscount Hewart) 8.53 

Patricia Hewitt 8.54 

Du Bose Heyward and Ira Gershwin 8.55 

Sir Seymour Hicks 8.56 

Jack Higgins (Henry Patterson) 8.57 

Joe Hill 8.58 

Pattie S. Hill 8.59 

Sir Edmund Hillary 8.60 

Fred Hillebrand 8.61 

Lady Hillingdon 8.62 

James Hilton 8.63 

Alfred Hitchcock 8.64

Adolf Hitler 8.65 

Ralph Hodgson 8.66 

'Red' Hodgson 8.67 

Eric Hoffer 8.68 

Al Hoffman and Dick Manning 8.69 

Gerard Hoffnung 8.70 

Lancelot Hogben 8.71 

Billie Holiday (Eleanor Fagan) and Arthur Herzog Jr. 8.72 

Stanley Holloway 8.73 

John H. Holmes 8.74 

Lord Home (Baron Home of the Hirsel, formerly Sir Alec Douglas-Home) 8.75 

Arthur Honegger 8.76 

Herbert Hoover 8.77 

Anthony Hope (Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins) 8.78 

Bob Hope 8.79 

Francis Hope 8.80 

Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson) 8.81 

Zilphia Horton 8.82 

A. E. Housman 8.83 

Sidney Howard 8.84 

Elbert Hubbard 8.85 

Frank McKinney ('Kin') Hubbard 8.86 

L. Ron Hubbard 8.87 

Howard Hughes Jr. 8.88 

Jimmy Hughes and Frank Lake 8.89 

Langston Hughes 8.90 

Ted Hughes 8.91 

Josephine Hull 8.92 

Hubert Humphrey 8.93 

Herman Hupfeld 8.94 

Aldous Huxley 8.95 

Sir Julian Huxley 8.96 

I 9.0 

Dolores Ibarruri ('La Pasionaria') 9.1 

Henrik Ibsen 9.2 

Harold L. Ickes 9.3 

Eric Idle 9.4 

Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) 9.5 

Ivan Illich 9.6 

Charles Inge 9.7 

William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge) 9.8 

EugŠne Ionesco 9.9 

Weldon J. Irvine 9.10 

Christopher Isherwood 9.11 

J 10.0 

Holbrook Jackson 10.1 

Joe Jacobs 10.2 

Mick Jagger and Keith Richard (Keith Richards) 10.3 

Henry James 10.4 

William James 10.5 

Randall Jarrell 10.6 

Douglas Jay 10.7 

Sir James Jeans 10.8 

Patrick Jenkin 10.9 

Rt. Revd David Jenkins (Bishop of Durham) 10.10 

Roy Jenkins (Baron Jenkins of Hillhead) 10.11 

Paul Jennings 10.12 

Jerome K. Jerome 10.13

William Jerome 10.14 

C. E. M. Joad 10.15 

Pope John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) 10.16 

Lyndon Baines Johnson 10.17 

Philander Chase Johnson 10.18 

Philip Johnson 10.19 

Hanns Johst 10.20 

Al Jolson 10.21 

James Jones 10.22 

LeRoi Jones 10.23 

Erica Jong 10.24 

Janis Joplin 10.25 

Sir Keith Joseph 10.26 

James Joyce 10.27 

William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) 10.28 

Jack Judge and Harry Williams 10.29 

Carl Gustav Jung 10.30 

K 11.0 

Pauline Kael 11.1 

Franz Kafka 11.2 

Gus Kahn and Raymond B. Egan 11.3 

Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman, and Nat Perrin 11.4 

George S. Kaufman 11.5 

George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart 11.6 

George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind 11.7 

Gerald Kaufman 11.8 

Paul Kaufman and Mike Anthony 11.9 

Patrick Kavanagh 11.10 

Ted Kavanagh 11.11 

Helen Keller 11.12 

Jaan Kenbrovin and John William Kellette 11.13 

Florynce Kennedy 11.14 

Jimmy Kennedy 11.15 

Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr 11.16 

Jimmy Kennedy and Hugh Williams (Will Grosz) 11.17 

John F. Kennedy 11.18 

Joseph P. Kennedy 11.19 

Robert F. Kennedy 11.20 

Jack Kerouac 11.21 

Jean Kerr 11.22 

Joseph Kesselring 11.23 

John Maynard Keynes (Baron Keynes) 11.24 

Nikita Khrushchev 11.25 

Joyce Kilmer 11.26 

Lord Kilmuir (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe) 11.27 

Martin Luther King 11.28 

Stoddard King 11.29 

David Kingsley, Dennis Lyons, and Peter Lovell-Davis 11.30 

Hugh Kingsmill (Hugh Kingsmill Lunn) 11.31 

Neil Kinnock 11.32 

Rudyard Kipling 11.33 

Henry Kissinger 11.34 

Fred Kitchen 11.35 

Lord Kitchener 11.36 

Paul Klee 11.37 

Charles Knight and Kenneth Lyle 11.38 

Frederick Knott 11.39 

Monsignor Ronald Knox 11.40 

Arthur Koestler 11.41

Jiddu Krishnamurti 11.42 

Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster 11.43 

Joseph Wood Krutch 11.44 

Stanley Kubrick 11.45 

Satish Kumar 11.46 

L 12.0 

Henry Labouchere 12.1 

Fiorello La Guardia 12.2 

R. D. Laing 12.3 

Arthur J. Lamb 12.4 

Constant Lambert 12.5 

Giuseppe di Lampedusa 12.6 

Sir Osbert Lancaster 12.7 

Bert Lance 12.8 

Andrew Lang 12.9 

Julia Lang 12.10 

Suzanne K. Langer 12.11 

Ring Lardner 12.12 

Philip Larkin 12.13 

Sir Harry Lauder 12.14 

Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) 12.15 

James Laver 12.16 

Andrew Bonar Law 12.17 

D. H. Lawrence 12.18 

T. E. Lawrence 12.19 

Sir Edmund Leach 12.20 

Stephen Leacock 12.21 

Timothy Leary 12.22 

F. R. Leavis 12.23 

Fran Lebowitz 12.24 

Stanislaw Lec 12.25 

John le Carr‚ (David John Moore Cornwell) 12.26 

Le Corbusier (Charles douard Jeanneret) 12.27 

Harper Lee 12.28 

Laurie Lee 12.29 

Ernest Lehman 12.30 

Tom Lehrer 12.31 

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 12.32 

Fred W. Leigh 12.33 

Fred W. Leigh, Charles Collins, and Lily Morris 12.34 

Fred W. Leigh and George Arthurs 12.35 

Curtis E. LeMay 12.36 

Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov) 12.37 

John Lennon 12.38 

John Lennon and Paul McCartney 12.39 

Dan Leno (George Galvin) 12.40 

Alan Jay Lerner 12.41 

Doris Lessing 12.42 

Winifred Mary Letts 12.43 

Oscar Levant 12.44 

Ros Levenstein 12.45 

Viscount Leverhulme (William Hesketh Lever) 12.46 

Ada Leverson 12.47 

Bernard Levin 12.48 

Claude L‚vi-Strauss 12.49 

Cecil Day Lewis 12.50 

C. S. Lewis 12.51 

John Spedan Lewis 12.52 

Percy Wyndham Lewis 12.53

Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young 12.54 

Sinclair Lewis 12.55 

Robert Ley 12.56 

Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 12.57 

Beatrice Lillie 12.58 

R. M. Lindner 12.59 

Audrey Erskine Lindop 12.60 

Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse 12.61 

Vachel Lindsay 12.62 

Eric Linklater 12.63 

Art Linkletter 12.64 

Walter Lippmann 12.65 

Joan Littlewood and Charles Chilton 12.66 

Maxim Litvinov 12.67 

Ken Livingstone 12.68 

Richard Llewellyn (Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd) 12.69 

Jack Llewelyn-Davies 12.70 

David Lloyd George (Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor) 12.71 

David Lodge 12.72 

Frank Loesser 12.73 

Jack London (John Griffith London) 12.74 

Alice Roosevelt Longworth 12.75 

Frederick Lonsdale 12.76 

Anita Loos 12.77 

Frederico Garc¡a Lorca 12.78 

Konrad Lorenz 12.79 

Joe Louis 12.80 

Terry Lovelock 12.81 

Robert Loveman 12.82 

David Low 12.83 

Amy Lowell 12.84 

Robert Lowell 12.85 

L. S. Lowry 12.86 

Malcolm Lowry 12.87 

E. V. Lucas 12.88 

George Lucas 12.89 

Clare Booth Luce 12.90 

Joanna Lumley 12.91 

Sir Edwin Lutyens 12.92 

Rosa Luxemburg 12.93 

Lady Lytton (Pamela Frances Audrey, Countess of Lytton) 12.94 

M 13.0 

Alexander McArthur and H. Kingsley Long 13.1 

Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht 13.2 

General Douglas MacArthur 13.3 

Dame Rose Macaulay 13.4 

General Anthony McAuliffe 13.5 

Sir Desmond MacCarthy 13.6 

Joe McCarthy 13.7 

Joseph McCarthy 13.8 

Mary McCarthy 13.9 

Paul McCartney 13.10 

David McCord 13.11 

Horace McCoy 13.12 

John McCrae 13.13 

Carson McCullers 13.14 

Derek McCulloch 13.15 

Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) 13.16 

Ramsay MacDonald 13.17

A. G. Macdonell 13.18 

John McEnroe 13.19 

Arthur McEwen 13.20 

Roger McGough 13.21 

Sir Ian MacGregor 13.22 

Jimmy McGregor 13.23 

Dennis McHarrie 13.24 

Colin MacInnes 13.25 

Claude McKay 13.26 

Sir Compton Mackenzie 13.27 

Joyce McKinney 13.28 

Alexander Maclaren 13.29 

Alistair Maclean 13.30 

Archibald MacLeish 13.31 

Irene Rutherford McLeod 13.32 

Marshall McLuhan 13.33 

Ed McMahon 13.34 

Harold Macmillan (Lord Stockton) 13.35 

Louis MacNeice 13.36 

Salvador de Madariaga 13.37 

Maurice Maeterlinck 13.38 

John Gillespie Magee 13.39 

Magnus Magnusson 13.40 

Sir John Pentland Mahaffy 13.41 

Gustav Mahler 13.42 

Derek Mahon 13.43 

Norman Mailer 13.44 

Bernard Malamud 13.45 

George Leigh Mallory 13.46 

Andr‚ Malraux 13.47 

Lord Mancroft (Baron Mancroft) 13.48 

Winnie Mandela 13.49 

Osip Mandelstam 13.50 

Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles 13.51 

Joseph L. Mankiewicz 13.52 

Thomas Mann 13.53 

Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp) 13.54 

Mao Tse-Tung 13.55 

Edwin Markham 13.56 

Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham 13.57 

Johnny Marks 13.58 

Don Marquis 13.59 

Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot 13.60 

Arthur Marshall 13.61 

Thomas R. Marshall 13.62 

Dean Martin 13.63 

Holt Marvell 13.64 

Chico Marx 13.65 

Groucho Marx 13.66 

Queen Mary 13.67 

Eric Maschwitz 13.68 

John Masefield 13.69 

Donald Mason 13.70 

Sir James Mathew 13.71 

Melissa Mathison 13.72 

Henri Matisse 13.73 

Reginald Maudling 13.74 

W. Somerset Maugham 13.75 

Bill Mauldin 13.76 

James Maxton 13.77

John May 13.78 

Percy Mayfield 13.79 

Charles H. Mayo 13.80 

Margaret Mead 13.81 

Shepherd Mead 13.82 

Hughes Mearns 13.83 

Dame Nellie Melba (Helen Porter Mitchell) 13.84 

H. L. Mencken 13.85 

David Mercer 13.86 

Johnny Mercer 13.87 

Bob Merrill 13.88 

Dixon Lanier Merritt 13.89 

Viola Meynell 13.90 

Princess Michael of Kent 13.91 

George Mikes 13.92 

Edna St Vincent Millay 13.93 

Alice Duer Miller 13.94 

Arthur Miller 13.95 

Henry Miller 13.96 

Jonathan Miller 13.97 

Spike Milligan (Terence Alan Milligan) 13.98 

A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey, and Bennett Scott 13.99 

Irving Mills 13.100 

A. A. Milne 13.101 

Lord Milner (Alfred, Viscount Milner) 13.102 

Adrian Mitchell 13.103 

Joni Mitchell 13.104 

Margaret Mitchell 13.105 

Jessica Mitford 13.106 

Nancy Mitford 13.107 

Addison Mizner 13.108 

Wilson Mizner 13.109 

Walter Mondale 13.110 

William Cosmo Monkhouse 13.111 

Harold Monro 13.112 

Marilyn Monroe 13.113 

C. E. Montague 13.114 

Field-Marshal Montgomery (Viscount Montgomery of Alamein) 13.115 

George Moore 13.116 

Marianne Moore 13.117 

Larry Morey 13.118 

Robin Morgan 13.119 

Christian Morgenstern 13.120 

Christopher Morley 13.121 

Lord Morley (John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn) 13.122 

Desmond Morris 13.123 

Herbert Morrison (Baron Morrison of Lambeth) 13.124 

Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore 13.125 

R. F. Morrison 13.126 

Dwight Morrow 13.127 

John Mortimer 13.128 

J. B. Morton ('Beachcomber') 13.129 

Rogers Morton 13.130 

Sir Oswald Mosley 13.131 

Lord Louis Mountbatten (Viscount Mountbatten of Burma) 13.132 

Lord Moynihan (Berkeley Moynihan, Baron Moynihan) 13.133 

Robert Mugabe 13.134 

Kitty Muggeridge 13.135 

Malcolm Muggeridge 13.136 

Edwin Muir 13.137

Herbert J. Muller 13.138 

Ethel Watts Mumford, Oliver Herford, and Addison Mizner 13.139 

Lewis Mumford 13.140 

Sir Alfred Munnings 13.141 

Richard Murdoch, and Kenneth Horne 13.142 

C. W. Murphy and Will Letters 13.143 

Ed Murphy 13.144 

Fred Murray 13.145 

Edward R. Murrow 13.146 

Benito Mussolini 13.147 

A. J. Muste 13.148 

N 14.0 

Vladimir Nabokov 14.1 

Ralph Nader 14.2 

Sarojini Naidu 14.3 

Fridtjof Nansen 14.4 

Ogden Nash 14.5 

George Jean Nathan 14.6 

Terry Nation 14.7 

James Ball Naylor 14.8 

Jawaharlal Nehru 14.9 

Allan Nevins 14.10 

Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse 14.11 

Huey Newton 14.12 

Vivian Nicholson 14.13 

Sir Harold Nicolson 14.14 

Reinhold Niebuhr 14.15 

Carl Nielsen 14.16 

Martin Niem”ller 14.17 

Florence Nightingale 14.18 

Richard Milhous Nixon 14.19 

David Nobbs 14.20 

Milton Nobles 14.21 

Albert J. Nock 14.22 

Frank Norman and Lionel Bart 14.23 

Lord Northcliffe (Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe) 14.24 

Jack Norworth 14.25 

Alfred Noyes 14.26 

Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) 14.27 

O 15.0 

Captain Lawrence Oates 15.1 

Edna O'Brien 15.2 

Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan or O Nuallain) 15.3 

Sean O'Casey 15.4 

Edwin O'Connor 15.5 

Se n O'Faol in 15.6 

David Ogilvy 15.7 

Geoffrey O'Hara 15.8 

John O'Hara 15.9 

Patrick O'Keefe 15.10 

Chauncey Olcott and George Graff Jr. 15.11 

Frederick Scott Oliver 15.12 

Laurence Olivier (Baron Olivier of Brighton) 15.13 

Frank Ward O'Malley 15.14 

Mary O'Malley 15.15 

Eugene O'Neill 15.16 

Brian O'Nolan 15.17 

J. Robert Oppenheimer 15.18

Susie Orbach 15.19 

Baroness Orczy 15.20 

David Ormsby Gore 15.21 

Jos‚ Ortega y Gasset 15.22 

Joe Orton 15.23 

George Orwell (Eric Blair) 15.24 

John Osborne 15.25 

Sir William Osler 15.26 

Peter Demianovich Ouspensky 15.27 

David Owen 15.28 

Wilfred Owen 15.29 

Oxford and Asquith, Countess of 15.30 

Oxford and Asquith, Earl of 15.31 

P 16.0 

Vance Packard 16.1 

William Tyler Page 16.2 

Reginald Paget 16.3 

Gerald Page-Wood 16.4 

Revd Ian Paisley 16.5 

Michael Palin 16.6 

Norman Panama and Melvin Frank 16.7 

Dame Christabel Pankhurst 16.8 

Emmeline Pankhurst 16.9 

Emmeline Pankhurst, Dame Christabel Pankhurst, and Annie Kenney 16.10 

Charlie Parker 16.11 

Dorothy Parker 16.12 

Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and Robert Carson 16.13 

Ross Parker and Hugh Charles 16.14 

C. Northcote Parkinson 16.15 

'Banjo' Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson) 16.16 

Alan Paton 16.17 

Norman Vincent Peale 16.18 

Charles S. Pearce 16.19 

Hesketh Pearson 16.20 

Lester Pearson 16.21 

Charles P‚guy 16.22 

Vladimir Peniakoff 16.23 

William H. Penn 16.24 

S. J. Perelman 16.25 

S. J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, and Arthur Sheekman 16.26 

Carl Perkins 16.27 

Frances Perkins 16.28 

Juan Per¢n 16.29 

Ted Persons 16.30 

Henri Philippe P‚tain 16.31 

Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull 16.32 

Kim Philby (Harold Adrian Russell Philby) 16.33 

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 16.34 

Morgan Phillips 16.35 

Stephen Phillips 16.36 

Eden Phillpotts 16.37 

Pablo Picasso 16.38 

Wilfred Pickles 16.39 

Harold Pinter 16.40 

Luigi Pirandello 16.41 

Armand J. Piron 16.42 

Robert Pirosh, George Seaton, and George Oppenheimer 16.43 

Robert M. Pirsig 16.44 

Walter B. Pitkin 16.45

Ruth Pitter 16.46 

Sylvia Plath 16.47 

William Plomer 16.48 

Henri Poincar‚ 16.49 

Georges Pompidou 16.50 

Arthur Ponsonby (first Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede) 16.51 

Sir Karl Popper 16.52 

Cole Porter 16.53 

Beatrix Potter 16.54 

Gillie Potter (Hugh William Peel) 16.55 

Stephen Potter 16.56 

Ezra Pound 16.57 

Anthony Powell 16.58 

Enoch Powell 16.59 

Sandy Powell 16.60 

Vince Powell and Harry Driver 16.61 

Jacques Pr‚vert 16.62 

J. B. Priestley 16.63 

V. S. Pritchett 16.64 

Marcel Proust 16.65 

Olive Higgins Prouty 16.66 

John Pudney 16.67 

Mario Puzo 16.68 

Q 17.0 

Q 17.1 

Salvatore Quasimodo 17.2 

Peter Quennell 17.3 

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (often used the pseudonym 'Q') 17.4 

R 18.0 

James Rado and Gerome Ragni 18.1 

John Rae 18.2 

Milton Rakove 18.3 

Sir Walter Raleigh 18.4 

Srinivasa Ramanujan 18.5 

John Crowe Ransom 18.6 

Arthur Ransome 18.7 

Frederic Raphael 18.8 

Terence Rattigan 18.9 

Gwen Raverat 18.10 

Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank 18.11 

Ted Ray (Charles Olden) 18.12 

Sam Rayburn 18.13 

Sir Herbert Read 18.14 

Nancy Reagan 18.15 

Ronald Reagan 18.16 

Erell Reaves 18.17 

Henry Reed 18.18 

John Reed 18.19 

Max Reger 18.20 

Charles A. Reich 18.21 

Keith Reid and Gary Brooker 18.22 

Erich Maria Remarque 18.23 

Dr Montague John Rendall 18.24 

James Reston 18.25 

David Reuben 18.26 

Charles Revson 18.27 

Malvina Reynolds 18.28 

Quentin Reynolds 18.29

Cecil Rhodes 18.30 

Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams) 18.31 

Grantland Rice 18.32 

Tim Rice 18.33 

Mandy Rice-Davies 18.34 

Dicky Richards 18.35 

Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton) 18.36 

I. A. Richards 18.37 

Sir Ralph Richardson 18.38 

Hans Richter 18.39 

Rainer Maria Rilke 18.40 

Hal Riney 18.41 

Robert L. Ripley 18.42 

C‚sar Ritz 18.43 

Joan Riviere 18.44 

Lord Robbins (Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins) 18.45 

Leo Robin 18.46 

Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger 18.47 

Edwin Arlington Robinson 18.48 

Rt. Rev John Robinson (Bishop of Woolwich) 18.49 

John D. Rockefeller 18.50 

Knute Rockne 18.51 

Cecil Rodd 18.52 

Gene Roddenberry 18.53 

Theodore Roethke 18.54 

Will Rogers 18.55 

Frederick William Rolfe ('Baron Corvo') 18.56 

Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli 18.57 

Eleanor Roosevelt 18.58 

Franklin D. Roosevelt 18.59 

Theodore Roosevelt 18.60 

Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber 18.61 

Billy Rose 18.62 

Billy Rose and Marty Bloom 18.63 

Billy Rose and Willie Raskin 18.64 

William Rose 18.65 

Lord Rosebery (Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery) 18.66 

Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg 18.67 

Alan S. C. Ross 18.68 

Harold Ross 18.69 

Sir Ronald Ross 18.70 

Jean Rostand 18.71 

Leo Rosten 18.72 

Philip Roth 18.73 

Dan Rowan and Dick Martin 18.74 

Helen Rowland 18.75 

Richard Rowland 18.76 

Maude Royden 18.77 

Naomi Royde-Smith 18.78 

Paul Alfred Rubens 18.79 

Damon Runyon 18.80 

Dean Rusk 18.81 

Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William, third Earl Russell) 18.82 

Dora Russell (Countess Russell) 18.83 

George William Russell 18.84 

John Russell 18.85 

Ernest Rutherford (Baron Rutherford of Nelson) 18.86 

Gilbert Ryle 18.87 

S 19.0

Rafael Sabatini 19.1 

Oliver Sacks 19.2 

Victoria ('Vita') Sackville-West 19.3 

Fran‡oise Sagan 19.4 

Antoine de Saint-Exup‚ry 19.5 

George Saintsbury 19.6 

Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) 19.7 

J. D. Salinger 19.8 

Lord Salisbury (Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, fifth Marquess of Salisbury) 19.9 

Anthony Sampson 19.10 

Lord Samuel (Herbert Louis, first Viscount Samuel) 19.11 

Carl Sandburg 19.12 

Henry 'Red' Sanders 19.13 

William Sansom 19.14 

George Santayana 19.15 

'Sapper' (Herman Cyril MacNeile) 19.16 

John Singer Sargent 19.17 

Leslie Sarony 19.18 

Nathalie Sarraute 19.19 

Jean-Paul Sartre 19.20 

Siegfried Sassoon 19.21 

Erik Satie 19.22 

Telly Savalas 19.23 

Dorothy L. Sayers 19.24 

Al Scalpone 19.25 

Hugh Scanlon (Baron Scanlon) 19.26 

Arthur Scargill 19.27 

Age Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Sergio Leone 19.28 

Moritz Schlick 19.29 

Artur Schnabel 19.30 

Arnold Schoenberg 19.31 

Budd Schulberg 19.32 

Diane B. Schulder 19.33 

E. F. Schumacher 19.34 

Albert Schweitzer 19.35 

Kurt Schwitters 19.36 

Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin 19.37 

C. P. Scott 19.38 

Paul Scott 19.39 

Robert Falcon Scott 19.40 

Florida Scott-Maxwell 19.41 

Alan Seeger 19.42 

Pete Seeger 19.43 

Erich Segal 19.44 

W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman 19.45 

Robert W. Service 19.46 

Anne Sexton 19.47 

James Seymour and Rian James 19.48 

Peter Shaffer 19.49 

Eileen Shanahan 19.50 

Bill Shankly 19.51 

Tom Sharpe 19.52 

George Bernard Shaw 19.53 

Sir Hartley Shawcross (Baron Shawcross) 19.54 

Patrick Shaw-Stewart 19.55 

Gloria Shayne 19.56 

E. A. Sheppard 19.57 

Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart 19.58 

Emanuel Shinwell (Baron Shinwell) 19.59 

Jean Sibelius 19.60

Walter Sickert 19.61 

Maurice Sigler and Al Hoffman 19.62 

Alan Sillitoe 19.63 

Frank Silver and Irving Cohn 19.64 

Georges Simenon 19.65 

James Simmons 19.66 

Paul Simon 19.67 

Harold Simpson 19.68 

Kirke Simpson 19.69 

N. F. Simpson 19.70 

Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake 19.71 

C. H. Sisson 19.72 

Dame Edith Sitwell 19.73 

Sir Osbert Sitwell 19.74 

'Red Skelton' (Richard Skelton) 19.75 

B. F. Skinner 19.76 

Elizabeth Smart 19.77 

Alfred Emanuel Smith 19.78 

Sir Cyril Smith 19.79 

Dodie Smith 19.80 

Edgar Smith 19.81 

F. E. Smith (Earl of Birkenhead) 19.82 

Ian Smith 19.83 

Logan Pearsall Smith 19.84 

Stevie Smith (Florence Margaret Smith) 19.85 

John Snagge 19.86 

C. P. Snow (Baron Snow of Leicester) 19.87 

Philip Snowden (Viscount Snowden) 19.88 

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 19.89 

Anastasio Somoza 19.90 

Stephen Sondheim 19.91 

Susan Sontag 19.92 

Donald Soper (Baron Soper) 19.93 

Charles Hamilton Sorley 19.94 

Henry D. Spalding 19.95 

Muriel Spark 19.96 

John Sparrow 19.97 

Countess Spencer (Raine Spencer) 19.98 

Sir Stanley Spencer 19.99 

Stephen Spender 19.100 

Oswald Spengler 19.101 

Steven Spielberg 19.102 

Dr Benjamin Spock 19.103 

William Archibald Spooner 19.104 

Sir Cecil Spring Rice 19.105 

Bruce Springsteen 19.106 

Sir J. C. Squire 19.107 

Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) 19.108 

Charles E. Stanton 19.109 

Frank L. Stanton 19.110 

Dame Freya Stark 19.111 

Enid Starkie 19.112 

Christina Stead 19.113 

Sir David Steel 19.114 

Lincoln Steffens 19.115 

Gertrude Stein 19.116 

John Steinbeck 19.117 

Gloria Steinem 19.118 

James Stephens 19.119 

Andrew B. Sterling 19.120

Wallace Stevens 19.121 

Adlai Stevenson 19.122 

Anne Stevenson 19.123 

Caskie Stinnett 19.124 

Rt. Revd Mervyn Stockwood 19.125 

Tom Stoppard 19.126 

Lytton Strachey 19.127 

Igor Stravinsky 19.128 

Simeon Strunsky 19.129 

G. A. Studdert Kennedy 19.130 

Terry Sullivan 19.131 

Arthur Hays Sulzberger 19.132 

Edith Summerskill 19.133 

Jacqueline Susann (Mrs Irving Mansfield) 19.134 

Hannen Swaffer 19.135 

Herbert Bayard Swope 19.136 

Eric Sykes and Max Bygraves 19.137 

John Millington Synge 19.138 

Thomas Szasz 19.139 

George Szell 19.140 

Albert von Szent-Gy”rgyi 19.141 

T 20.0 

Sir Rabindranath Tagore 20.1 

Nellie Talbot 20.2 

S. G. Tallentyre (E. Beatrice Hall) 20.3 

Booth Tarkington 20.4 

A. J. P. Taylor 20.5 

Bert Leston Taylor 20.6 

Norman Tebbit 20.7 

Archbishop William Temple 20.8 

A. S. J. Tessimond 20.9 

Margaret Thatcher 20.10 

Sam Theard and Fleecie Moore 20.11 

Diane Thomas 20.12 

Dylan Thomas 20.13 

Edward Thomas 20.14 

Gwyn Thomas 20.15 

Francis Thompson 20.16 

Hunter S. Thompson 20.17 

Lord Thomson (Roy Herbert Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet) 20.18 

Jeremy Thorpe 20.19 

James Thurber 20.20 

Paul Tillich 20.21 

Dion Titheradge 20.22 

Alvin Toffler 20.23 

J. R. R. Tolkien 20.24 

Nicholas Tomalin 20.25 

Barry Took and Marty Feldman 20.26 

Sue Townsend 20.27 

Pete Townshend 20.28 

Polly Toynbee 20.29 

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree 20.30 

Herbert Trench 20.31 

G. M. Trevelyan 20.32 

Lionel Trilling 20.33 

Tommy Trinder 20.34 

Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) 20.35 

Harry S. Truman 20.36 

Barbara W. Tuchman 20.37

Sophie Tucker 20.38 

Walter James Redfern Turner 20.39 

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 20.40 

Kenneth Tynan 20.41 

U 21.0 

Miguel de Unamuno 21.1 

John Updike 21.2 

Sir Peter Ustinov 21.3 

V 22.0 

Paul Val‚ry 22.1 

Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss 22.2 

Vivien van Damm 22.3 

Laurens van der Post 22.4 

Bartolomeo Vanzetti 22.5 

Harry Vaughan 22.6 

Ralph Vaughan Williams 22.7 

Thorstein Veblen 22.8 

Gore Vidal 22.9 

King Vidor 22.10 

Jos‚ Antonio Viera Gallo 22.11 

W 23.0 

John Wain 23.1 

Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay 23.2 

Prince of Wales 23.3 

Arthur Waley 23.4 

Edgar Wallace 23.5 

George Wallace 23.6 

Henry Wallace 23.7 

Graham Wallas 23.8 

Sir Hugh Walpole 23.9 

Andy Warhol 23.10 

Jack Warner (Horace Waters) 23.11 

Ned Washington 23.12 

Sir William Watson 23.13 

Evelyn Waugh 23.14 

Frederick Weatherly 23.15 

Beatrice Webb 23.16 

Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason 23.17 

Jim Webb 23.18 

Sidney Webb (Baron Passfield) 23.19 

Sidney Webb (Baron Passfield) and Beatrice Webb 23.20 

Simone Weil 23.21 

Johnny Weissmuller 23.22 

Thomas Earle Welby 23.23 

Fay Weldon 23.24 

Colin Welland 23.25 

Orson Welles 23.26 

H. G. Wells 23.27 

Arnold Wesker 23.28 

Mae West 23.29 

Dame Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Fairfield) 23.30 

Edith Wharton 23.31 

E. B. White 23.32 

T. H. White 23.33 

Alfred North Whitehead 23.34 

Bertrand Whitehead 23.35 

Katharine Whitehorn 23.36

George Whiting 23.37 

Gough Whitlam 23.38 

Charlotte Whitton 23.39 

William H. Whyte 23.40 

Anna Wickham (Edith Alice Mary Harper) 23.41 

Richard Wilbur 23.42 

Billy Wilder (Samuel Wilder) 23.43 

Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond 23.44 

Thornton Wilder 23.45 

Kaiser Wilhelm II 23.46 

Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle 23.47 

Harry Williams 23.48 

Kenneth Williams 23.49 

Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) 23.50 

William Carlos Williams 23.51 

Ted Willis (Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis of Chislehurst) 23.52 

Wendell Willkie 23.53 

Angus Wilson 23.54 

Charles E. Wilson 23.55 

Edmund Wilson 23.56 

Harold Wilson (Baron Wilson of Rievaulx) 23.57 

McLandburgh Wilson 23.58 

Sandy Wilson 23.59 

Woodrow Wilson 23.60 

Robb Wilton 23.61 

Arthur Wimperis 23.62 

Owen Wister 23.63 

Ludwig Wittgenstein 23.64 

P. G. Wodehouse 23.65 

Humbert Wolfe 23.66 

Thomas Wolfe 23.67 

Tom Wolfe 23.68 

Woodbine Willie 23.69 

Lt.-Commander Thomas Woodroofe 23.70 

Harry Woods 23.71 

Virginia Woolf 23.72 

Alexander Woollcott 23.73 

Frank Lloyd Wright 23.74 

Woodrow Wyatt (Baron Wyatt) 23.75 

Laurie Wyman 23.76 

George Wyndham 23.77 

Tammy Wynette (Wynette Pugh) and Billy Sherrill 23.78 

Y 24.0 

R. J. Yeatman 24.1 

W. B. Yeats 24.2 

Jack Yellen 24.3 

Michael Young 24.4 

Waldemar Young et al. 24.5 

Z 25.0 

Darryl F. Zanuck 25.1 

Emiliano Zapata 25.2 

Frank Zappa 25.3 

Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale 25.4 

Ronald L. Ziegler 25.5 

Grigori Zinoviev 25.6 

1.0 A 

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1.1 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello (Louis Francis Cristillo) 

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Bud Abbott 1895-1974 

Lou Costello 1906-1959 

Abbott: Now, on the St Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on 

second, I Don't Know is on third. 

Costello: That's what I want to find out. 

Naughty Nineties (1945 film), in R. J. Anobile Who's On First? (1973) 

p. 224 

1.2 Dannie Abse 

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1923- 

I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, 

But not when it ripens in a tumour; 

And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, 

In limbs that fester are not springlike. 

A Small Desperation (1968) "Pathology of Colours" 

So in the simple blessing of a rainbow, 

In the bevelled edge of a sunlit mirror, 

I have seen visible, Death's artifact 

Like a soldier's ribbon on a tunic tacked. 

A Small Desperation (1968) "Pathology of Colours" 

That Greek one then is my hero, who watched the bath water rise above his 

navel and rushed out naked, "I found it, I found it" into the street in 

all his shining, and forgot that others would only stare at his genitals. 

Walking under Water (1952) "Letter to Alex Comfort" 

1.3 Goodman Ace 

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1899-1982 

Jane and I got mixed up with a television show--or as we call it back east 

here: TV--a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. 

However, it is our latest medium--we call it a medium because nothing's 

well done. It was discovered, I suppose you've heard, by a man named 

Fulton Berle, and it has already revolutionized social grace by cutting 

down parlour conversation to two sentences: "What's on television?" and 

"Good night." 

Letter to Groucho Marx, in The Groucho Letters (1967) p. 114 

1.4 Dean Acheson 

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1893-1971 

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not

always easy to achieve. 

In Observer 21 June 1970 

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful 

employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public 

office. 

In Time 22 Dec. 1952 

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. 

Speech at the Military Academy, West Point, 5 Dec. 1962, in Vital 

Speeches 1 Jan. 1963, p. 163 

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the 

writer. 

In Wall Street Journal 8 Sept. 1977 

1.5 J. R. Ackerley 

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1896-1967 

I was born in 1896 and my parents were married in 1919. 

My Father and Myself (1968) ch. 1 

1.6 Douglas Adams 

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1952- 

Don't panic. 

Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) preface 

"Life," said Marvin, "don't talk to me about Life." 

Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) ch. 11 

And of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left 

hand side. 


The Answer to the Great Question Of....Life, the Universe and 

Everything....Is....Forty-two. 


"The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second 

ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't 

enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline." 

Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) ch. 18 

1.7 Frank Adams and Will M. Hough 

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I wonder who's kissing her now. 

Title of song (1909) 

1.8 Franklin P. Adams 

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1881-1960

When the political columnists say "Every thinking man" they mean 

themselves, and when candidates appeal to "Every intelligent voter" they 

mean everybody who is going to vote for them. 

Nods and Becks (1944) p. 3 

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead centre of middle age. It 

occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to 

the net. 


The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who 

believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of 

the people all of the time. 


Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote 

against somebody rather than for somebody. 


1.9 Henry Brooks Adams 

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1838-1918 

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the 

systematic organization of hatreds. 

Education of Henry Adams (1907) ch. 1 

A friend in power is a friend lost. 


Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. 


One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. 

Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a 

rivalry of aim. 


What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know 

how to learn. 


Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. 


Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the 

human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world. 

Letter 11 Apr. 1862, in Letters of Henry Adams (1982) vol. 1, p. 290 

1.10 Harold Adamson 

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1906-1980 

Comin' in on a wing and a pray'r. 


1.11 George Ade 

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1866-1944 

"Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college. 

Chicago Record 16 Mar. 1898, "The Steel Box" 

Anybody can Win, unless there happens to be a Second Entry. 

Fables in Slang (1900) p. 133 

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write 

for posterity. 

Fables in Slang (1900) p. 158 

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. 

Forty Modern Fables (1901) p. 218 

R-E-M-O-R-S-E! 

Those dry Martinis did the work for me; 

Last night at twelve I felt immense, 

Today I feel like thirty cents. 

My eyes are bleared, my coppers hot, 

I'll try to eat, but I cannot. 

It is no time for mirth and laughter, 

The cold, gray dawn of the morning after. 

Sultan of Sulu (1903) act 2, p. 63 

1.12 Konrad Adenauer 

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1876-1967 

A thick skin is a gift from God. 

In New York Times 30 Dec. 1959, p. 5 

1.13 Alfred Adler 

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1870-1937 

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. 

In Phyllis Bottome Alfred Adler (1939) p. 76 

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, 

and even to murder, for the truth. 

Problems of Neurosis (1929) ch. 2 

1.14 Polly Adler 

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1900-1962 

A house is not a home. 

Title of book (1954) 

1.15 AE (A.E., ’) (George William Russell) 

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1867-1935 

In ancient shadows and twilights

Where childhood had strayed, 

The world's great sorrows were born 

And its heroes were made. 

In the lost boyhood of Judas 

Christ was betrayed. 

Vale and Other Poems (1931) "Germinal" 

1.16 Herbert Agar 

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1897-1980 

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men 

prefer not to hear. 

Time for Greatness (1942) ch. 7 

1.17 James Agate 

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1877-1947 

I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and 

I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an 

actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not 

a bed to be made and re-made. 

Ego 6 (1944) 9 June 1943 

1.18 Spiro T. Agnew 

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1918- 

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them 

and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum 

you've seen them all. 

In Detroit Free Press 19 Oct. 1968 

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of 

impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. 

Speech in New Orleans, 19 Oct. 1969, in Frankly Speaking (1970) ch. 3 

1.19 Max Aitken 

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See Lord Beaverbrook (2.35) 

1.20 Zo‰ Akins 

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1886-1958 

The Greeks had a word for it. 

Title of play (1930) 

1.21 Alain (mile-Auguste Chartier) 

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1868-1951

Rien n'est plus dangereux qu'une id‚e,quand on n'a qu'une id‚e. 

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea. 

Propos sur la religion (Remarks on Religion, 1938) no. 74 

1.22 Edward Albee 

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1928- 

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? 

Title of play (1962). Cf. Frank E. Churchill 

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour. 

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) act 1 

1.23 Richard Aldington 

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1892-1962 

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is 

a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill. 

Colonel's Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6 

1.24 Brian Aldiss 

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1925- 

Keep violence in the mind 

Where it belongs. 

Barefoot in the Head (1969) (last lines of concluding poem "Charteris") 

1.25 Nelson Algren 

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1909- 

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called 

Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. 

In Newsweek 2 July 1956 

A walk on the wild side. 

Title of novel (1956) 

I got a glimpse into the uses of a certain kind of criticism this past 

summer at a writers' conference into how the avocation of assessing the 

failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, 

providing you back it up with a Ph.D. I saw how it was possible to gain a 

chair of literature on no qualification other than persistence in nipping 

the heels of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck. I know, of course, that 

there are true critics, one or two. For the rest all I can say is, Deal 

around me. 

In Malcolm Cowley (ed.) Writers at Work (1958) 1st Ser. p. 222 

1.26 Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) 

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1942-

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. 

Catch-phrase used from circa 1964, in G. Sullivan Cassius Clay Story 

(1964) ch. 8 

I'm the greatest. 

Catch-phrase used from 1962, in Louisville Times 16 Nov. 1962 

1.27 Fred Allen (John Florence Sullivan) 

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1894-1956 

California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange. 

American Magazine Dec. 1945, p. 120 

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. 

In Maurice Zolotow No People like Show People (1951) ch. 8 

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group 

decide that nothing can be done. 

In Laurence J. Peter Quotations for our Time (1978) p. 120 

1.28 Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg) 

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1935- 

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it 

happens. 

Death (1975) p. 63 

Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. 

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (1972 film) 

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the 

worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. 

Love and Death (1975 film) 

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much 

sleep. 

New Republic 31 Aug. 1974 "The Scrolls" 

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. 

New Yorker 27 Dec. 1969 "My Philosophy" 

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in 

my name at a Swiss bank. 

New Yorker 5 Nov. 1973 "Selections from the Allen Notebooks" 

On bisexuality: It immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday 

night. 

New York Times 1 Dec. 1975, p. 33 

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path 

leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. 

Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. 

Side Effects (1980) "My Speech to the Graduates" 

Take the money and run.

Title of film (1968) 

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as 

easily lying down. 

Without Feathers (1976) "Early Essays" 

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. 

Without Feathers (1976) "Early Essays" 

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. 

Epigraph to Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975) 

And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into 

action immediately: They rent out my room. 

In Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975) ch. 1 

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work....I want to achieve 

it through not dying. 

In Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975) ch. 12 

It was partially my fault that we got divorced.... I tended to place my 

wife under a pedestal. 

At night-club in Chicago, Mar. 1964, recorded on Woody Allen Volume Two 

(Colpix CP 488) side 1, band 6 

I must say...a fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go 

to bed with me and she said "no." 

At night-club in Washington, Apr. 1965, recorded on Woody Allen Volume Two 

(Colpix CP 488) side 4, band 6 

1.29 Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg) and Marshall Brickman 

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Woody Allen 1935- 

Marshall Brickman 1941- 

That [sex] was the most fun I ever had without laughing. 

Annie Hall (1977 film) 

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love. 


I feel that life is--is divided up into the horrible and the miserable. 


My brain? It's my second favourite organ. 

Sleeper (1973 film) 

I'm not the heroic type, really. I was beaten up by Quakers. 

Sleeper (1973 film) 

1.30 Margery Allingham 

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1904-1966 

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear. 

Flowers for the Judge (1936) ch. 4

1.31 Joseph Alsop 

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Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. 

In Observer 30 Nov. 1952 

1.32 Robert Altman 

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1922- 

After all, what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a 

minority. 

In Guardian 11 Apr. 1981 

1.33 Leo Amery 

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1873-1955 

I will quote certain other words. I do it with great reluctance, because I 

am speaking of those who are old friends and associates of mine, but they 

are words which, I think, are applicable to the present situation. This is 

what Cromwell said to the Long Parliament when he thought it was no longer 

fit to conduct the affairs of the nation: "You have sat too long here for 

any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with 

you. In the name of God, go." 

Hansard 7 May 1940, col. 1150. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 

169:26 

Speak for England. 

Said to Arthur Greenwood in House of Commons, 2 Sept. 1939, in L. Amery 

My Political Life (1955) vol. 3, p. 324 

For twenty years he [H. H. Asquith] has held a season-ticket on the line 

of least resistance and has gone wherever the train of events has carried 

him, lucidly justifying his position at whatever point he has happened to 

find himself. 

Quarterly Review July 1914, p. 276 

1.34 Kingsley Amis 

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1922- 

The delusion that there are thousands of young people about who are 

capable of benefiting from university training, but have somehow failed to 

find their way there, is...a necessary component of the expansionist 

case....More will mean worse. 

Encounter July 1960 

The point about white Burgundies is that I hate them myself. I take 

whatever my wine supplier will let me have at a good price (which I would 

never dream of doing with any other drinkable). I enjoyed seeing those 

glasses of Chablis or Pouilly Fuiss‚, so closely resembling a blend of 

cold chalk soup and alum cordial with an additive or two to bring it to 

the colour of children's pee, being peered and sniffed at, rolled round 

the shrinking tongue and forced down somehow by parties of young 

technology dons from Cambridge or junior television producers and their

girls. 

The Green Man (1969) ch. 1 

Dixon...tried to flail his features into some sort of response to humour. 

Mentally, however, he was making a different face and promising himself 

he'd make it actually when next alone. He'd draw his lower lip in under 

his top teeth and by degrees retract his chin as far as possible, all this 

while dilating his eyes and nostrils. By these means he would, he was 

confident, cause a deep dangerous flush to suffuse his face. 

Lucky Jim (1953) ch. 1 

Alun's life was coming to consist more and more exclusively of being told 

at dictation speed what he knew. 

The Old Devils (1986) ch. 7 

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. 

One Fat Englishman (1963) ch. 3. See also Cyril Connolly (3.85) and 

George Orwell (15.24) 

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did 

not attend was Catholic. 

One Fat Englishman (1963) ch. 8 

1.35 Maxwell Anderson 

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1888-1959 

But it's a long, long while 

From May to December; 

And the days grow short 

When you reach September. 

September Song (1938 song; music by Kurt Weill) 

1.36 Maxwell Anderson and Lawrence Stallings 

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Maxwell Anderson 1888-1959 

Lawrence Stallings 1894-1968 

What price glory? 


1.37 Robert Anderson 

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1917- 

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little 

tea and sympathy. 

Tea and Sympathy (1957) act 1 

1.38 James Anderton 

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1932- 

God works in mysterious ways. Given my love of God and my belief in God 

and in Jesus Christ, I have to accept that I may well be used by God in

this way [as a prophet]. 

In radio interview, 18 Jan. 1987, in Daily Telegraph 19 Jan. 1987 

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a 

human cesspit of their own making. 

Speech at seminar on AIDS, 11 Dec. 1986, in Guardian 12 Dec. 1986 

1.39 Sir Norman Angell 

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1872-1967 

The great illusion. 

Title of book (1910), first published as "Europe's optical illusion" 

(1909), on the futility of war 

1.40 Maya Angelou (Maya Johnson) 

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1928- 

I know why the caged bird sings. 

Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul 

Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of 

Quotations (1979) 567:10 

1.41 Paul Anka 

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1941- 

And now the end is near 

And so I face the final curtain, 

My friend, I'll say it clear, 

I'll state my case of which I'm certain. 

I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and ev'ry highway 

And more, much more than this. I did it my way. 

My Way (1969 song; music by Claude Fran‡ois and Jacques Revaux) 

1.42 Princess Anne (HRH the Princess Royal) 

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1950- 

It could be said that the Aids pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by 

the human race against itself. 

In Daily Telegraph 27 Jan. 1988 

1.43 Anonymous 

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Access--your flexible friend. 

Advertising slogan for Access credit cards, 1981 onwards, in Nigel Rees 

Slogans (1982) p. 91 

All the way with LBJ. 

US Democratic Party campaign slogan, in Washington Post 4 June 1960 

American Express?...That'll do nicely, sir.

Advertisement for American Express credit card, 1970s, in F. Jenkins 

Advertising (1985) ch. 1 

Arbeit macht frei. 

Work liberates. 

Words inscribed on the gates of Dachau concentration camp, 1933 

Australians wouldn't give a XXXX for anything else. 

Advertisement for Castlemaine lager, 1986 onwards, in Philip Kleinman The 

Saatchi and Saatchi Story (1987) ch. 5 

Ban the bomb. 

US anti-nuclear slogan, 1953 onwards, adopted by the Campaign for Nuclear 

Disarmament 

A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end. 

British pacifist slogan (1940) 

The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes 

off. 

Contributor to British Army Journal, in Observer 20 Feb. 1949 

Better red than dead. 

Slogan of nuclear disarmament campaigners, late 1950s 

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same. 

In Erica Jong Fear of Flying (1973) ch. 1 (epigraph) 

A bigger bang for a buck. 

Description of Charles E. Wilson's defence policy, in Newsweek 22 Mar. 

1954 

Black is beautiful. 

Slogan of American civil rights campaigners in the mid-1960s, cited in 

Newsweek 11 July 1966 

Burn, baby, burn. 

Black extremist slogan used in Los Angeles riots, August 1965, in Los 

Angeles Times 15 Aug 1965, p. 1 

The butler did it! 

In Nigel Rees Sayings of the Century (1984) p. 45 (as a solution for 

detective stories. Rees cannot trace the origin of the phrase, but he 

quotes a correspondent who recalls hearing it at a cinema circa 1916) 

A camel is a horse designed by a committee. 

In Financial Times 31 Jan. 1976 

Can't act. Slightly bald. Also dances. 

Studio official's comment on Fred Astaire, in Bob Thomas Astaire (1985) 

ch. 3 

Can you tell Stork from butter? 

Advertisement for Stork margarine, from circa 1956 

Careless talk costs lives. 

World War II publicity slogan, in J. Darracott and B. Loftus Second World 

War Posters (1972) p. 28

Coughs and sneezes spread diseases. Trap the germs in your handkerchief. 

1942 health slogan, in J. Darracott and B. Loftus Second World War 

Posters (1972) p. 19 

[Death is] nature's way of telling you to slow down. 

Newsweek, 25 Apr. 1960, p. 70 

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate in any way. 

1950s instruction on punched cards, found in various forms circa 1935 

onwards 

Don't ask a man to drink and drive. 

UK road safety slogan, from 1964 

Don't die of ignorance. 

Slogan used in AIDS publicity campaign, 1987: see The Times 9 and 13 Jan. 

1987 

Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Fhrer. 

One realm, one people, one leader. 

Nazi Party slogan, early 1930s 

Even your closest friends won't tell you. 

US advertisement for Listerine mouthwash, in Woman's Home Companion Nov. 

1923, p. 63 

Every picture tells a story. 

Advertisement for Doan's Backache Kidney Pills, in Daily Mail 26 Feb. 

1904 

Expletive deleted. 

Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the 

Judiciary of the House of Representatives by President Richard M. Nixon 30 

Apr. 1974, app. 1, p. 2 

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to 

leap tall buildings at a single bound! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! 

It's a plane! It's Superman! Yes, it's Superman! Strange visitor from 

another planet, who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond 

those of mortal men. Superman! Who can change the course of mighty rivers, 

bend steel with his bare hands, and who--disguised as Clark Kent, 

mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper--fights a never 

ending battle for truth, justice and the American way! 

Preamble to Superman, US radio show, 1940 onwards 

The following is a copy of Orders issued by the German Emperor on August 

19th: "It is my Royal and Imperial command that you concentrate your 

energies for the immediate present upon one single purpose, and that is 

that you address all your skill and all the valour of my soldiers to 

exterminate first, the treacherous English, walk over General French's 

contemptible little army...." 

Annexe to B.E.F. [British Expeditionary Force] Routine Orders of 24 

September 1914, in Arthur Ponsonby Falsehood in Wartime (1928) ch. 10 

(although this is often attributed to Kaiser Wilhelm II, it was most 

probably fabricated by the British) 

Frankie and Albert were lovers, O Lordy, how they could love. 

Swore to be true to each other, true as the stars above; 

He was her man, but he done her wrong.

"Frankie and Albert" in John Huston Frankie and Johnny (1930) p. 95 (St 

Louis ballad later better known as "Frankie and Johnny") 

Full of Eastern promise. 

Advertising slogan for Fry's Turkish Delight, 1950s onwards 

God gave Noah the rainbow sign, 

No more water, the fire next time. 

Home in that Rock (Negro spiritual). Cf. James Baldwin 16:14 

God is not dead but alive and working on a much less ambitious project. 

Graffito quoted in Guardian 26 Nov. 1975 

Gotcha! 

Headline on the sinking of the General Belgrano, in Sun 4 May 1982 

Go to work on an egg. 

Advertising slogan for the British Egg Marketing Board, from 1957; perhaps 

written by Fay Weldon or Mary Gowing: see Nigel Rees Slogans (1982) p. 133 

The Governments of the States parties to this Constitution on behalf of 

their peoples declare, that since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in 

the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed. 

Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural 

Organisation (1945), in UK Parliamentary Papers 1945-6 vol. 26 

The hands that do dishes can be soft as your face, with mild green Fairy 

Liquid. 

Advertising slogan for Procter & Gamble's washing-up liquid 

Hark the herald angels sing 

Mrs Simpson's pinched our king. 

1936 children's rhyme quoted in letter from Clement Attlee, 26 Dec. 

1938, in Kenneth Harris Attlee (1982) ch. 11 

Have you heard? The Prime Minister [Lloyd George] has resigned and 

Northcliffe has sent for the King. 

1919 saying in Hamilton Fyfe Northcliffe, an Intimate Biography (1930) 

ch. 16 

Here we go, here we go, here we go. 

Song sung by football supporters etc., 1980s 

His [W. S. Gilbert's] foe was folly and his weapon wit. 

Inscription on memorial to Gilbert on the Victoria Embankment, London, 

1915 

I don't like the family Stein! 

There is Gert, there is Ep, there is Ein. 

Gert's writings are punk, 

Ep's statues are junk, 

Nor can anyone understand Ein. 

In R. Graves and A. Hodge The Long Weekend (1940) ch. 12 (rhyme current in 

the USA in the 1920s) 

If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't 

pick it up, paint it. 

1940s saying, in Paul Dickson The Official Rules (1978) p. 21 

If you want to get ahead, get a hat.

Advertising slogan for the Hat Council, UK, 1965 

Ils ne passeront pas. 

They shall not pass. 

Slogan used by French army at defence of Verdun in 1916 ; variously 

attributed to Marshal P‚tain and to General Robert Nivelle. Cf. Dolores 

Ibarruri 109:18 

I'm backing Britain. 

Slogan coined by workers at the Colt factory, Surbiton, Surrey and 

subsequently used in a national campaign, in The Times 1 Jan. 1968 

I'm worried about Jim. 

Frequent line in Mrs Dale's Diary, BBC radio series 1948-69: see Denis 

Gifford The Golden Age of Radio (1985) p. 179 (where the line is given as 

"I'm a little worried about Jim") 

The iron lady. 

In Sunday Times 25 Jan. 1976 (name given to Margaret Thatcher, then Leader 

of the Opposition, by the Soviet defence ministry newspaper Red Star, 

which accused her of trying to revive the cold war) 

Is your journey really necessary? 

1939 slogan (coined to discourage Civil Servants from going home for 

Christmas), in Norman Longmate How We Lived Then (1971) ch. 25 

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it. 

Comment by unidentified United States Army Major in Associated Press 

Report, New York Times 8 Feb. 1968 [the town referred to is Ben Tre, 

Vietnam] 

It's for you-hoo! 

Slogan for British Telecom television advertisements, 1985 onwards 

It's that man again...! At the head of a cavalcade of seven black motor 

cars Hitler swept out of his Berlin Chancellery last night on a mystery 

journey. 

Headline in Daily Express 2 May 1939 [the abbreviation ITMA was used as 

title of a BBC radio show from 19 Sept. 1939] 

It will play in Peoria. 

In New York Times 9 June 1973 (catch-phrase of the Nixon administration) 

Je suis Marxiste--tendance Groucho. 

I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency. 

Slogan used at Nanterre in Paris, 1968 

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. 

Advertisement for Jaws 2 (1978 film) 

Kentucky Fried Chicken...."It's finger lickin' good." 

American Restaurant Magazine June 1958 

King's Moll Reno'd in Wolsey's Home Town. 

In Frances Donaldson Edward VIII (1974) ch. 7 (American newspaper headline 

referring to Mrs Simpson's divorce proceedings in Ipswich) 

Labour isn't working.

In Philip Kleinman The Saatchi and Saatchi Story (1987) ch. 2 (British 

Conservative Party slogan, 1978-9, on poster showing a long queue outside 

an unemployment office) 

LBJ, LBJ, how many kids have you killed today? 

In Jacquin Sanders The Draft and the Vietnam War (1966) ch. 3 

(anti-Vietnam marching slogan) 

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini. 

Line coined in 1920s by press agent for Robert Benchley (and often 

attributed to Benchley), in Howard Teichmann Smart Alec (1976) ch. 9. Cf. 

Mae West 225:10 

Let the train take the strain. 

British Rail advertising slogan, 1970 onwards 

Let your fingers do the walking. 

1960s advertisement for Bell system Telephone Directory Yellow Pages, in 

Harold S. Sharp Advertising Slogans of America (1984) p. 44 

Liberty is always unfinished business. 

Title of 36th Annual Report of the American Civil Liberties Union, 

July 1955 -30 June 1956 

Life is a sexually transmitted disease. 

In D. J. Enright (ed.) Faber Book of Fevers and Frets (1989) (graffito in 

the London Underground) 

Life's better with the Conservatives. Don't let Labour ruin it. 

In David Butler and Richard Rose British General Election of 1959 (1960) 

ch. 3 (Conservative Party election slogan) 

Lloyd George knows my father, 

My father knows Lloyd George. 

Comic song consisting of these two lines sung over and over again to the 

tune of Onward, Christian Soldiers, perhaps originally by Tommy Rhys 

Roberts (1910-75); sometimes with "knew" instead of "knows" 

Lousy but loyal. 

London East End slogan at George V's Jubilee (1935), in Nigel Rees Slogans 

(1982) 

Mademoiselle from Armenteers, 

Hasn't been kissed for forty years, 

Hinky, dinky, parley-voo. 

Song of World War I, variously ascribed to Edward Rowland and Harry 

Carlton 

Make do and mend. 

Wartime slogan, 1940s 

Make love not war. 

Student slogan, 1960s 

The man from Del Monte says "Yes." 

Advertising slogan for tinned fruit, 1985 

The man you love to hate. 

Billing for Erich von Stroheim in the film The Heart of Humanity (1918), 

in Peter Noble Hollywood Scapegoat (1950) ch. 2

Mother may I go and bathe? 

Yes, my darling daughter. 

Hang your clothes on yonder tree, 

But don't go near the water. 

In Iona and Peter Opie Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) p. 314. 

Cf. Walter de la Mare 66:20 

The nearest thing to death in life 

Is David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 

Though underneath that gloomy shell 

He does himself extremely well. 

In E. Grierson Confessions of a Country Magistrate (1972) p. 35 (rhyme 

about Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, said to have been current on the Northern 

circuit in the late 1930s) 

Nil carborundum illegitimi. 

Mock-Latin proverb translated as "Don't let the bastards grind you down"; 

often simply "nil carborundum" or "illegitimi non carborundum" 

No manager ever got fired for buying IBM. 

IBM advertising slogan 

Nice one, Cyril. 

1972 television advertising campaign for Wonderloaf; taken up by 

supporters of Cyril Knowles, Tottenham Hotspur footballer; the Spurs team 

later made a record featuring the line 

No more Latin, no more French, 

No more sitting on a hard board bench. 

Rhyme used by children at the end of school term: see Iona and Peter Opie 

Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959) ch. 13; also found with 

variants such as: No more Latin, no more Greek, No more cares to make me 

squeak 

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. 

Graffito, used as title of book by Simone Signoret 

Not so much a programme, more a way of life! 

Title of BBC television series, 1964 

O Death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling, 

O grave, thy victory? 

The bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling 

For you but not for me. 

For You But Not For Me (song of World War I) in S. Louis Guiraud (ed.) 

Songs That Won the War (1930). Cf. Corinthians 15:55 

Once again we stop the mighty roar of London's traffic and from the great 

crowds we bring you some of the interesting people who have come by land, 

sea and air to be in town tonight. 

In Town Tonight (BBC radio series, 1933-60) introductory words 

Power to the people. 

Slogan of the Black Panther movement, circa 1968 onwards, in Black Panther 

14 Sept. 1968 

Puella Rigensis ridebat 

Quam tigris in tergo vehebat; 

Externa profecta,

Interna revecta, 

Risusque cum tigre manebat. 

There was a young lady of Riga 

Who went for a ride on a tiger; 

They returned from the ride 

With the lady inside, 

And a smile on the face of the tiger. 

In R. L. Green (ed.) A Century of Humorous Verse (1959) p. 285 

The [or A] quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 

Sentence used by typists etc. to ensure that all letters of the alphabet 

are printing properly: see R. Hunter Middleton's introduction to The Quick 

Brown Fox (1945) by Richard H. Templeton Jr. 

The rabbit has a charming face: 

Its private life is a disgrace. 

I really dare not name to you 

The awful things that rabbits do. 

The Rabbit, in The Week-End Book (1925) p. 171 

See the happy moron, 

He doesn't give a damn, 

I wish I were a moron, 

My God! perhaps I am! 

Eugenics Review July 1929 

She was poor but she was honest 

Victim of a rich man's game. 

First he loved her, than he left her, 

And she lost her maiden name. save 

See her on the bridge at midnight, 

Saying "Farewell, blighted love." 

Then a scream, a splash and goodness, 

What is she a-doin' of? 

It's the same the whole world over, 

It's the poor wot gets the blame, 

It's the rich wot gets the gravy. 

Ain't it all a bleedin shame? 

She was Poor but she was Honest (song sung by British soldiers in World 

War I) 

Shome mishtake, shurely? 

Catch-phrase in Private Eye magazine, 1980s 

Snap! Crackle! Pop! 

Slogan for Kellogg's Rice Krispies, from circa 1928 

So farewell then.... 

Frequent opening of poems by "E. J. Thribb" in Private Eye magazine, 1970s 

onwards, usually as an obituary 

Some television programmes are so much chewing gum for the eyes. 

John Mason Brown, quoting a friend of his young son, in interview 28 July 

1955, in James Beasley Simpson Best Quotes of '50, '55, '56 (1957) p. 233 

Sticks nix hick pix. 

Variety 17 July 1935 (headline on lack of interest for farm dramas in 

rural areas)

Stop-look-and-listen. 

Safety slogan current in the US from 1912 

Take me to your leader. 

Catch-phrase from science-fiction stories 

Tell Sid. 

Advertising slogan for the privatization of British Gas, 1986, in Philip 

Kleinman The Saatchi and Saatchi Story (1987) ch. 11 

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is 

an idea whose time has come. 

Nation 15 Apr. 1943. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 267:11 

There is so much good in the worst of us, 

And so much bad in the best of us, 

That it hardly becomes [or saveoves] any of us 

To talk about the rest of us. 

Attributed to many authors, especially Edward Wallis Hoch (1849-1945) 

because printed in the Marion Record (Kansas) which he owned, but 

disclaimed by him 

There was a faith-healer of Deal 

Who said, "Although pain isn't real, 

If I sit on a pin 

And it punctures my skin, 

I dislike what I fancy I feel." 

The Week-End Book (1925) p. 158 

They [Jacob Epstein's sculptures for the former BMA building in the 

Strand] are a form of statuary which no careful father would wish his 

daughter, or no discerning young man his fianc‚e, to see. 

Evening Standard 19 June 1908 

They come as a boon and a blessing to men, 

The Pickwick, the Owl, and the Waverley pen. 

Advertisement by MacNiven and H. Cameron Ltd., circa 1920 

[This film] is so cryptic as to be almost meaningless. If there is a 

meaning, it is doubtless objectionable. 

The British Board of Film Censors, banning Jean Cocteau's film The 

Seashell and the Clergyman (1929), in J. C. Robertson Hidden Cinema (1989) 

ch. 1 

Though I yield to no one in my admiration for Mr Coolidge, I do wish he 

did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle. 

Anonymous remark reported in Alice Roosevelt Longworth Crowded Hours 

(1933) ch. 21 

To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer. 

Farmers' Almanac for 1978 (1977) "Capsules of Wisdom" 

Top people take The Times. 

Advertising slogan for The Times newspaper from Jan. 1959: see I. 

McDonald History of The Times (1984) vol. 5, ch. 16 

Tous les ˆtres humains naissent libres et ‚gaux en dignit‚ et en droits. 

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) Article 1 (modified from a 

draft by Ren‚ Cassin) 

Ulster says no. 

Slogan coined in response to the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 15 Nov. 1985, 

in Irish Times 25 Nov. 1985 

Vorsprung durch Technik. 

Progress through technology. 

Advertising slogan for Audi cars, from 1986 

Vote early. Vote often. 

Chicago (and Irish) election proverb, in David Frost and Michael Shea 

Mid-Atlantic Companion (1986) p. 95 

Wall St. lays an egg. 

Variety 30 Oct. 1929 (headline on the Wall Street Crash) 

War will cease when men refuse to fight. 

Pacifist slogan, from circa 1936 (often "Wars will cease..."): see 

Birmingham Gazette 21 Nov. 1936, p. 3, and Peace News 15 Oct. 1938, p. 12 

We are the Ovaltineys, 

Little [or Happy] girls and boys. 

We are the Ovaltineys (song promoting the drink Ovaltine, from circa 

1935) 

The weekend starts here. 

Catch-phrase of Ready, Steady, Go, British television series, circa 1963 

We're number two. We try harder. 

Advertising slogan for Avis car rentals 

We're here 

Because 

We're here 

Because 

We're here 

Because we're here. 

In John Brophy and Eric Partridge Songs and Slang of the British Soldier 

1914-18 (1930) p. 33 (sung to the tune of Auld Lang Syne ) 

We shall not be moved. 


We shall not pretend that there is nothing in his long career which those 

who respect and admire him would wish otherwise. 

The Times 23 Jan. 1901 (leading article on the accession of Edward VII) 

We shall overcome, 

We shall overcome, 

We shall overcome some day. 

Oh, deep in my heart 

I do believe 

We shall overcome some day. 

We Shall Overcome (song derived from several sources, notably the singers 

Zilphia Horton and Pete Seeger) 

Who dares wins.

Motto on badge of British Special Air Service regiment, from 1942 (see J. 

L. Collins Elite Forces: the SAS (1986) introduction) 

Whose finger do you want on the trigger? 

Daily Mirror 21 Sept. 1951 

Winston is back. 

Board of Admiralty signal to the Fleet on Winston Churchill's 

reappointment as First Sea Lord, 3 Sept. 1939, in Martin Gilbert Winston 

S. Churchill (1976) vol. 5, ch. 53 

Would you like to sin 

With Elinor Glyn 

On a tiger skin? 

Or would you prefer 

To err 

With her 

On some other fur? 

In A. Glyn Elinor Glyn (1955) bk. 2 

1.44 Jean Anouilh 

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1910-1987 

Dieu est avec tout le monde....Et, en fin de compte, il est toujours avec 

ceux qui ont beaucoup d'argent et de grosses arm‚es. 

God is on everyone's side....And, in the last analysis, he is on the side 

with plenty of money and large armies. 

L'Alouette (The Lark, 1953) p. 120 

Il y a l'amour bien s–r. Et puis il y a la vie, son ennemie. 

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. 

ArdŠle(1949) p. 8 

Vous savez bien que l'amour, c'est avant tout le don de soi! 

You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself! 

ArdŠle(1949) p. 79 

C'est trŠs jolie la vie, mais cela n'a pas de forme. L'art a pour objet de 

lui en donner une pr‚cis‚ment et de faire par tous les artifices 

possibles--plus vrai que le vrai. 

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to 

give it some and to do it by every artifice possible--truer than the 

truth. 

La R‚p‚tition (The Rehearsal, 1950) act 2 

1.45 Guillaume Apollinaire 

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1880-1918 

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine. 

Et nos amours, faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne? 

La joie venait toujours aprŠs la peine. 

Vienne la nuit, sonne l'heure,

Les jours s'en vont, je demeure. 

Under Mirabeau Bridge flows the Seine. 

And our loves, must I remember them? 

Joy always comes after pain. 

Let night come, ring out the hour, 

The days go by, I remain. 

Les Soir‚es de Paris Feb. 1912 "Le Pont Mirabeau" 

Les souvenirs sont cors de chasse 

Dont meurt le bruit parmi le vent. 

Memories are hunting horns 

Whose sound dies on the wind. 

Les Soir‚es de Paris Sept. 1912 "Cors de Chasse" 

1.46 Sir Edward Appleton 

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1892-1965 

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a 

language I don't understand. 

In Observer 28 Aug. 1955 

1.47 Louis Aragon 

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1897-1982 

O mois des floraisons mois des m‚tamorphoses 

Mai qui fut sans nuage et Juin poignard‚ 

Je n'oublierai jamais les lilas ni les roses 

Ni ceux que le printemps dans ses plis a gard‚. 

O month of flowerings, month of metamorphoses, 

May without cloud and June that was stabbed, 

I shall never forget the lilac and the roses 

Nor those whom spring has kept in its folds. 

Le CrŠve-C”ur(Heartbreak, 1940) "Les lilas et les roses" 

1.48 Hannah Arendt 

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1906-1975 

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. 

In W. H. Auden A Certain World (1970) p. 369 

It was as though in those last minutes he [Eichmann] was summing up the 

lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us--the 

lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil. 

Eichmann in Jerusalem: a Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) ch. 15 

It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a 

conservative on the day after the revolution. 

New Yorker 12 Sept. 1970, p. 88 

1.49 G. D. Armour 

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1864-1949 

Look here, Steward, if this is coffee, I want tea; but if this is tea, 

then I wish for coffee. 

Punch 23 July 1902 (cartoon caption) 

1.50 Harry Armstrong 

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1879-1951 

There's an old mill by the stream, Nellie Dean, 

Where we used to sit and dream, Nellie Dean. 

And the waters as they flow 

Seem to murmur sweet and low, 

"You're my heart's desire; I love you, Nellie Dean." 

Nellie Dean (1905 song) 

1.51 Louis Armstrong 

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1901-1971 

All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. 

In New York Times 7 July 1971, p. 41 

If you still have to ask...shame on you. 

Habitual reply when asked what jazz is, in Max Jones et al. Salute to 

Satchmo (1970) p. 25 

1.52 Neil Armstrong 

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1930- 

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. 

In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20 

1.53 Sir Robert Armstrong 

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1927- 

It [a letter] contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being 

economical with the truth. 

In Supreme Court, New South Wales, 18 Nov. 1986, in Daily Telegraph 19 

Nov. 1986. Cf. Edmund Burke's Two letters on Proposals for Peace (1796) 

pt. 1, p. 137: Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever: 

But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. 

1.54 Raymond Aron 

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1905- 

La pens‚e politique, en France, est r‚trospective ou utopique. 

Political thought, in France, is retrospective or utopian. 

L'opium des intellectuels (The opium of the intellectuals, 1955) ch. 1

1.55 George Asaf 

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1880-1951 

What's the use of worrying? 

It never was worth while, 

So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, 

And smile, smile, smile. 

Pack up your Troubles (1915 song; music by Felix Powell) 

1.56 Dame Peggy Ashcroft 

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1907- 

It seems silly that more people should see me in "Jewel in the Crown" than 

in all my years in the theatre. 

In Observer 18 Mar. 1984 

1.57 Daisy Ashford 

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1881-1972 

Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay 

with him. 

Young Visiters (1919) ch. 1 

I do hope I shall enjoy myself with you. I am fond of digging in the 

garden and I am parshial to ladies if they are nice I suppose it is my 

nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it but 

can't be helped anyhow. 


You look rather rash my dear your colors dont quite match your face. 


My own room is next the bath room said Bernard it is decerated dark red as 

I have somber tastes. The bath room has got a tip up bason and a hose 

thing for washing your head. 


Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards 

as he was rarther pious but Mr Salteena was not very addicted to prayers 

so he marched up to bed. 


It was a sumpshous spot all done up in gold with plenty of looking 

glasses. 


Oh I see said the Earl but my own idear is that these things are as piffle 

before the wind. 


The bearer of this letter is an old friend of mine not quite the right 

side of the blanket as they say in fact he is the son of a first rate 

butcher but his mother was a decent family called Hyssopps of the Glen so

you see he is not so bad and is desireus of being the correct article. 


Ethel patted her hair and looked very sneery. 


My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. 


Oh Bernard muttered Ethel this is so sudden. No no cried Bernard and 

taking the bull by both horns he kissed her violently on her dainty face. 

My bride to be he murmered several times. 


1.58 Isaac Asimov 

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1920- 

The three fundamental Rules of Robotics....One, a robot may not injure a 

human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to 

harm....Two...a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except 

where such orders would conflict with the First Law...three, a robot must 

protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict 

with the First or Second Laws. 

I, Robot (1950) "Runaround" 

1.59 Elizabeth Asquith (Princess Antoine Bibesco) 

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1897-1945 

Kitchener is a great poster. 

In Margot Asquith More Memories (1933) ch. 6 

1.60 Herbert Henry Asquith (Earl of Oxford and Asquith) 

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1852-1928 

We had better wait and see. 

Hansard 3 Mar. 1910, col. 972 (expression used in various forms when 

answering questions on the Finance Bill) 

Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than 

spectators [of the approaching war]. 

Letters to Venetia Stanley (1982) 24 July 1914 

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. 

In Observer 15 Apr. 1923 

[The War Office kept three sets of figures:] one to mislead the public, 

another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself. 

In Alistair Horne Price of Glory (1962) ch. 2 

We shall never sheath the sword which we have not lightly drawn until 

Belgium recovers in full measure all and more than all that she has 

sacrificed, until France is adequately secured against the menace of 

aggression, until the rights of the smaller nationalities of Europe are 

placed upon an unassailable foundation, and until the military domination

of Prussia is wholly and finally destroyed. 

Speech at the Guildhall, 9 Nov. 1914, in The Times 10 Nov. 1914 

It is fitting that we should have buried the Unknown Prime Minister [Bonar 

Law] by the side of the Unknown Soldier. 

In Robert Blake The Unknown Prime Minister (1955) p. 531 

1.61 Margot Asquith (Countess of Oxford and Asquith) 

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1864-1945 

It [10 Downing Street] is an inconvenient house with three poor 

staircases, and after living there a few weeks I made up my mind that 

owing to the impossibility of circulation I could only entertain my 

Liberal friends at dinner or at garden parties. 

Autobiography (1922) vol. 2, ch. 5 

Ettie [Lady Desborough] is an ox: she will be made into Bovril when she 

dies. 

In Jeanne Mackenzie Children of the Souls (1986) ch. 4 

Jean Harlow kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept trying 

to: she pronounced it Margot. Finally Margot set her right. "No, no, 

Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow." 

T. S. Matthews Great Tom (1973) ch. 7 

The King [George V] told me he would never have died if it had not been 

for that fool Dawson of Penn. 

In letter from Mark Bonham Carter to Kenneth Rose 23 Oct. 1978, quoted in 

Kenneth Rose King George V (1983) ch. 9 

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. 

In Listener 11 June 1953 "Margot Oxford: a Personal Impression" by Lady 

Violet Bonham Carter 

She [Lady Desborough] tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. 



He [Lloyd George?] can't see a belt without hitting below it. 



1.62 Raymond Asquith 

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1878-1916 

The sun like a Bishop's bottom 

Rosy and round and hot 

Looked down upon us who shot 'em 

And down on the devils we shot. 

And the stink of the damned dead niggers 

Went up to the Lord high God 

But we stuck to our starboard triggers 

Though we yawned like dying cod. 

Letter, 4 Mar. 1900, in J. Jolliffe Raymond Asquith Life and Letters 

(1980) p. 64

1.63 Nancy Astor (Viscountess Astor) 

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1879-1964 

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a 

good time. 

In Christian Herald June 1960, p. 31 

I married beneath me, all women do. 

In Dictionary of National Biography 1961-1970 (1981) p. 43 

After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy...shouted, "If I were 

your wife I would put poison in your coffee!" Whereupon Winston 

[Churchill] with equal heat and sincerity answered, "And if I were your 

husband I would drink it." 

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan Glitter and Gold (1952) ch. 7 

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying? 

In J. Grigg Nancy Astor (1980) p. 184 

1.64 Brooks Atkinson 

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1894-1984 

After each war there is a little less democracy to save. 

Once Around the Sun (1951) 7 Jan. 

In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they 

were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed 

intolerable to the people who lived through them. 

Once Around the Sun (1951) 8 Feb. 

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital 

and labour. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of 

cutting each other's throat. 

Once Around the Sun (1951) 7 Sept. 

1.65 E. L. Atkinson and Apsley Cherry-Garrard 

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E. L. Atkinson 1882-1929 

Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1882-1959 

Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman, Captain L. E. G. Oates of the 

Inniskilling Dragoons. In March 1912, returning from the Pole, he walked 

willingly to his death in a blizzard to try and save his comrades, beset 

by hardships. 

Epitaph on cairn erected in the Antarctic, 15 Nov. 1912, in Apsley 

Cherry-Garrard Worst Journey in the World (1922) p. 487 

1.66 Clement Attlee 

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1883-1967 

Few thought he was even a starter 

There were many who thought themselves smarter

But he ended PM 

CH and OM 

An earl and a knight of the garter. 

Letter to Tom Attlee, 8 Apr. 1956, in Kenneth Harris Attlee (1982) p. 545 

(describing himself) 

I should be a sad subject for any publicity expert. I have none of the 

qualities which create publicity. 

In Harold Nicolson Diary (1968) 14 Jan. 1949 

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being 

able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them. 

Hansard 24 Oct. 1950, col. 2705 

The voice we heard was that of Mr Churchill but the mind was that of Lord 

Beaverbrook. 

Speech on radio, 5 June 1945, in Francis Williams Prime Minister Remembers 

(1961) ch. 6 

I remember he [Winston Churchill] complained once in Opposition that a 

matter had been brought up several times in Cabinet and I had to say, "I 

must remind the Right Honourable Gentleman that a monologue is not a 

decision." 

In Francis Williams Prime Minister Remembers (1961) ch. 7 

You have no right whatever to speak on behalf of the Government. Foreign 

Affairs are in the capable hands of Ernest Bevin. I can assure you there 

is widespread resentment in the Party at your activities and a period of 

silence on your part would be welcome. 

Letter to Harold Laski, 20 Aug. 1945, in Francis Williams Prime Minister 

Remembers (1961) ch. 11 

[Russian Communism is] the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine 

the Great. 

Speech at Aarhus University, 11 Apr. 1956, in The Times 12 Apr. 1956 

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you 

can stop people talking. 

Speech at Oxford, 14 June 1957, in The Times 15 June 1957 

1.67 W. H. Auden 

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1907-1973 

Some thirty inches from my nose 

The frontier of my Person goes, 

And all the untilled air between 

Is private pagus or demesne. 

Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes 

I beckon you to fraternize, 

Beware of rudely crossing it: 

I have no gun, but I can spit. 

About the House (1966) "Prologue: the Birth of Architecture" 

Sob, heavy world, 

Sob as you spin 

Mantled in mist, remote from the happy. 

Age of Anxiety (1947) p. 104

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you 

Till China and Africa meet 

And the river jumps over the mountain 

And the salmon sing in the street. 

I'll love you till the ocean 

Is folded and hung up to dry 

And the seven stars go squawking 

Like geese about the sky. 

Another Time (1940) "As I Walked Out One Evening" 

O plunge your hands in water, 

Plunge them in up to the wrist; 

Stare, stare in the basin 

And wonder what you've missed. 

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, 

The desert sighs in the bed, 

And the crack in the tea-cup opens 

A lane to the land of the dead. 

Another Time (1940) "As I Walked Out One Evening" 

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, 

And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; 

He knew human folly like the back of his hand, 

And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; 

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, 

And when he cried the little children died in the streets. 

Another Time (1940) "Epitaph on a Tyrant" 

To us he is no more a person 

Now but a whole climate of opinion. 

Another Time (1940) "In Memory of Sigmund Freud" 

He disappeared in the dead of winter: 

The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted, 

And snow disfigured the public statues; 

The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. 

What instruments we have agree 

The day of his death was a dark cold day. 

Another Time (1940) "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" 

You were silly like us: your gift survived it all; 

The parish of rich women, physical decay, 

Yourself; mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. 

Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, 

For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives 

In the valley of its saying where executives 

Would never want to tamper; it flows south 

From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs, 

Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives, 

A way of happening, a mouth. 


Earth, receive an honoured guest; 

William Yeats is laid to rest: 

Let the Irish vessel lie 

Emptied of its poetry. 

Another Time (1940) "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"

In the nightmare of the dark 

All the dogs of Europe bark, 

And the living nations wait, 

Each sequestered in its hate; 

Intellectual disgrace 

Stares from every human face, 

And the seas of pity lie 

Locked and frozen in each eye. 


In the deserts of the heart 

Let the healing fountain start, 

In the prison of his days 

Teach the free man how to praise. 


About suffering they were never wrong, 

The Old Masters: how well they understood 

Its human position; how it takes place 

While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully 

along. 

Another Time (1940) "Mus‚e des Beaux Arts" 

They never forgot 

That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course 

Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot 

Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse 

Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. 

Another Time (1940) "Mus‚e des Beaux Arts" 

Lay your sleeping head, my love, 

Human on my faithless arm; 

Time and fevers burn away 

Individual beauty from 

Thoughtful children, and the grave 

Proves the child ephemeral: 

But in my arms till break of day 

Let the living creature lie, 

Mortal, guilty, but to me 

The entirely beautiful. 

Another Time (1940) no. 18, p. 43 

I and the public know 

What all schoolchildren learn, 

Those to whom evil is done 

Do evil in return. 

Another Time (1940) "September 1, 1939" 

All I have is a voice 

To undo the folded lie, 

The romantic lie in the brain 

Of the sensual man-in-the-street 

And the lie of Authority 

Whose buildings grope the sky: 

There is no such thing as the State 

And no one exists alone; 

Hunger allows no choice 

To the citizen or the police; 

We must love one another or die.

Another Time (1940) "September 1, 1939" 

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content 

That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; 

When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went. 

Another Time (1940) "The Unknown Citizen" 

Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: 

Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard. 

Another Time (1940) "The Unknown Citizen" 

All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what 

is called damnation. 

A Certain World (1970) "Hell" 

Of course, Behaviourism "works." So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, 

down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, 

and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. 

A Certain World (1970) "Behaviourism" 

A poet's hope: to be, 

like some valley cheese, 

local, but prized elsewhere. 

Collected Poems (1976) p. 639 

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money 

writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it. 

Dyer's Hand (1963) foreword 

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of 

discovering who we are, which involves learning the difference between 

accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary 

limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity. 

Dyer's Hand (1963) "Reading" 

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. 


One cannot review a bad book without showing off. 


No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most 

of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly 

believe their wish has been granted. 

Dyer's Hand (1963) "Writing" 

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good 

deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ. 

Dyer's Hand (1963) "Writing" 

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not 

the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry 

cannot celebrate them, because their deeds are concerned with things, not 

persons, and are, therefore, speechless. When I find myself in the company 

of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into 

a drawing room full of dukes. 

Dyer's Hand (1963) "The Poet and the City" 

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that may 

love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the

minds of others in order that they may love me. 

Dyer's Hand (1963) "Hic et Ille" 

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms 

of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when 

one or both parties run out of goods. 

Dyer's Hand (1963) "Hic et Ille" 

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave 

it behind. 

Dyer's Hand (1963) "D. H. Lawrence" 

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but 

among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. 

Dyer's Hand (1963) "Notes on the Comic" 

At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe's 

We drank our liquor straight, 

Some went upstairs with Margery, 

And some, alas, with Kate. 

For the Time Being (1944) "The Sea and the Mirror"--"Master and 

Boatswain" 

My Dear One is mine as mirrors are lonely. 

For the Time Being (1944) "The Sea and the Mirror"--"Miranda" 

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews 

Not to be born is the best for man 

The second best is a formal order 

The dance's pattern, dance while you can. 

Dance, dance, for the figure is easy 

The tune is catching and will not stop 

Dance till the stars come down with the rafters 

Dance, dance, dance till you drop. 

Letter from Iceland (1937, by Auden and MacNeice) "Letter to William 

Coldstream, Esq." 

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching 

The apple falling towards England, became aware 

Between himself and her of an eternal tie. 

Look, Stranger! (1936) no. 1 

Out on the lawn I lie in bed, 

Vega conspicuous overhead. 


Let the florid music praise, 

The flute and the trumpet, 

Beauty's conquest of your face: 

In that land of flesh and bone, 

Where from citadels on high 

Her imperial standards fly, 

Let the hot sun 

Shine on, shine on. 


Look, stranger, at this island now 

The leaping light for your delight discovers, 

Stand stable here 

And silent be,

That through the channels of the ear 

May wander like a river 

The swaying sound of the sea. 


O what is that sound which so thrills the ear 

Down in the valley drumming, drumming? 

Only the scarlet soldiers, dear, 

The soldiers coming. 


O it's broken the lock and splintered the door, 

O it's the gate where they're turning, turning; 

Their boots are heavy on the floor 

And their eyes are burning. 


A shilling life will give you all the facts. 


August for the people and their favourite islands. 

Daily the steamers sidle up to meet 

The effusive welcome of the pier. 


Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same 

as what they most want to do. 

In Dag Hammarskj”ld Markings (1964) foreword 

I see it often since you've been away: 

The island, the veranda, and the fruit; 

The tiny steamer breaking from the bay; 

The literary mornings with its hoot; 

Our ugly comic servant; and then you, 

Lovely and willing every afternoon. 

New Verse Oct. 1933, p. 15 

At the far end of the enormous room 

An orchestra is playing to the rich. 

New Verse Oct. 1933, p. 15 

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, 

Is a keen observer of life, 

The word "Intellectual" suggests straight away 

A man who's untrue to his wife. 

New Year Letter (1961) note to line 1277 

This is the Night Mail crossing the Border, 

Bringing the cheque and the postal order, 

Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, 

The shop at the corner, the girl next door. 

Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb: 

The gradient's against her, but she's on time. 

Past cotton-grass and moorland border, 

Shovelling white steam over her shoulder. 

Night Mail (1936) in Collected Shorter Poems (1966) 

Letters of thanks, letters from banks, 

Letters of joy from girl and boy, 

Receipted bills and invitations

To inspect new stock or to visit relations, 

And applications for situations, 

And timid lovers' declarations, 

And gossip, gossip from all the nations. 

Night Mail (1936) in Collected Shorter Poems (1966) 

Altogether elsewhere, vast 

Herds of reindeer move across 

Miles and miles of golden moss, 

Silently and very fast. 

Nones (1951) "The Fall of Rome" 

Private faces in public places 

Are wiser and nicer 

Than public faces in private places. 

Orators (1932) dedication 

Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving all 

But will his negative inversion, be prodigal: 

Send to us power and light, a sovereign touch 

Curing the intolerable neutral itch, 

The exhaustion of weaning, the liar's quinsy, 

And the distortions of ingrown virginity. 

Poems (1930) "Sir, No Man's Enemy" 

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at 

New styles of architecture, a change of heart. 

Poems (1930) "Sir, No Man's Enemy" 

Let us honour if we can 

The vertical man 

Though we value none 

But the horizontal one. 

Poems (1930) "To Christopher Isherwood" 

To ask the hard question is simple. 

Poems (1933) no. 27 

This great society is going smash; 

They cannot fool us with how fast they go, 

How much they cost each other and the gods! 

A culture is no better than its woods. 

Shield of Achilles (1955) "Bucolics" 

To save your world you asked this man to die: 

Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? 

Shield of Achilles (1955) "Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier" 

Out of the air a voice without a face 

Proved by statistics that some cause was just 

In tones as dry and level as the place. 

Shield of Achilles (1955) "The Shield of Achilles" 

Tomorrow for the young the poets exploding like bombs, 

The walks by the lake, the weeks of perfect communion; 

Tomorrow the bicycle races 

Through the suburbs on summer evenings. But today the struggle. 

Spain (1937) p. 11 

The stars are dead. The animals will not look:

We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and 

History to the defeated 

May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon. 

Spain (1937) p. 12 

In a garden shady this holy lady 

With reverent cadence and subtle psalm, 

Like a black swan as death came on 

Poured forth her song in perfect calm: 

And by ocean's margin this innocent virgin 

Constructed an organ to enlarge her prayer, 

And notes tremendous from her great engine 

Thundered out on the Roman air. 

Blonde Aphrodite rose up excited, 

Moved to delight by the melody, 

White as an orchid she rode quite naked 

In an oyster shell on top of the sea. 

Three Songs for St Cecilia's Day (1941). Dedicated to Benjamin Britten, 

and set to music by Britten as Hymn to St Cecilia , op. 27 (1942) 

Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions 

To all musicians, appear and inspire: 

Translated Daughter, come down and startle 

Composing mortals with immortal fire. 

Three Songs for St Cecilia's Day (1941) 

No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not 

sing. An opera plot must be, in both senses of the word, a melodrama. 

Times Literary Supplement 2 Nov. 1967, p. 1038 

Your cameraman might enjoy himself because my face looks like a 

wedding-cake left out in the rain. 

In Humphrey Carpenter W. H. Auden (1981) pt. 2, ch. 6 

You [Stephen Spender] are so infinitely capable of being humiliated. Art 

is born of humiliation. 

In Stephen Spender World Within World (1951) ch. 2 

1.68 W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood 

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W. H. Auden 1907-1973 

Christopher Isherwood 1904-1986 

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read 

The Hunter's waking thoughts. 

Dog beneath the Skin (1935) chorus following act 2, sc. 2 

1.69 Tex Avery (Fred Avery) 

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1907-1980 

What's up, Doc? 

Catch-phrase in Bugs Bunny cartoons, from circa 1940 

1.70 Earl of Avon 

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See Sir Anthony Eden (5.4) 

1.71 Revd W. Awdry 

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1911- 

You've a lot to learn about trucks, little Thomas. They are silly things 

and must be kept in their place. After pushing them about here for a few 

weeks you'll know almost as much about them as Edward. Then you'll be a 

Really Useful Engine. 

Thomas the Tank Engine (1946) p. 46 

1.72 Alan Ayckbourn 

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1939- 

My mother used to say, Delia, if S-E-X ever rears its ugly head, close 

your eyes before you see the rest of it. 

Bedroom Farce (1978) act 2 

This place, you tell them you're interested in the arts, you get messages 

of sympathy. 

Chorus of Disapproval (1986) act 2 

Do you realize, Mrs Foster, the hours I've put into that woman? When I 

met her, you know, she was nothing. Nothing at all. With my own hands I 

have built her up. Encouraging her to join the public library and make 

use of her non-fiction tickets. 

How the Other Half Loves (1972) act 2, sc. 1 

I only wanted to make you happy. 

Round and Round the Garden (1975) act 2, sc. 2 

If you gave Ruth a rose, she'd peel all the petals off to make sure there 

weren't any greenfly. And when she'd done that, she'd turn round and say, 

do you call that a rose? Look at it, it's all in bits. 

Table Manners (1975) act 1, sc. 2 

I always feel with Norman that I have him on loan from somewhere. Like one 

of his library books. 

Table Manners (1975) act 2, sc. 1 

1.73 A. J. Ayer 

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1910-1989 

No moral system can rest solely on authority. 

Humanist Outlook (1968) introduction 

It seems that I have spent my entire time trying to make life more 

rational and that it was all wasted effort. 


1.74 Pam Ayres 

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1947- 

I am a bunny rabbit, 

Sitting in me hutch, 

I like to sit up this end, 

I don't care for that end, much, 

I'm glad tomorrow's Thursday, 

'Cause with a bit of luck, 

As far as I remember, 

That's the day they pass the buck. 

Some of Me Poetry (1976) "The Bunny Poem" 

Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth, 

And spotted the perils beneath, 

All the toffees I chewed, 

And the sweet sticky food, 

Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth. 

Some of Me Poetry (1976) "Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth" 

I might have been a farmyard hen, 

Scratchin' in the sun, 

There might have been a crowd of chicks, 

After me to run, 

There might have been a cockerel fine, 

To pay us his respects, 

Instead of sittin' here, 

Till someone comes and wrings our necks. 

I see the Time and Motion clock, 

Is sayin' nearly noon, 

I 'spec me squirt of water, 

Will come flyin' at me soon, 

And then me spray of pellets, 

Will nearly break me leg, 

And I'll bite the wire nettin' 

And lay one more bloody egg. 

Some of Me Poetry (1976) "The Battery Hen" 

Medicinal discovery, 

It moves in mighty leaps, 

It leapt straight past the common cold 

And gave it us for keeps. 

Now I'm not a fussy woman, 

There's no malice in me eye 

But I wish that they could cure 

the common cold. That's all. Goodbye. 

Some of Me Poetry (1976) "Oh no, I got a cold" 

2.0 B 

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2.1 Robert Baden-Powell (Baron Baden-Powell) 

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1857-1941 

The scouts' motto is founded on my initials, it is: be prepared, which

means, you are always to be in a state of readiness in mind and body to do 

your duty. 

Scouting for Boys (1908) pt. 1 

2.2 Joan Baez 

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1941- 

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of 

non-violence has been the organization of violence. 

Daybreak (1970) "What Would You Do If?" 

2.3 Sydney D. Bailey 

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1916- 

It has been said that this Minister [the Lord Privy Seal] is neither a 

Lord, nor a privy, nor a seal. 

British Parliamentary Democracy (ed. 3, 1971) ch. 8 

2.4 Bruce Bairnsfather 

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1888-1959 

Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it. 

Fragments from France (1915) p. 1 

2.5 Hylda Baker 

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1908-1986 

She knows, you know! 

Catch-phrase used in comedy act, about her friend Cynthia 

2.6 James Baldwin 

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1924-1987 

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if 

you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. 

Esquire May 1961 "Black Boy looks at the White Boy" 

The fire next time. 

Title of book (1963). Cf. Anonymous 6:12 

At the root of the American Negro problem is the necessity of the American 

white man to find a way of living with the Negro in order to be able to 

live with himself. 

Harper's Magazine Oct. 1953 "Stranger in a Village" 

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make 

us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time 

we got rid of Him. 

New Yorker 17 Nov. 1962 "Down at the Cross"

If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night. 

New York Review of Books 7 Jan. 1971 "Open Letter to my Sister, Angela 

Davis" 

It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, 6 or 7 to discover that the 

flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has 

not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary 

Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary 

Cooper, that the Indians are you. 

Speech at Cambridge University, 17 Feb. 1965, in New York Times Magazine 7 

March 1965, p. 32 

The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have never been 

very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to 

imitate them. They must, they have no other models. 

Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem" 

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive 

it is to be poor. 

Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem" 

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something 

people take and people are as free as they want to be. 

Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel" 

2.7 Stanley Baldwin (Earl Baldwin of Bewdley) 

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1867-1947 

Do not run up your nose dead against the Pope or the NUM! 

In Lord Butler Art of Memory (1982) p. 110 

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of 

false motive. Never complain and never explain. 

In Harold Nicolson Diary (1967) 21 July 1943 

They [parliament] are a lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done 

very well out of the war. 

In J. M. Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) ch. 5 

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing 

it. 

Hansard 29 May 1924, col. 727 

I think it is well also for the man in the street to realize that there is 

no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed. Whatever people 

may tell him, the bomber will always get through. The only defence is in 

offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more 

quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves. 

Hansard 10 Nov. 1932, col. 632 

Let us never forget this; since the day of the air, the old frontiers are 

gone. When you think of the defence of England you no longer think of the 

chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier 

lies. 

Hansard 30 July 1934, col. 2339 

I shall be but a short time tonight. I have seldom spoken with greater 

regret, for my lips are not yet unsealed. Were these troubles over I would

make case, and I guarantee that not a man would go into the lobby against 

us. 

Hansard 10 Dec. 1935, col. 856 

I put before the whole House my own views with an appalling frankness. 

...Supposing I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming 

and that we must rearm, does anybody think that this pacific democracy 

would have rallied to that cry at that moment? I cannot think of anything 

that would have made the loss of the election from my point of view more 

certain. 


There are three classes which need sanctuary more than others--birds, wild 

flowers, and Prime Ministers. 

In Observer 24 May 1925 

Then comes Winston with his hundred-horse-power mind and what can I do? 

In G. M. Young Stanley Baldwin (1952) ch. 11 

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. 

In G. M. Young Stanley Baldwin (1952) ch. 13 

"Safety first" does not mean a smug self-satisfaction with everything as 

it is. It is a warning to all persons who are going to cross a road in 

dangerous circumstances. 

The Times 21 May 1929 

Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their 

men there would have been no unions. 

Speech in Birmingham, 14 Jan. 1931, in The Times 15 Jan. 1931 

2.8 Arthur James Balfour (Earl of Balfour) 

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1848-1930 

His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine 

of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best 

endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly 

understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and 

religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the 

rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. 

Letter to Lord Rothschild 2 Nov. 1917, in K. Young A. J. Balfour (1963) p. 

478 

Frank Harris...said..."The fact is, Mr Balfour, all the faults of the age 

come from Christianity and journalism." To which Arthur 

replied..."Christianity, of course...but why journalism?" 

Margot Asquith Autobiography (1920) vol. 1, ch. 10 

I never forgive but I always forget. 

In R. Blake Conservative Party (1970) ch. 7 

I thought he [Churchill] was a young man of promise, but it appears he is 

a young man of promises. 

In Winston Churchill My Early Life (1930) ch. 17 

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. 

In Observer 30 Jan. 1927

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so 

few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. 

Letter to Mrs Drew, 19 May 1891, in Some Hawarden Letters (1917) ch. 7 

2.9 Whitney Balliett 

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1926- 

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of 

biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers 

soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's 

prejudices. 

Dinosaurs in the Morning (1962) introductory note 

The sound of surprise. 

Title of book on jazz (1959) 

2.10 Pierre Balmain 

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1914-1982 

The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth 

coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to look as though you are 

wearing mink. 

In Observer 25 Dec. 1955 

2.11 Tallulah Bankhead 

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1903-1968 

I'm as pure as the driven slush. 

Quoted by Maurice Zolotow in Saturday Evening Post 12 Apr. 1947 

There is less in this than meets the eye. 

In Alexander Woollcott Shouts and Murmurs (1922) ch. 4 (describing a 

revival of Maeterlinck's play "Aglavaine and Selysette") 

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it 

for years. 

Tallulah (1952) ch. 4 

2.12 Nancy Banks-Smith 

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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending 

your left leg, it's modern architecture. 

Guardian 20 Feb. 1979 

I'm still suffering from the big d‚nouement in [Jeffrey Archer's book] Not 

A Penny More when "the three stood motionless like sheep in the stare of a 

python." The whole thing keeps me awake at night. Here are these sheep, 

gambolling about in the Welsh jungle, when up pops a python. A python, 

what's more, who thinks he's a cobra. 

Guardian 26 Mar. 1990 

2.13 Imamu Amiri Baraka (Everett LeRoi Jones)

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1934- 

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people 

what to do with their money. 

Kulchur Spring 1962 "Tokenism" 

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for 

freedom. 

Kulchur Spring 1962 "Tokenism" 

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability 

and airconditioning. 

Midstream (1963) p. 39 

2.14 W. N. P. Barbellion (Bruce Frederick Cummings) 

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1889-1919 

Give me the man who will surrender the whole world for a moss or a 

caterpillar, and impracticable visions for a simple human delight. Yes, 

that shall be my practice. I prefer Richard Jefferies to Swedenborg and 

Oscar Wilde to Thomas … Kempis. 

Enjoying Life and Other Literary Remains (1919) "Crying for the Moon" 

Am writing an essay on the life-history of insects and have abandoned the 

idea of writing on "How Cats Spend their Time." 

Journal of a Disappointed Man (1919) 3 Jan. 1903 

I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin 

and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with 

those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy. 

Journal of a Disappointed Man (1919) 23 Oct. 1910 

2.15 Maurice Baring 

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1874-1945 

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does 

what it must and the talent which does what it can. 

Outline of Russian Literature (1914) ch. 3 

2.16 Ronnie Barker 

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1929- 

The marvellous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can 

only mean one thing. 

Sauce (1977) "Daddie's Sauce" 

2.17 Frederick R. Barnard 

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One picture is worth ten thousand words. 

Printers' Ink 10 Mar. 1927

2.18 Clive Barnes 

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1927- 

This [Oh, Calcutta!] is the kind of show to give pornography a dirty name. 

New York Times 18 June 1969, p. 33 

2.19 Julian Barnes 

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1946- 

What does this journey seem like to those who aren't British--as they head 

towards the land of embarrassment and breakfast? 

Flaubert's Parrot (1984) ch. 7 

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only 

then can he see clearly. 


Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle 

uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassiŠre. At least, not in the 

English sense. But do not forget that brassiŠre is the French for 

life-jacket. 


Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where 

things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not 

surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only 

problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, 

never your own. 


2.20 Peter Barnes 

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1931- 

Claire: How do you know you're...God? 

Earl of gurney: Simple. When I pray to Him I find I'm talking to 

myself. 

The Ruling Class (1969) act 1, sc. 4 

2.21 Sir J. M. Barrie 

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1860-1937 

I'm not young enough to know everything. 

The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1 

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be 

equality in the servants' hall. 

The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1 

It's my deserts; I'm a second eleven sort of chap. 

The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 3

Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his 

publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said 

goodbye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some 

publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say 

goodbye. He said instead, "I'll see you later." 

Speech at Aldine Club, New York, 5 Nov. 1896, in Critic 14 Nov. 1896 

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and 

writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it 

is with what he vowed to make it. 

The Little Minister (1891) vol. 1, ch. 1 

It's grand, and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable. 

The Little Minister (1891) vol. 1, ch. 10 

I loathe entering upon explanations to anybody about anything. 

My Lady Nicotine (1890) ch. 14 

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a 

thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the 

beginning of fairies. 

Peter Pan (1928) act 1 

Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little 

fairy somewhere that falls down dead. 


To die will be an awfully big adventure. 

Peter Pan (1928) act 3. Cf. Charles Frohman 

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe! If you believe, 

clap your hands! 


That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to 

the corpse. 

Quality Street (performed 1901, pubd. 1913) act 1 

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse 

of modern times, one sometimes forgets which. 

Sentimental Tommy (1896) ch. 5 

Someone said that God gave us memory so that we might have roses in 

December. 

Rectorial Address at St Andrew's, 3 May 1922, in The Times 4 May 1922 

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. 

Rectorial Address at St Andrew's, 3 May 1922, in The Times 4 May 1922 

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes! 

Rectorial Address at St Andrews, 3 May 1922, in The Times 4 May 1922 

For several days after my first book was published I carried it about in 

my pocket, and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure that the ink 

had not faded. 

Speech at the Critics' Circle in London, 26 May 1922, in The Times 27 May 

1922 

Have you ever noticed, Harry, that many jewels make women either 

incredibly fat or incredibly thin?

The Twelve-Pound Look and Other Plays (1921) p. 27 

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. 

The Twelve-Pound Look and Other Plays (1921) p. 28 

Oh the gladness of her gladness when she's glad, 

And the sadness of her sadness when she's sad, 

But the gladness of her gladness 

And the sadness of her sadness 

Are as nothing, Charles, 

To the badness of her badness when she's bad. 

Rosalind in The Twelve-Pound Look and Other Plays (1921) p. 113 

Charm...it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need 

to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter 

what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have 

charm for one. But some have charm for none. 

What Every Woman Knows (1918) act 1 

A young Scotsman of your ability let loose upon the world with œ300, what 

could he not do? It's almost appalling to think of; especially if he went 

among the English. 


My lady, there are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman 

on the make. 


You've forgotten the grandest moral attribute of a Scotsman, Maggie, that 

he'll do nothing which might damage his career. 


The tragedy of a man who has found himself out. 


Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; 

and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every 

woman knows that. 


2.22 Ethel Barrymore 

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1879-1959 

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the 

brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, 

the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. 

In George Jean Nathan The Theatre in the Fifties (1953) p. 30 

2.23 John Barrymore 

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1882-1942 

He [Barrymore] would quote from Genesis the text which says, "It is not 

good for man to be alone," and then add, "But O my God, what a relief." 

Alma Power-Waters John Barrymore (1941) ch. 13 

My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and

watch me. 

In Eddie Cantor The Way I See It (1959) ch. 2 

Die? I should say not, old fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a 

conventional thing to happen to him. 

In Lionel Barrymore We Barrymores (1951) ch. 26 

2.24 Lionel Bart 

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1930- 

See Frank Norman (14.23) 

2.25 Karl Barth 

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1886-1968 

Die Menschen aber waren nie gut, sind es nicht und werden es auch nie 

sein. 

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. 

Christliche Gemeinde (Christian Community, 1948) p. 36 

Whether the angels play only Bach in praising God I am not quite sure; I 

am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. 


2.26 Roland Barthes 

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1915-1980 

Ce que le public r‚clame, c'est l'image de la passion, non la passion 

elle-mˆme. 

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. 

Esprit (1952) vol. 20, pt. 10, p. 412 "Le monde o— l'on catche" (The 

world of wrestling) 

Je crois que l'automobile est aujourd'hui l'‚quivalent assez exact des 

grandes cath‚drales gothiques: je veux dire une grande cr‚ation d'‚poque, 

con‡ue passionn‚ment par des artistes inconnus, consomm‚e dans son image, 

sinon dans son usage, par un peuple entier qui s'approprie en elle un 

objet parfaitement magique. 

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great 

Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with 

passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a 

whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. 

Mythologies (1957) "La nouvelle Citro‰n" (The new Citro‰n) 

2.27 Bernard Baruch 

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1870-1965 

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am. 

In Newsweek 29 Aug. 1955

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. 

In Meyer Berger New York (1960) 

Let us not be deceived--we are today in the midst of a cold war. 

Speech to South Carolina Legislature 16 Apr. 1947, in New York Times 17 

Apr. 1947, p. 21 

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see 

if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a 

political leader. 

In New York Times 21 June 1965, p. 16 

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, 

but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get 

better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in forms of 

government. 

In The Times 20 Aug. 1964 

2.28 Jacques Barzun 

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1907- 

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them 

how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. 

The House of Intellect (1959) ch. 6 

Art distils sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable 

form--or else it is not art. 

The House of Intellect (1959) ch. 6 

2.29 L. Frank Baum 

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1856-1919 

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick. 

Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) ch. 2 

2.30 Vicki Baum 

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1888-1960 

Verheiratet sein verlangt immer und berall die feinsten Kunst der 

Unaufrichtigkeit zwischen Mensch und Mensch. 

Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between 

two human beings. 

Zwischenfall in Lohwinckel (1930) p. 140, translated by Margaret 

Goldsmith as Results of an Accident (1931) p. 140 

2.31 Sir Arnold Bax 

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1883-1953 

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should 

make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and

folk-dancing." 

Farewell, My Youth (1943) p. 17 

2.32 Sir Beverley Baxter 

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1891-1964 

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the Government that he is like the town 

tart who has finally married the Mayor! 

In Sir Henry Channon Chips: the Diaries (1967) 12 June 1940 

2.33 Beachcomber 

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See J. B. Morton (13.129) 

2.34 David, First Earl Beatty 

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1871-1936 

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today [at the 

Battle of Jutland]. 

In S. Roskill Beatty (1980) ch. 8 

The German flag will be hauled down at sunset to-day (Thursday) and will 

not be hoisted again without permission. 

Signal to the Fleet, 21 Nov. 1918, in The Times 22 Nov. 1918 

2.35 Lord Beaverbrook (William Maxwell Aitken, first Baron Beaverbrook) 

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1879-1964 

I ran the paper [Daily Express] purely for propaganda, and with no other 

purpose. 

Evidence to Royal Commission on the Press, 18 Mar. 1948, in A. J. P. 

Taylor Beaverbrook (1972) ch. 23 

This is my final word. It is time for me to become an apprentice once 

more. I have not settled in which direction. But somewhere, sometime soon. 

Speech at Dorchester Hotel, 25 May 1964, in A. J. P. Taylor Beaverbrook 

(1972) ch. 25 

The Flying Scotsman is no less splendid a sight when it travels north to 

Edinburgh than when it travels south to London. Mr Baldwin denouncing 

sanctions was as dignified as Mr Baldwin imposing them. At times it seemed 

that there were two Mr Baldwins on the stage, a prudent Mr Baldwin, who 

scented the danger in foolish projects, and a reckless Mr Baldwin, who 

plunged into them head down, eyes shut. But there was, in fact, only one 

Mr Baldwin, a well-meaning man of indifferent judgement, who, whether he 

did right or wrong, was always sustained by a belief that he was acting 

for the best. 

Daily Express 29 May 1937 

The Daily Express declares that Great Britain will not be involved in a 

European war this year or next year either. 

Daily Express 19 Sept. 1938

He [Lloyd George] did not seem to care which way he travelled providing he 

was in the driver's seat. 

Decline and Fall of Lloyd George (1963) ch. 7 

Now who is responsible for this work of development on which so much 

depends? To whom must the praise be given? To the boys in the back rooms. 

They do not sit in the limelight. But they are the men who do the work. 

Listener 27 Mar. 1941. Cf. Frank Loesser 

With the publication of his [Earl Haig's] Private Papers in 1952, he 

committed suicide 25 years after his death. 

Men and Power (1956) p. xviii 

Churchill on top of the wave has in him the stuff of which tyrants are 

made. 

Politicians and the War (1932) vol. 2, ch. 6 

2.36 Carl Becker 

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1873-1945 

The significance of man is that he is that part of the universe that asks 

the question, What is the significance of Man? He alone can stand apart 

imaginatively and, regarding himself and the universe in their eternal 

aspects, pronounce a judgment: The significance of man is that he is 

insignificant and is aware of it. 

Progress and Power (1936) ch. 3 

2.37 Samuel Beckett 

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1906-1989 

It is suicide to be abroad. But what is it to be at home, Mr Tyler, what 

is it to be at home? A lingering dissolution. 

All That Fall (1957) p. 10 

We could have saved sixpence. We have saved fivepence. (Pause) But at what 

cost? 

All That Fall (1957) p. 25 

Clov: Do you believe in the life to come? 

Hamm: Mine was always that. 

Endgame (1958) p. 35 

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there 

willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I 

must. 

First Love (1973) p. 8 

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window. 

Malone Dies (1958) p. 44 

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, 

you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. 

The Unnamable (1959) p. 418 

Nothing to be done.

Waiting for Godot (1955) act 1 

One of the thieves was saved. (Pause) It's a reasonable percentage. 


Estragon: Charming spot. Inspiring prospects. Let's go. 

Vladimir: We can't. 

Estragon: Why not? 

Vladimir: We're waiting for Godot. 


Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful! 


He can't think without his hat. 


Vladimir: That passed the time. 

Estragon: It would have passed in any case. 

Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly. 


We always find something, eh, Didi, to give us the impression that we 

exist? 


We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can 

boast as much? 


We all are born mad. Some remain so. 


They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's 

night once more. 


The air is full of our cries. (He listens.) But habit is a great deadener. 


2.38 Harry Bedford and Terry Sullivan 

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I'm a bit of a ruin that Cromwell knock'd about a bit. 

It's a Bit of a Ruin that Cromwell Knocked about a Bit (1920 song; written 

for Marie Lloyd) 

2.39 Sir Thomas Beecham 

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1879-1961 

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. 

In H. Proctor-Gregg Beecham Remembered (1976) pt. 2, p. 154 

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish 

together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. 

In Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978) p. 27

[The harpsichord] sounds like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin 

roof. 

In Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978) p. 34 

In the first movement alone, of the Seventh Symphony [by Bruckner], I took 

note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages. 


[Herbert von Karajan is] a kind of musical Malcolm Sargent. 


I am not the greatest conductor in this country. On the other hand I'm 

better than any damned foreigner. 

In Daily Express 9 Mar. 1961 

Musicians did not like the piece [Strauss's Elektra] at all. One eminent 

British composer on leaving the theatre was asked what he thought of it. 

"Words fail me," he replied, "and I'm going home at once to play the chord 

of C major twenty times over to satisfy myself that it still exists." 

Mingled Chime (1944) ch. 18 

The plain fact is that music per se means nothing; it is sheer sound, and 

the interpreter can do no more with it than his own capacities, mental and 

spiritual, will allow, and the same applies to the listener. 

Mingled Chime (1944) ch. 33 

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it 

makes. 

In New York Herald Tribune 9 Mar. 1961 

Good music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the 

memory with difficulty. 

Speech, circa 1950, in New York Times 9 Mar. 1961 

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for 

unhealthy women. 


Hark! the herald angels sing! 

Beecham's Pills are just the thing, 

Two for a woman, one for a child... 

Peace on earth and mercy mild! 

In Neville Cardus Sir Thomas Beecham (1961) p. 23 

At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like. At the concert I 

make them play as I like. 


Dear old Elgar --he is furious with me for drastically cutting his A flat 

symphony --it's a very long work, the musical equivalent of the Towers of 

St Pancras Station--neo-Gothic, you know. 


I am entirely with you in your obvious reluctance to rehearse on a morning 

as chilly and dismal as this--but please do try to keep in touch with us 

from time to time. 


Why do we have to have all these third-rate foreign conductors 

around--when we have so many second-rate ones of our own?

In L. Ayre Wit of Music (1966) p. 70 

2.40 Sir Max Beerbohm 

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or 

defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. 

And Even Now (1920) "No. 2, The Pines" 

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts 

and guests. 

And Even Now (1920) "Hosts and Guests" 

I maintain that though you would often in the fifteenth century have heard 

the snobbish Roman say, in a would-be off-hand tone, "I am dining with the 

Borgias tonight," no Roman ever was able to say, "I dined last night with 

the Borgias." 

And Even Now (1920) "Hosts and Guests" 

They so very indubitably are, you know! 

Christmas Garland (1912) "Mote in the Middle Distance" 

Of course he [William Morris] was a wonderful all-round man, but the act 

of walking round him has always tired me. 

Letter to S. N. Behrman circa1953, in Conversations with Max (1960) ch. 2 

A swear-word in a rustic slum 

A simple swear-word is to some, 

To Masefield something more. 

Fifty Caricatures (1912) no. 12 

Not that I had any special reason for hating school! Strange as it may 

seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, 

good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. 

More (1899) "Going Back to School" 

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they 

are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at 

school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge. 

More (1899) "Going Back to School" 

I have the satiric temperament: when I am laughing at anyone I am 

generally rather amusing, but when I am praising anyone, I am always 

deadly dull. 

Saturday Review 28 May 1898 

The only tribute a French translator can pay Shakespeare is not to 

translate him--even to please Sarah [Bernhardt]. 

Saturday Review 17 June 1899 

"I'm afraid I found [the British Museum] rather a depressing place. It--it 

seemed to sap one's vitality." "It does. That's why I go there. The lower 

one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art." 

Seven Men (1919) "Enoch Soames" 

Enter Michael Angelo. Andrea del Sarto appears for a moment at a window. 

Pippa passes. 

Seven Men (1919) "Savonarola Brown" act 3

Most women are not so young as they are painted. 

Yellow Book (1894) vol. 1, p. 67 

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by 

themselves, so to speak." 


Fate wrote her [Queen Caroline of Brunswick] a most tremendous tragedy, 

and she played it in tights. 


There is always something rather absurd about the past. 


To give an accurate and exhaustive account of the period would need a far 

less brilliant pen than mine. 


None, it is said, of all who revelled with the Regent, was half so wicked 

as Lord George Hell. 

Yellow Book (1896) vol. 11, p. 11 "Happy Hypocrite" ch. 1 

The fading signals and grey eternal walls of that antique station, which, 

familiar to them and insignificant, does yet whisper to the tourist the 

last enchantments of the Middle Age. 

Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 1 

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking 

for a man's footprint. 


The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion 

that they will come to bad end. 


Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry. 


You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who 

has failed to inspire sympathy in men. 


Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied. 


You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn 

from life itself. 


He held, too, in his enlightened way, that Americans have a perfect right 

to exist. But he did often find himself wishing Mr Rhodes had not enabled 

them to exercise that right in Oxford. 


She was one of the people who say "I don't know anything about music 

really, but I know what I like." 

Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 9. Cf. Henry James 112:3 

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by

standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. 


Deeply regret inform your grace last night two black owls came and perched 

on battlements remained there through night hooting at dawn flew away none 

knows whither awaiting instructions Jellings. 


Prepare vault for funeral Monday Dorset. 


The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play. Please answer my 

question, to the best of your ability. 


Byron!--he would be all forgotten today if he had lived to be a florid old 

gentleman with iron-grey whiskers, writing very long, very able letters to 

The Times about the Repeal of the Corn Laws. 


2.41 Brendan Behan 

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1923-1964 

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years. 

Hostage (1958) act 1 

Pat: He was an Anglo-Irishman. 

Meg: In the blessed name of God what's that? 

Pat: A Protestant with a horse. 


Meanwhile I'll sing that famous old song, "The Hound that Caught the Pubic 

Hare." 


When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and 

sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my 

absence. 


Soldier: What's a mixed infant? 

Teresa: A little boy or girl under five years old. They were called 

mixed infants because until that time the boys and girls were mixed 

together. 

Soldier: I wish I'd been a mixed infant. 


I am a sociable worker. Have you your testament? 


Go on, abuse me--your own husband that took you off the streets on a 

Sunday morning, when there wasn't a pub open in the city. 


We're here because we're queer 

Because we're queer because we're here. 

Hostage (1958) act 3

There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. 

In Dominic Behan My Brother Brendan (1965) p. 158 

2.42 John Hay Beith 

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See Ian Hay (8.33) 

2.43 Clive Bell 

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1881-1964 

One account...given me by a very good artist, is that what he tries to 

express in a picture is "a passionate apprehension of form." 

Art (1914) pt. 1, ch. 3 

It would follow that "significant form" was form behind which we catch a 

sense of ultimate reality. 

Art (1914) pt. 1, ch. 3 

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from 

circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is 

a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. 

Art (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1 

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I 

conceive, is the function of the critic. 

Art (1914) pt. 3 ch. 3 

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a 

recogniton of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we 

believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily 

good; and that all questions are open. 

Civilization (1928) ch. 5 

2.44 Henry Bellamann 

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"Randy--where--where's the rest of me?" His voice rose to a sharp wail. 

King's Row (1940) pt. 5, ch. 1 (also used in the 1941 film of the book, 

where the line was spoken by Ronald Reagan) 

2.45 Hilaire Belloc 

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1870-1953 

Child! do not throw this book about; 

Refrain from the unholy pleasure 

Of cutting all the pictures out! 

Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. 

Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) dedication 

I call you bad, my little child, 

Upon the title page, 

Because a manner rude and wild 

Is common at your age.

Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) introduction 

Who take their manners from the Ape, 

Their habits from the Bear, 

Indulge in loud unseemly jape, 

And never brush their hair. 

Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) introduction 

Mothers of large families (who claim to common sense) 

Will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and expense. 

Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) "The Tiger" 

I shoot the Hippopotamus 

With bullets made of platinum, 

Because if I use leaden ones 

His hide is sure to flatten 'em. 

Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) "The Hippopotamus" 

When people call this beast to mind, 

They marvel more and more 

At such a little tail behind, 

So large a trunk before. 

Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) "The Elephant" 

And always keep a-hold of Nurse 

For fear of finding something worse. 

Cautionary Tales (1907) "Jim" 

The Chief Defect of Henry King 

Was chewing little bits of String. 

Cautionary Tales (1907) "Henry King" 

Physicians of the Utmost Fame 

Were called at once; but when they came 

They answered, as they took their Fees, 

"There is no Cure for this Disease." 


"Oh, my Friends, be warned by me, 

That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, and Tea 

Are all the Human Frame requires..." 

With that, the Wretched Child expires. 


Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, 

It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes; 

Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, 

Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth, 

Attempted to Believe Matilda: 

The effort very nearly killed her. 

Cautionary Tales (1907) "Matilda" 

It happened that a few Weeks later 

Her Aunt was off to the Theatre 

To see that Interesting Play 

The Second Mrs Tanqueray. 


For every time She shouted "Fire!" 

They only answered "Little Liar!"

And therefore when her Aunt returned, 

Matilda, and the House, were Burned. 


In my opinion, Butlers ought 

To know their place, and not to play 

The Old Retainer night and day. 

Cautionary Tales (1907) "Lord Lundy" 

Sir! you have disappointed us! 

We had intended you to be 

The next Prime Minister but three: 

The stocks were sold; the Press was squared; 

The Middle Class was quite prepared. 

But as it is!...My language fails! 

Go out and govern New South Wales! 

Cautionary Tales (1907) "Lord Lundy" 

A Trick that everyone abhors 

In Little Girls is slamming Doors. 

Cautionary Tales (1907) "Rebecca" 

She was not really bad at heart, 

But only rather rude and wild: 

She was an aggravating child. 

Cautionary Tales (1907) "Rebecca" 

The nicest child I ever knew 

Was Charles Augustus Fortescue. 

He never lost his cap, or tore 

His stockings or his pinafore : 

In eating Bread he made no Crumbs, 

He was extremely fond of sums. 

Cautionary Tales (1907) "Charles Augustus Fortescue" 

The pleasure politicians take in their limelight pleases me with a sort of 

pleasure I get when I see a child's eyes gleam over a new toy. 

Conversation with a Cat (1931) ch. 17 

Gentlemen, I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. 

This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads 

every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God 

that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative. 

Speech to voters of South Salford, 1906, in R. Speaight Life of Hilaire 

Belloc (1957) ch. 10 

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me 

understand anti-clerical things so well. 

Letter to E. S. P. Haynes, 9 Nov. 1909, in R. Speaight Life of Hilaire 

Belloc (1957) ch. 17 

Whatever happens we have got 

The Maxim Gun, and they have not. 

Modern Traveller (1898) pt. 6 

I had an Aunt in Yucatan 

Who bought a Python from a man 

And kept it for a pet. 

She died, because she never knew 

These simple little rules and few;--

The Snake is living yet. 

More Beasts for Worse Children (1897) "The Python" 

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, 

With an indolent expression and an undulating throat 

Like an unsuccessful literary man. 

More Beasts for Worse Children (1897) "The Llama" 

The Microbe is so very small 

You cannot make him out at all. 

More Beasts for Worse Children (1897) "The Microbe" 

Oh! let us never, never doubt 

What nobody is sure about! 

More Beasts for Worse Children (1897) "The Microbe" 

Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light 

Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right! 

It is the business of the wealthy man 

To give employment to the artisan. 

More Peers (1911) "Lord Finchley" 

Lord Hippo suffered fearful loss 

By putting money on a horse 

Which he believed, if it were pressed, 

Would run far faster than the rest. 

More Peers (1911) "Lord Hippo" 

Like many of the Upper Class 

He liked the Sound of Broken Glass. 

New Cautionary Tales (1930) "About John." Cf. Evelyn Waugh 222:19 

Birds in their little nests agree 

With Chinamen, but not with me. 

New Cautionary Tales (1930) "On Food" 

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing 

them. 

On Everything (1909) "On Song" 

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would 

have let the vulgar stuff alone. 

On Nothing (1908) "On Tea" 

Strong brother in God and last companion, Wine. 

Short Talks with the Dead (1926) "Heroic Poem upon Wine" 

Sally is gone that was so kindly 

Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill. 

Sonnets and Verse (1923) "Ha'nacker Mill" 

Do you remember an Inn, 

Miranda? 

Do you remember an Inn? 

And the tedding and the spreading 

Of the straw for a bedding, 

And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees 

And the wine that tasted of the tar? 

Sonnets and Verse (1923) "Tarantella"

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 

"His sins were scarlet, but his books were read." 

Sonnets and Verse (1923) "On His Books" 

The Devil, having nothing else to do, 

Went off to tempt My Lady Poltagrue. 

My Lady, tempted by a private whim, 

To his extreme annoyance, tempted him. 

Sonnets and Verse (1923) "On Lady Poltagrue" 

Of this bad world the loveliest and the best 

Has smiled and said "Good Night," and gone to rest. 

Sonnets and Verse (1923) "On a Dead Hostess" 

The accursed power which stands on Privilege 

(And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) 

Broke--and Democracy resumed her reign: 

(Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne). 

Sonnets and Verse (1923) "On a Great Election" 

Lady, when your lovely head 

Droops to sink among the Dead, 

And the quiet places keep 

You that so divinely sleep; 

Then the dead shall blessŠd be 

With a new solemnity, 

For such Beauty, so descending, 

Pledges them that Death is ending, 

Sleep your fill--but when you wake 

Dawn shall over Lethe break. 

Sonnets and Verse (1923) "On a Sleeping Friend" 

I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. 

But Money gives me pleasure all the time. 

Sonnets and Verse (1923) "Fatigued" 

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, 

But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right. 

Sonnets and Verse (ed. 2, 1938) "The Pacifist" 

I am a sundial, and I make a botch 

Of what is done much better by a watch. 

Sonnets and Verse (ed. 2, 1938) "On a Sundial" 

From the towns all Inns have been driven: from the villages most....Change 

your hearts or you will lose your Inns and you will deserve to have lost 

them. But when you have lost your Inns drown your empty selves, for you 

will have lost the last of England. 

This and That (1912) "On Inns" 

When I am living in the Midlands 

That are sodden and unkind, 

I light my lamp in the evening: 

My work is left behind; 

And the great hills of the South Country 

Come back into my mind. 

Verses (1910) "The South Country" 

If I ever become a rich man, 

Or if ever I grow to be old,

I will build a house with deep thatch 

To shelter me from the cold, 

And there shall the Sussex songs be sung 

And the story of Sussex told. 

I will hold my house in the high wood 

Within a walk of the sea, 

And the men that were boys when I was a boy 

Shall sit and drink with me. 

Verses (1910) "The South Country" 

Of Courtesy, it is much less 

Than Courage of Heart or Holiness, 

Yet in my Walks it seems to me 

That the Grace of God is in Courtesy. 

Verses (1910) "Courtesy" 

Balliol made me, Balliol fed me, 

Whatever I had she gave me again: 

And the best of Balliol loved and led me. 

God be with you, Balliol men. 

Verses (1910) "To the Balliol Men Still in Africa" 

From quiet homes and first beginning, 

Out to the undiscovered ends, 

There's nothing worth the wear of winning, 

But laughter and the love of friends. 

Verses (1910) "Dedicatory Ode" 

Remote and ineffectual Don 

That dared attack my Chesterton. 

Verses (1910) "Lines to a Don" 

Don different from those regal Dons! 

With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze, 

Who shout and bang and roar and bawl 

The Absolute across the hall, 

Or sail in amply billowing gown 

Enormous through the Sacred Town, 

Bearing from College to their homes 

Deep cargoes of gigantic tomes; 

Dons admirable! Dons of Might! 

Uprising on my inward sight 

Compact of ancient tales, and port 

And sleep--and learning of a sort. 

Verses (1910) "Lines to a Don" 

A smell of burning fills the startled Air-- 

The Electrician is no longer there! 

Verses (1910) "Newdigate Poem" 

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: 

"Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied. 

Verses (1910) "The False Heart" 

The Moon on the one hand, the Dawn on the other; 

The Moon is my sister, the Dawn is my brother. 

The Moon on my Left and the Dawn on my right. 

My Brother, good morning: my Sister good night. 

Verses and Sonnets (1896) "The Early Morning"

2.46 Saul Bellow 

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1915- 

If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. 

Herzog (1961) p. 1 (opening sentence) 

The idea, anyway, was to ward off trouble. But now the moronic inferno had 

caught up with me. My elegant car...was mutilated. 

Humboldt's Gift (1975) p. 35 

The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and 

cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall 

asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn. 

Humboldt's Gift (1975) p. 283 

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in 

the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the 

eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of 

attention in the midst of distraction. 

In George Plimpton Writers at Work (1967) 3rd series, p. 190 

2.47 Robert Benchley 

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1889-1945 

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an 

accent now. 

After 1903--What? (1938) p. 241 

On a summer vacation trip Benchley arrived in Venice and immediately wired 

a friend: "streets flooded. please advise." 

In R. E. Drennan Algonquin Wits (1968) p. 45 

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. 

In R. E. Drennan Algonquin Wits (1968) p. 55 

My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents and, so far, nobody 

has asked me for my solution, is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there 

is always the chance that you will fall out. 

Chips off the old Benchley (1949) "Safety Second" 

I had just dozed off into a stupor when I heard what I thought was myself 

talking to myself. I didn't pay much attention to it, as I knew 

practically everything I would have to say to myself, and wasn't 

particularly interested. 

Chips off the old Benchley (1949) "First Pigeon of Spring" 

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so 

much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. 

Chips off the old Benchley (1949) "How to get things Done" 

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing 

a typewriter ribbon. 

Chips off the old Benchley (1949) "Learn to Write" 

Bob Benchley was one of the few writers I knew who always laughed at other

writers' lines. I always laughed at one of his. When he returned for his 

twenty-fifth homecoming at Harvard [in 1937], he stated to underclassmen, 

"I feel as I always have, except for an occasional heart attack." 

Groucho Marx Grouchophile (1976) p. 204 

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. 

My Ten Years in a Quandary (1936) p. 204 

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. 

My Ten Years in a Quandary (1936) p. 295 

He [Benchley] came out of a night club one evening and, tapping a 

uniformed figure on the shoulder, said, "Get me a cab." The uniformed 

figure turned around furiously and informed him that he was not a doorman 

but a rear admiral. "O.K.," said Benchley, "Get me a battleship." 

New Yorker 5 Jan. 1946 

The famous office that Benchley and Dorothy Parker shared in the 

Metropolitan Opera House...was a cramped triangle stolen from a hallway. 

"One square foot less and it would be adulterous," said Benchley. 

New Yorker 5 Jan. 1946 

In America there are two classes of travel--first class, and with 

children. 

Pluck and Luck (1925) p. 6 

Often Daddy sat up very late working on a case of Scotch. 

Pluck and Luck (1925) p. 198 

A friend told him that the particular drink he was drinking was slow 

poison, and he replied, "So who's in a hurry?" 

Nathaniel Benchley Robert Benchley (1955) ch. 1 

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but 

I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. 

In Nathaniel Benchley Robert Benchley (1955) ch. 1 

See also Mae West (23.29) 

2.48 Julien Benda 

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1867-1956 

La trahison des clercs. 

The treachery of the intellectuals. 


2.49 Stephen Vincent Ben‚t 

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1898-1943 

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. 

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. 

Atlantic Monthly Sept. 1935 "Litany for Dictatorships" 

I have fallen in love with American names, 

The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat,

The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, 

The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, 

Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat. 

Yale Review (1927) vol. 17, p. 63 "American Names" 

I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. 

I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. 

You may bury my body in Sussex grass, 

You may bury my tongue at Champm‚dy. 

I shall not be there, I shall rise and pass. 

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. 

Yale Review (1927) vol. 17, p. 64 "American Names" 

2.50 William Rose Ben‚t 

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1886-1950 

Blake saw a treefull of angels at Peckham Rye, 

And his hands could lay hold on the tiger's terrible heart. 

Blake knew how deep is Hell, and Heaven how high, 

And could build the universe from one tiny part. 

Burglar of Zodiac (1918) "Mad Blake" 

2.51 Tony Benn 

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1925- 

A holy war with atom bombs could end the human family for ever. I say this 

as a socialist whose political commitment owes much more to the teachings 

of Jesus--without the mysteries within which they are presented--than to 

the writings of Marx whose analysis seems to lack an understanding of the 

deeper needs of humanity. 

Arguments for Democracy (1981) ch. 7 

The distortion of the Marxist idea that developed in Russia was as great, 

and of the same character, as the distortion of the Christian teaching at 

the time of the Inquisition. But it is as wholly wrong to blame Marx for 

what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in 

his. 

In Alan Freeman The Benn Heresy (1982) p. 172 

In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the 

benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least 

once. 

Hansard 13 Mar. 1974, col. 197 

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters. 

In Anthony Sampson The New Anatomy of Britain (1971) ch. 24 

It is arguable that what has really happened has amounted to such a 

breakdown in the social contract, upon which parliamentary democracy by 

universal suffrage was based, that that contract now needs to be 

re-negotiated on a basis that shares power much more widely, before it can 

win general assent again. 

The New Politics (1970) ch. 4 

The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired 

politicians.

In Observer 4 Feb. 1962 

We thought we could put the economy right in five years. We were wrong. 

It will probably take ten. 

Speech at Bristol, 18 Apr. 1968, in The Times 19 Apr. 1968 

2.52 George Bennard 

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1873-1958 

I will cling to the old rugged cross, 

And exchange it some day for a crown. 

The Old Rugged Cross (1913 hymn) 

2.53 Alan Bennett 

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1934- 

Life, you know, is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We are all of 

us looking for the key. And, I wonder, how many of you here tonight have 

wasted years of your lives looking behind the kitchen dressers of this 

life for that key. I know I have. Others think they've found the key, 

don't they? They roll back the lid of the sardine tin of life, they reveal 

the sardines, the riches of life, therein, and they get them out, they 

enjoy them. But, you know, there's always a little bit in the corner you 

can't get out. I wonder--I wonder, is there a little bit in the corner of 

your life? I know there is in mine. 

Beyond the Fringe (1961 revue) "Take a Pew," in Roger Wilmut Complete 

Beyond the Fringe (1987) p. 104 

I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts 

already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic 

establishment. 

Forty Years On (1969) act 1 

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people 

wouldn't obey the rules. 

Getting On (1972) act 1 

One of the few lessons I have learned in life is that there is invariably 

something odd about women who wear ankle socks. 

Old Country (1978) act 1 

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That 

unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. 

Old Country (1978) act 2 

2.54 Arnold Bennett 

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1867-1931 

I place it upon record frankly--the Clayhanger trilogy is good....The 

scene, for instance, where Darius Clayhanger dies that lingering death 

could scarcely be bettered....And why?...Because I took infinite pains 

over it. All the time my father was dying, I was at the bedside making 

copious notes. You can't just slap these things down. You have to take 

trouble.

Overheard conversation with Hugh Walpole circa 1926, in P. G. Wodehouse 

and Guy Bolton Bring on the Girls (1954) ch. 15 

His opinion of himself, having once risen, remained at "set fair." 

The Card (1911) ch. 1 

"Ye can call it influenza if ye like," said Mrs Machin. "There was no 

influenza in my young days. We called a cold a cold." 


"And yet," demanded Councillor Barlow, "what's he done? Has he ever done 

a day's work in his life? What great cause is he identified with?" "He's 

identified," said the first speaker, "with the great cause of cheering us 

all up." 


My general impression is that Englishmen act better than Frenchmen, and 

Frenchwomen better than Englishwomen. 

Cupid and Commonsense (1909) preface 

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no 

taste, and men without individuality have no taste--at any rate no taste 

that they can impose on their publics. 

Evening Standard 21 Aug. 1930 

"Bah!" she said. "With people like you, love only means one thing." "No," 

he replied. "It means twenty things, but it doesn't mean nineteen." 

Journal (1932) 20 Nov. 1904 

A test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a 

first-rate work, is that you finish it. 

Things that have Interested Me (1921) "Finishing Books" 

In the meantime alcohol produces a delightful social atmosphere that 

nothing else can produce. 

Things that have Interested Me (1921) "For and Against Prohibition" 

Seventy minutes had passed before Mr Lloyd George arrived at his proper 

theme. He spoke for a hundred and seventeen minutes, in which period he 

was detected only once in the use of an argument. 

Things that have Interested Me (1921) "After the March Offensive." 

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. 

Indeed, I think it must be more agreeable, must have a more real savour, 

than optimism--from the way in which pessimists abandon themselves to it. 

Things that have Interested Me (1921) "Slump in Pessimism" 

The price of justice is eternal publicity. 

Things that have Interested Me (2nd series, 1923) "Secret Trials" 

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or 

high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. 

The Title (1918) act 1 

Examine the Honours List and you can instantly tell how the Government 

feels in its inside. When the Honours List is full of rascals, 

millionaires, and--er--chumps, you may be quite sure that the Government 

is dangerously ill. 

The Title (1918) act 1

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. 

They cannot give their entire attention to it. 


Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if 

they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. 


Literature's always a good card to play for Honours. It makes people 

think that Cabinet ministers are educated. 


2.55 Ada Benson and Fred Fisher 

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1875-1942 

Your feet's too big, 

Don't want you 'cause your feet's too big, 

Mad at you 'cause your feet's too big, 

Hates you 'cause your feet's too big. 

Your Feet's Too Big (1936 song) 

2.56 A. C. Benson 

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1862-1925 

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority. 

Excerpts from Letters to M. E. A. (1926) p. 41 

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, 

How shall we extol thee who are born of thee? 

Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; 

God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet. 

Land of Hope and Glory (1902 song; music by Sir Edward Elgar) 

2.57 Stella Benson 

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1892-1933 

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. 

This is the End (1917) p. 63 

2.58 Edmund Clerihew Bentley 

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1875-1956 

When their lordships asked Bacon 

How many bribes he had taken 

He had at least the grace 

To get very red in the face. 

Baseless Biography (1939) "Bacon" 

The Art of Biography 

Is different from Geography. 

Geography is about Maps, 

But Biography is about Chaps.

Biography for Beginners (1905) introd. 

Sir Christopher Wren 

Said, "I am going to dine with some men. 

If anybody calls 

Say I am designing St Paul's." 

Biography for Beginners (1905) "Sir Christopher Wren" 

Sir Humphrey Davy 

Abominated gravy. 

He lived in the odium 

Of having discovered Sodium. 

Biography for Beginners (1905) "Sir Humphrey Davy" 

John Stuart Mill, 

By a mighty effort of will, 

Overcame his natural bonhomie 

And wrote "Principles of Political Economy." 

Biography for Beginners (1905) "John Stuart Mill" 

What I like about Clive 

Is that he is no longer alive. 

There is a great deal to be said 

For being dead. 

Biography for Beginners (1905) "Clive" 

Edward the Confessor 

Slept under the dresser. 

When that began to pall, 

He slept in the hall. 

Biography for Beginners (1905) "Edward the Confessor" 

Chapman & Hall 

Swore not at all. 

Mr Chapman's yea was yea, 

And Mr Hall's nay was nay. 

Biography for Beginners (1905) "Chapman & Hall" 

George the Third 

Ought never to have occurred. 

One can only wonder 

At so grotesque a blunder. 

More Biography (1929) "George the Third" 

2.59 Eric Bentley 

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1916- 

The theatre of farce is the theatre of the human body but of that body in 

a state as far from the natural as the voice of Chaliapin is from my voice 

or yours. It is a theatre in which, though the marionettes are men, the 

men are supermarionettes. It is the theatre of the surrealist body. 

Life of Drama (1964) ch. 7 

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon; 

instead of principles, slogans; and, instead of genuine ideas, Bright 

Ideas. 

New Republic 29 Dec. 1952

2.60 Nikolai Berdyaev 

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1874-1948 

Utopias are realizable, they are more realizable than what has been 

presented as "realist politics" and what has simply been the calculated 

rationalism of armchair politicians. Life is moving towards utopias. But 

perhaps a new age is opening up before us, in which the intelligentsia and 

the cultured classes will dream of ways to avoid utopias and to return to 

a non-utopian society, to a less "perfect" a freer society. 

Novoe srednevekov'e (New Middle Ages, 1924) p. 122 

2.61 Lord Charles Beresford 

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1846-1919 

On one occasion, when at the eleventh hour he [Beresford] had been 

summoned to dine with the then Prince of Wales, he is said to have 

telegraphed back: "Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post." This story 

has been told of several other people, but Lord Charles was the real 

originator. 

Ralph Nevill World of Fashion 1837-1922 (1923) ch. 5. Cf. Marcel Proust 

176:5 

2.62 Henri Bergson 

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1859-1941 

La fonction essentielle de l'univers, qui est une machine … faire des 

dieux. 

The essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making 

gods. 

Les Deux sources de la morale et de la religion (The Two Sources of 

Morality and Religion, 1932) ch. 4 

2.63 Irving Berlin (Israel Baline) 

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1888-1989 

Come on and hear, 


Alexander's ragtime band, 



It's the best band in the land. 

Alexander's Ragtime Band (1911 song) 

Anything you can do, I can do better, 

I can do anything better than you. 

Anything You Can Do (1946 song) 

God bless America, 

Land that I love, 

Stand beside her and guide her 

Thru the night with a light from above.

From the mountains to the prairies, 

To the oceans white with foam, 

God bless America, 

My home sweet home. 

God Bless America (1939 song) 

Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning, 

Oh! how I'd love to remain in bed; 

For the hardest blow of all, 

Is to hear the bugler call, 

You've got to get up, you've got to get up, 

You've got to get up this morning! 

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (1918 song) 

A pretty girl is like a melody 

That haunts you night and day. 

A Pretty Girl is like a Melody (1919 song) 

The song is ended (but the melody lingers on). 


There's no business like show business. 


I'm puttin' on my top hat, 

Tyin' up my white tie, 

Brushin' off my tails. 

Top Hat, White Tie and Tails (1935 song) 

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, 

Just like the ones I used to know, 

Where the tree-tops glisten 

And children listen 

To hear sleigh bells in the snow. 

White Christmas (1942 song) 

2.64 Sir Isaiah Berlin 

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1909- 

There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate 

everything to a single central vision...and, on the other side, those who 

pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory....The first kind 

of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the 

second to the foxes. 

Hedgehog and Fox (1953) ch. 1 

Rousseau was the first militant lowbrow. 

Observer 9 Nov. 1952 

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness 

or a quiet conscience. 

Two Concepts of Liberty (1958) p. 10 

2.65 Georges Bernanos 

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1888-1948

Le d‚sir de la priŠre est d‚j… une priŠre. 

The wish for prayer is a prayer in itself. 

Journal d'un cur‚ de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest, 1936) ch. 2 

L'enfer, madame, c'est de ne plus aimer. 

Hell, madam, is to love no more. 

Journal d'un cur‚ de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest, 1936) ch. 2 

2.66 Jeffrey Bernard 

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When people say, "You're breaking my heart," they do in fact usually mean 

that you're breaking their genitals. 

Spectator 31 May 1986 

2.67 Eric Berne 

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1910-1970 

The sombre picture presented in Parts I and II of this book, in which 

human life is mainly a process of filling in time until the arrival of 

death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of 

business one is going to transact during the long wait, is a commonplace 

but not the final answer. 

Games People Play (1964) ch. 18 

Games people play: the psychology of human relationships. 


2.68 Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward 

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Carl Bernstein 1944- 

Bob Woodward 1943- 

All the President's men. 


2.69 Chuck Berry 

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1931- 

Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news. 

Roll Over, Beethoven (1956 song) 

2.70 John Berryman 

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1914-1972 

Blossomed Sarah, and I 

blossom. Is that thing alive? I hear a famisht howl. 

Partisan Review (1953) vol. 20, p. 494 "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet"

We must travel in the direction of our fear. 

Poems (1942) "A Point of Age" 

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. 

77 Dream Songs (1964) no. 14 

And moreover my mother taught me as a boy 

(repeatingly) "Ever to confess you're bored 

means you have no 

Inner Resources." I conclude now I have no 

inner resources, because I am heavy bored. 


I seldom go to films. They are too exciting, said the Honourable Possum. 


2.71 Pierre Berton 

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1920- 

[Definition of a Canadian:] Somebody who knows how to make love in a 

canoe. 

Toronto Star, Canadian Mag. 22 Dec. 1973 

2.72 Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg 

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1856-1921 

He [Bethmann Hollweg] said that the step taken by His Majesty's Government 

was terrible to a degree, just for a word "neutrality"--a word which in 

wartime had so often been disregarded--just for a scrap of paper, Great 

Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing 

better than to be friends with her. 

Report by Sir E. Goschen to Sir Edward Grey, in British Documents on 

Origins of the War 1898-1914 (1926) vol. 11, p. 351 

2.73 Sir John Betjeman 

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1906-1984 

He sipped at a weak hock and seltzer 

As he gazed at the London skies 

Through the Nottingham lace of the curtains 

Or was it his bees-winged eyes? 

He rose, and he put down The Yellow Book. 

He staggered--and, terrible-eyed, 

He brushed past the palms on the staircase 

And was helped to a hansom outside. 

Continual Dew (1937) "Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel" 

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! 

It isn't fit for humans now, 

There isn't grass to graze a cow. 

Swarm over, Death! 

Continual Dew (1937) "Slough"

Rime Intrinsica, Fontmell Magna, Sturminster Newton and Melbury Bubb, 

Whist upon whist upon whist upon whist drive, in Institute, Legion and 

Social Club. 

Horny hands that hold the aces which this morning held the plough-- 

While Tranter Reuben, T. S. Eliot, H. G. Wells and Edith Sitwell lie in 

Mellstock churchyard now. 

Continual Dew (1937) "Dorset" 

Spirits of well-shot woodcock, partridge, snipe 

Flutter and bear him up the Norfolk sky: 

In that red house in a red mahogany book-case 

The stamp collection waits with mounts long dry. 

Continual Dew (1937) "Death of King George V" 

And girls in slacks remember Dad, 

And oafish louts remember Mum, 

And sleepless children's hearts are glad, 

And Christmas -morning bells say "Come!" 

Even to shining ones who dwell 

Safe in the Dorchester Hotel. 

And is it true? And is it true, 

This most tremendous tale of all, 

Seen in a stained-glass window's hue, 

A Baby in an ox's stall? 

The Maker of the stars and sea 

Become a Child on earth for me? 

Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954) "Christmas" 

In the licorice fields at Pontefract 

My love and I did meet 

And many a burdened licorice bush 

Was blooming round our feet; 

Red hair she had and golden skin, 

Her sulky lips were shaped for sin, 

Her sturdy legs were flannel-slack'd, 

The strongest legs in Pontefract. 

Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954) "The Licorice Fields at Pontefract" 

In the Garden City Caf‚ with its murals on the wall 

Before a talk on "Sex and Civics" I meditated on the Fall. 

Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954) "Huxley Hall" 

Gaily into Ruislip Gardens 

Runs the red electric train, 

With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's 

Daintily alights Elaine; 

Hurries down the concrete station 

With a frown of concentration, 

Out into the outskirt's edges 

Where a few surviving hedges 

Keep alive our lost Elysium--rural Middlesex again. 

Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954) "Middlesex" 

There was sun enough for lazing upon beaches, 

There was fun enough for far into the night. 

But I'm dying now and done for, 

What on earth was all the fun for? 

For God's sake keep that sunlight out of sight. 

Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954) "Sun and Fun"

It's awf'lly bad luck on Diana, 

Her ponies have swallowed their bits; 

She fished down their throats with a spanner 

And frightened them all into fits. 

Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954) "Hunter Trials" 

Oh wasn't it naughty of Smudges? 

Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. 

She threw me in front of the Judges 

And my silly old collarbone's bust. 

Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954) "Hunter Trials" 

Phone for the fish-knives, Norman 

As Cook is a little unnerved; 

You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes 

And I must have things daintily served. 

Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954) "How to get on in Society" 

Milk and then just as it comes dear? 

I'm afraid the preserve's full of stones; 

Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys 

With afternoon tea-cakes and scones. 

Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954) "How to get on in Society" 

Ghastly good taste, or a depressing story of the rise and fall of English 

architecture. 


Oh! Chintzy, Chintzy cheeriness, 

Half dead and half alive! 

Mount Zion (1931) "Death in Leamington" 

The Church's Restoration 

In eighteen-eighty-three 

Has left for contemplation 

Not what there used to be. 

Mount Zion (1931) "Hymn" 

Sing on, with hymns uproarious, 

Ye humble and aloof, 

Look up! and oh how glorious 

He has restored the roof! 

Mount Zion (1931) "Hymn" 

Broad of Church and "broad of Mind," 

Broad before and broad behind, 

A keen ecclesiologist, 

A rather dirty Wykehamist. 

Mount Zion (1931) "The Wykehamist" 

Oh shall I see the Thames again? 

The prow-promoted gems again, 

As beefy ATS 

Without their hats 

Come shooting through the bridge? 

And "cheerioh" or "cheeri-bye" 

Across the waste of waters die 

And low the mists of evening lie 

And lightly skims the midge.

New Bats in Old Belfries (1945) "Henley-on-Thames" 

Rumbling under blackened girders, Midland, bound for Cricklewood, 

Puffed its sulphur to the sunset where that Land of Laundries stood. 

Rumble under, thunder over, train and tram alternate go. 

Shake the floor and smudge the ledger, Charrington, Sells, Dale and Co., 

Nuts and nuggets in the window, trucks along the lines below. 

New Bats in Old Belfries (1945) "Parliament Hill Fields" 

Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn, 

Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun, 

What strenuous singles we played after tea, 

We in the tournament--you against me. 

Love-thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, 

The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy, 

With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, 

I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn. 

Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, 

How mad I am, sad I am, glad that you won. 

The warm-handled racket is back in its press, 

But my shock-headed victor, she loves me no less. 

New Bats in Old Belfries (1945) "Subaltern's Love-Song" 

The scent of the conifers, sound of the bath, 

The view from my bedroom of moss-dappled path, 

As I struggle with double-end evening tie, 

For we dance at the Golf Club, my victor and I. 


By roads "not adopted," by woodlanded ways, 

She drove to the club in the late summer haze, 

Into nine-o'clock Camberley, heavy with bells 

And mushroomy, pine-woody, evergreen smells. 

Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, 

I can hear from the car-park the dance has begun. 

Oh! full Surrey twilight! importunate band! 

Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand! 


We sat in the car park till twenty to one 

And now I'm engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn. 


Belbroughton Road is bonny, and pinkly bursts the spray 

Of prunus and forsythia across the public way, 

For a full spring-tide of blossom seethed and departed hence, 

Leaving land-locked pools of jonquils by sunny garden fence. 

And a constant sound of flushing runneth from windows where 

The toothbrush too is airing in this new North Oxford air. 

New Bats in Old Belfries (1945) "May-Day Song for North Oxford" 

Bells are booming down the bohreens, 

White the mist along the grass. 

Now the Julias, Maeves and Maureens 

Move between the fields to Mass. 

New Bats in Old Belfries (1945) "Ireland with Emily"

The gas was on in the Institute, 

The flare was up in the gymn, 

A man was running a mineral line, 

A lass was singing a hymn, 

When Captain Webb the Dawley man, 

Captain Webb from Dawley, 

Came swimming along in the old canal 

That carries the bricks to Lewley. 

Old Lights for New Chancels (1940) "A Shropshire Lad" 

Pam, I adore you, Pam, you great big mountainous sports girl, 

Whizzing them over the net, full of the strength of five: 

That old Malvernian brother, you zephyr and khaki shorts girl, 

Although he's playing for Woking, 

Can't stand up to your wonderful backhand drive. 

Old Lights for New Chancels (1940) "Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden" 

Think of what our Nation stands for, 

Books from Boots' and country lanes, 

Free speech, free passes, class distinction, 

Democracy and proper drains. 

Lord, put beneath Thy special care 

One-eighty-nine Cadogan Square. 

Old Lights for New Chancels (1940) "In Westminster Abbey" 

The dread of beatings! Dread of being late! 

And, greatest dread of all, the dread of games! 

Summoned by Bells (1960) ch. 7 

Balkan Sobranies in a wooden box, 

The college arms upon the lid; Tokay 

And sherry in the cupboard; on the shelves 

The University Statutes bound in blue, 

Crome Yellow, Prancing Nigger, Blunden, Keats. 


As one more solemn of our number said: 

"Spiritually I was at Eton, John." 


2.74 Aneurin Bevan 

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1897-1960 

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence. 

In Vincent Brome Aneurin Bevan (1953) ch. 11 

Listening to a speech by Chamberlain is like paying a visit to 

Woolworth's: everything in its place and nothing above sixpence. 

In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1962) vol. 1, ch. 8 

I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated 

calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by 

indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not 

allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper 

education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and 

objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would 

about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.


Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of 

silver. 


This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an 

organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same 

time. 

Speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945, in Daily Herald 25 May 1945 

I do not think Winston Churchill wants war, but the trouble with him is 

that he doesn't even know how to avoid it. He does not talk the language 

of the 20th century but that of the 18th. He is still fighting Blenheim 

all over again. His only answer to a difficult situation is send a 

gun-boat. 

Speech at Scarborough 2 Oct. 1951, in Daily Herald 3 Oct. 1951 

If you carry this resolution you will send Britain's Foreign Secretary 

naked into the conference chamber. 

Speech at Brighton, in Daily Herald 4 Oct. 1957 

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the 

Right Honourable Gentleman [Neville Chamberlain] for four and a half 

years. 


Why read the crystal when he can read the book? 

Hansard 29 Sept. 1949, col. 319 

I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign 

Secretary. Quite honestly, I am beginning to feel extremely sorry for 

him. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the 

monkey when the organ grinder is present. 


We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They 

get run down. 


The language of priorities is the religion of Socialism. 

Speech at Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, 8 June 1949, in Report of 

48th Annual Conference (1949) p. 172 

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can 

eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that 

inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they 

are lower than vermin. They condemned millions of first-class people to 

semi-starvation. 

Speech at Manchester, 4 July 1948, in The Times 5 July 1948 

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. 

The Times 29 Mar. 1960 

2.75 William Henry Beveridge (First Baron Beveridge) 

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1879-1963 

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their

dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. 

Full Employment in a Free Society (1944) pt. 7 

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or 

of races, but the happiness of the common man. 

Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) pt. 7 

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master 

of very little else. 

Voluntary Action (1948) ch. 12 

2.76 Ernest Bevin 

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1881-1951 

If you open that Pandora's Box [the Council of Europe], you never know 

what Trojan 'orses will jump out. 

Sir Roderick Barclay Ernest Bevin and Foreign Office (1975) ch. 3 

A Ministerial colleague with whom Ernie [Bevin] was almost always on bad 

terms was Nye Bevan. There was a well-known occasion when the latter had 

incurred Ernie's displeasure, and one of those present, seeking to excuse 

Nye, observed that he was sometimes his own worst enemy. "Not while I'm 

alive 'e aint!" retorted Ernie. 

In Sir Roderick Barclay Ernest Bevin and Foreign Office (1975) ch. 4 

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly 

before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented....The common man, 

I think, is the great protection against war. 


The most conservative man in this world is the British Trade Unionist when 

you want to change him. 

Speech, 8 Sept. 1927, in Report of Proceedings of the Trades Union 

Congress (1927) p. 298 

I didn't ought never to have done it. It was you, Willie, what put me up 

to it. 

To Lord Strang, after officially recognizing Communist China, in C. 

Parrott Serpent and Nightingale (1977) ch. 3 

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria Station and go 

anywhere I damn well please. 

In Spectator 20 Apr. 1951, p. 514 

2.77 Georges Bidault 

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1899-1983 

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. 

In Observer 15 July 1962 

2.78 Ambrose Bierce 

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1842-?1914 

Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but

not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its 

object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. 

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 12 

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to 

ourselves. 


Advice, n. The smallest current coin. 


Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have 

their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot 

separately plunder a third. 


Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while 

living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. 


Applause, n. The echo of a platitude. 


Auctioneer, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a 

pocket with his tongue. 


Battle, n. A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would 

not yield to the tongue. 


Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. 


Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. 


Calamity, n....Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and 

good fortune to others. 


Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as 

distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. 


Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as 

they ought to be. 


Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the 

foolish their lack of understanding. 


Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. 


Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends 

are true, and our happiness is assured. 

Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 129

History, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which 

are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. 


Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a 

master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. 

Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 213 

Noise, n. A stench in the ear....The chief product and authenticating sign 

of civilization. 


Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. 


Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two 

periods of fighting. 


Prejudice, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support. 


Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. 


Destiny, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool 's excuse for 

failure. 

Enlarged Devil's Dictionary (1967) p. 64 

2.79 Laurence Binyon 

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1869-1943 

Now is the time for the burning of the leaves. 

Horizon Oct. 1942, "The Ruins" 

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, 

England mourns for her dead across the sea. 

Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, 

Fallen in the cause of the free. 

The Times 21 Sept. 1914, "For the Fallen" 

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. 

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. 

At the going down of the sun and in the morning 

We will remember them. 

The Times 21 Sept. 1914, "For the Fallen" 

2.80 Nigel Birch (Baron Rhyl) 

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1906-1981 

My God! They've shot our fox! [said 13 Nov. 1947, when hearing of the 

resignation of Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour 

Government]. 

In Harold Macmillan Tides of Fortune (1969) ch. 3 

2.81 John Bird

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That was the week that was. 

Title of BBC television series, 1962-3: see Ned Sherrin A Small 

Thing--Like an Earthquake (1983) p. 62 

2.82 Earl of Birkenhead 

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See F. E. Smith (19.82) 

2.83 Lord Birkett (William Norman Birkett, Baron Birkett) 

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1883-1962 

I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But 

I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are 

still going. 

In Observer 30 Oct. 1960 

2.84 Eric Blair 

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See George Orwell ("George Orwell (Eric Blair)" in topic 15.24 

form=pageonly.) 

2.85 Eubie Blake (James Hubert Blake) 

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1883-1983 

If I'd known I was gonna live this long [100 years], I'd have taken better 

care of myself. 


2.86 Lesley Blanch 

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1907- 

She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed 

towards the wilder shores of love. 

The Wilder Shores of Love (1954) pt. 2, ch. 1 

2.87 Alan Bleasdale 

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1946- 

Yosser hughes: Gizza job.... I can do that. 

Boys from the Blackstuff (1985) p. 7 (often quoted as "Gissa job") 

2.88 Karen Blixen 

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See Isak Dinesen (4.31) 

2.89 Edmund Blunden 

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1896-1974 

Dance on this ball-floor thin and wan, 

Use him as though you love him; 

Court him, elude him, reel and pass, 

And let him hate you through the glass. 

Masks of Time (1925) "Midnight Skaters" 

I have been young, and now am not too old; 

And I have seen the righteous forsaken, 

His health, his honour and his quality taken. 

This is not what we were formerly told. 

Near and Far (1929) "Report on Experience" 

This was my country and it may be yet, 

But something flew between me and the sun. 

Retreat (1928) "The Resignation" 

I am for the woods against the world, 

But are the woods for me? 

To Themis (1931) "The Kiss" 

2.90 Alfred Blunt (Bishop of Bradford) 

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1879-1957 

The benefit of the King's Coronation depends, under God, upon two 

elements: First, on the faith, prayer, and self-dedication of the King 

himself, and on that it would be improper for me to say anything except to 

commend him, and ask you to commend him, to God's grace, which he will so 

abundantly need...if he is to do his duty faithfully. We hope that he is 

aware of his need. Some of us wish that he gave more positive signs of his 

awareness. 

Speech to Bradford Diocesan Conference, 1 Dec. 1936, in The Times 2 Dec. 

1936 

2.91 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 

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1840-1922 

To the Grafton Gallery to look at...the Post-Impressionist pictures sent 

over from Paris....The drawing is on the level of that of an untaught 

child of seven or eight years old, the sense of colour that of a tea-tray 

painter, the method that of a schoolboy who wipes his fingers on a slate 

after spitting on them....These are not works of art at all, unless 

throwing a handful of mud against a wall may be called one. They are the 

works of idleness and impotent stupidity, a pornographic show. 

My Diaries (1920) 15 Nov. 1910 

I like the hunting of the hare 

Better than that of the fox. 

New Pilgrimage (1889) "The Old Squire"

2.92 Ronald Blythe 

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1922- 

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the 

bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and with no explanation if he can help 

it. 

Age of Illusion (1963) ch. 12 

An industrial worker would sooner have a œ5 note but a countryman must 

have praise. 

Akenfield (1969) ch. 5 

2.93 Enid Blyton 

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1897-1968 

Five go off in a caravan. 

Title of children's story (1946) 

The naughtiest girl in the school. 

Title of children's story (1940) 

2.94 Louise Bogan 

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1897-1970 

Women have no wilderness in them, 

They are provident instead, 

Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts 

To eat dusty bread. 

Body of this Death (1923) "Women" 

2.95 Humphrey Bogart 

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1899-1957 

Contrary to legend, as a juvenile I never said "Tennis, anyone?" just as 

I never said "Drop the gun, Louie" as a heavy. 

In Ezra Goodman Bogey: the Good-Bad Guy (1965) ch. 4. Cf. George Bernard 

Shaw 199:4 See also Julius J. Epstein et al (5.22) 

2.96 John B. Bogart 

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1848-1921 

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But 

if a man bites a dog, that is news. 

In F. M. O'Brien Story of the Sun (1918) ch. 10 (the quotation is often 

attributed to Charles A. Dana) 

2.97 Niels Bohr 

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1885-1962

One of the favourite maxims of my father was the distinction between the 

two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the 

opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where 

opposites are obviously absurd. 

In S. Rozental Niels Bohr (1967) p. 328 

2.98 Alan Bold 

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1943- 

They mattered more than they should have. It is so 

In Scotland, land of the omnipotent No. 

Perpetual Motion Machine (1969) "A Memory of Death" 

2.99 Robert Bolt 

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1924- 

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture 

learned from books. 

A Man for All Seasons (1960) act 2 

2.100 Andrew Bonar Law 

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1858-1923 

If, therefore, war should ever come between these two countries [Great 

Britain and Germany], which Heaven forbid! it will not, I think, be due to 

irresistible natural laws; it will be due to the want of human wisdom. 


If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds. 

In Lord Beaverbrook Politicians and the War (1932) vol. 2, ch. 4 

2.101 Carrie Jacobs Bond 

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1862-1946 

When you come to the end of a perfect day, 

And you sit alone with your thought, 

While the chimes ring out with a carol gay 

For the joy that the day has brought, 

Do you think what the end of a perfect day 

Can mean to a tired heart, 

When the sun goes down with a flaming ray, 

And the dear friends have to part? 

Well, this is the end of a perfect day, 

Near the end of a journey, too; 

But it leaves a thought that is big and strong, 

With a wish that is kind and true. 

For mem'ry has painted this perfect day 

With colours that never fade, 

And we find, at the end of a perfect day, 

The soul of a friend we've made.

A Perfect Day (1910 song) 

2.102 Sir David Bone 

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1874-1959 

It's "Damn you, Jack--I'm all right!" with you chaps. 

Brassbounder (1910) ch. 3 

2.103 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 

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1906-1945 

Es ist der Vorzug und das Wesen der Starken, dass sie die grossen 

Entscheidungsfragen stellen und zu ihnen klar Stellung nehmen k”nnen. Die 

Schwachen mssen sich immer zwischen Alternativen entscheiden, die nicht 

die ihren sind. 

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring 

out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak 

always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. 

Widerstand und Ergebung (Resistance and Submission, 1951) "Ein paat 

Gedanken ber Verschiedenes" 

Jesus nur "fr andere da ist."...Gott in Menschengestalt!...nicht die 

griechische Gott-Menschgestalt des "Menschen an sich," sondern "der Mensch 

fr andere," darum der Gekreuzigte. 

Jesus is there only for others....God in human form! not...in the Greek 

divine-human form of "man in himself," but "the man for others," and 

therefore the crucified. 

Widerstand und Ergebung (Resistance and Submission, 1951) "Entwurf einer 

Arbeit" 

2.104 Sonny Bono (Salvatore Bono) 

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1953- 

The beat goes on. 


2.105 Daniel J. Boorstin 

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1914- 

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. 

The Image (1961) ch. 2 

A bestseller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was 

selling well. 

The Image (1961) ch. 4 

2.106 James H. Boren 

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1925-

Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in 

trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble. 

In New York Times 8 Nov. 1970, p. 45 

2.107 Jorge Luis Borges 

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1899-1986 

El original es infiel a la traducci¢n. 

The original is unfaithful to the translation [Henley's translation of 

Beckford's Vathek]. 

Sobre el "Vathek"de William Beckford (1943) in Obras Completas (1974) 

p. 730 

Para uno de esos gn¢sticos, el visible universo era una ilusi¢n ¢ (mas 

precisamente) un sofisma. Los espejos y la paternidad son abominables 

porque lo multiplican y lo divulgan. 

For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or, more 

precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they 

multiply it and extend it. 

Tl”n, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius (1941) in Obras Completas (1974) p. 431 

The Falklands thing [the Falklands War of 1982] was a fight between two 

bald men over a comb. 

In Time 14 Feb. 1983 

2.108 Max Born 

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1882-1970 

The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in 

a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war, by a brief fit of 

destruction, or by careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow 

process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure. 

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (1957) vol. 13, p. 186 

2.109 John Collins Bossidy 

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1860-1928 

And this is good old Boston, 

The home of the bean and the cod, 

Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots 

And the Cabots talk only to God. 

Verse spoken at Holy Cross College alumni dinner in Boston, Mass., 1910, 

in Springfield Sunday Republican 14 Dec. 1924 

2.110 Gordon Bottomley 

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1874-1948 

When you destroy a blade of grass 

You poison England at her roots:

Remember no man's foot can pass 

Where evermore no green life shoots. 

Chambers of Imagery (1912) "To Ironfounders and Others" 

Your worship is your furnaces, 

Which, like old idols, lost obscenes, 

Have molten bowels; your vision is 

Machines for making more machines. 

Chambers of Imagery (1912) "To Ironfounders and Others" 

2.111 Horatio Bottomley 

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1860-1933 

During his incarceration at the Scrubbs [1922-3], Bottomley was largely 

employed in the making of mail-bags. It was while he was so engaged one 

afternoon that a prison visitor...saw him busily stitching away. "Ah, 

Bottomley," he remarked brightly, "sewing? " "No," grunted the old man 

without looking up, "reaping." 

In S.T. Felstead Horatio Bottomley (1936) ch. 16 

Gentlemen: I have not had your advantages. What poor education I have 

received has been gained in the University of Life. 

Speech at Oxford Union, 2 Dec. 1920, in Beverley Nichols 25 (1926) ch. 7 

2.112 Sir Harold Edwin Boulton 

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1859-1935 

When Adam and Eve were dispossessed 

Of the garden hard by Heaven, 

They planted another one down in the west, 

'Twas Devon, glorious Devon! 

Lyrics and other Poems (1902) "Glorious Devon" 

Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, 

"Onward," the sailors cry; 

Carry the lad that's born to be king, 

Over the sea to Skye. 

National Songs and Some Ballads (1908) "Skye Boat Song" 

2.113 Elizabeth Bowen 

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1899-1973 

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself--in fact, 

till it does that, it hardly is experience. 

Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 1, ch. 1 

In fact, it is about five o'clock in an evening that the first hour of 

spring strikes--autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the 

close of a winter day. 


Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. 

Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 2

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots 

people out. We have really no absent friends. 


Elizabeth Bowen said that she [Edith Sitwell] looked like "a high altar on 

the move." 

V. Glendinning Edith Sitwell (1981) ch. 25 

I suppose art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has 

stopped hurting. 

Heat of the Day (1949) ch. 16 

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, 

quietly talking alone. 

House in Paris (1935) pt. 1, ch. 2 

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. 


Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as 

they were projected. 


Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. 


Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. 


My failing to have a nice ear for vowel sounds, and the Anglo-Irish 

slurred, hurried way of speaking made me take the words "Ireland" and 

"island" to be synonymous. Thus, all other countries quite surrounded by 

water took (it appeared) their generic name from ours. 

Seven Winters (1942) p. 12 

2.114 David Bowie (David Jones) 

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1947- 

Ground control to Major Tom. 

Space Oddity (1969 song) 

2.115 Sir Maurice Bowra 

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1898-1971 

There is also that story, perhaps apocryphal, of Maurice [Bowra]'s 

decision to get married. When he announced that he had at last chosen 

a girl, a friend remonstrated: "But you can't marry anyone as plain as 

that." Maurice answered: "My dear fellow, buggers can't be choosers." 

Francis King in Hugh Lloyd-Jones Maurice Bowra: a Celebration (1974) 

p. 150 

I'm a man more dined against than dining. 

In John Betjeman Summoned by Bells (1960) ch. 9 

2.116 Charles Boyer 

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1898-1978 

Come with me to the Casbah. 

Catch-phrase often attributed to Boyer, but L. Swindell Charles Boyer 

(1983) ch. 7 says: Algiers...is the picture in which Charles Boyer did not 

say "Come wiz me to zee Casbah" to Hedy Lamarr....Boyer and Lamarr were in 

the Casbah in most of their Algiers scenes, and they did have an important 

scene in which they were not in the Casbah, but the dialogue was nowhere 

close. 

2.117 Lord Brabazon (Baron Brabazon of Tara) 

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1884-1964 

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are 

going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about 

it. 

Hansard (Lords) 21 June 1955, col. 207 

2.118 Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. 

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Charles Brackett 1892-1969 

Billy Wilder 1906- 

JOE GILLIS: You used to be in pictures. You used to be big. 

NORMA DESMOND: I am big. It's the pictures that got small. 

Sunset Boulevard (1950 film) 

All right, Mr de Mille, I'm ready for my close-up now. 

Sunset Boulevard (1950 film) 

2.119 Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and Walter Reisch 

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Charles Brackett 1892-1969 


Walter Reisch 1903-1983 

Iranoff: What a charming idea for Moscow to surprise us with a lady 

Comrade. 

Kopalski: If we had known we would have greeted you with flowers. 

Iranoff: Ahh--yes. 

Ninotchka: Don't make an issue of my womanhood. 

Ninotchka (1939 film) 

Ninotchka: Why should you carry other people's bags? 

Porter: Well, that's my business, Madame. 

Ninotchka: That's no business. That's social injustice. 

Porter: That depends on the tip. 

Ninotchka (1939 film) 

2.120 F. H. Bradley 

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1846-1924

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts 

about their neighbours. 

Aphorisms (1930) no. 9 

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would 

be willing to repeat. 


The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not 

happiness. 


Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon 

instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. 

Appearance and Reality (1893) preface 

Of Optimism I have said that "The world is the best of all possible 

worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil." 

Appearance and Reality (1893) preface 

That the glory of this world...is appearance leaves the world more 

glorious, if we feel it is a show of some fuller splendour; but the 

sensuous curtain is a deception...if it hides some colourless movement of 

atoms, some...unearthly ballet of bloodless categories. 

Principles of Logic (1883) bk. 3, pt. 2, ch. 4 

2.121 Omar Bradley 

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1893-1981 

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. 

Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 10 Nov. 1948, in Collected Writings 

(1967) vol. 1, p. 588 

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the 

Mount. 

Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 10 Nov. 1948, in Collected Writings 

(1967) vol. 1, p. 588 

Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. 

Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would 

involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and 

with the wrong enemy. 

US Cong. Senate Comm. on Armed Services (1951) vol. 2, p. 732 

2.122 Caryl Brahms (Doris Caroline Abrahams) and S. J. Simon (Simon Jasha Skidelsky) 

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Caryl Brahms 1901-1982 

The suffragettes were triumphant. Woman's place was in the gaol. 

No Nightingales (1944) pt. 6, ch. 37 

2.123 John Braine 

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1922-

Room at the top. 

Title of novel (1957). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 566:9 

2.124 Ernest Bramah (Ernest Bramah Smith) 

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1868-1942 

It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for 

the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops. 

Wallet of Kai Lung (1900) p. 6 

In his countenance this person read an expression of no-encouragement 

towards his venture. 


The whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and 

honourable high-mindedness. 


2.125 Georges Braque 

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1882-1963 

L'Art est fait pour troubler, la Science rassure. 

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. 

Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 (Day and Night, Notebooks, 1952) 

p. 11 

La v‚rit‚ existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. 

Truth exists; only lies are invented. 

Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 (Day and Night, Notebooks, 1952) 

p. 20 

2.126 John Bratby 

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1928- 

A real art student wears coloured socks, has a fringe and a beard, wears 

dirty jeans and an equally dirty seaman's pullover, carries a sketch-book, 

is despised by the rest of society, and loafs in a coffee bar. 

Breakdown (1960) ch. 8 

2.127 Irving Brecher 

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1914- 

I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at 

the stork. 

(Marx Brothers) At the Circus (1939 film) 

Time wounds all heals. 

Marx Brothers Go West (1940 film)

2.128 Bertolt Brecht 

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1898-1956 

Und der Haifisch, der hat Z„hne 

Und die tr„gt er im Gesicht 

Und Macheath, der hat ein Messer 

Doch das Messer sieht man nicht. 

Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, 

And he shows them pearly white. 

Just a jack-knife has Macheath, dear 

And he keeps it out of sight. 

Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera, 1928) prologue 

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral. 

Food comes first, then morals. 

Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera, 1928) act 2, sc. 3 

Was ist ein Einbruch in eine Bank gegen die Grndung einer Bank? 

What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank? 

Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera, 1928) act 3, sc. 3 

Andrea: Unglcklich das Land, das keine Helden hat!... 

Galilei: Nein. Unglcklich das Land, das Helden n”tig hat. 

Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes!... 

Galileo: No. Unhappy the land that needs heroes. 

Leben des Galilei (Life of Galileo, 1939) sc. 13 

Man merkts, hier ist zu lang kein Krieg gewesen. Wo soll da Moral 

herkommen, frag ich? Frieden, das ist nur Schlamperei, erst der Krieg 

schafft Ordnung. 

One observes, they have gone too long without a war here. What is the 

moral, I ask? Peace is nothing but slovenliness, only war creates order. 

Mutter Courage (Mother Courage, 1939) sc. 1 

Weil ich ihm nicht trau, wir sind befreundet. 

Because I don't trust him, we are friends. 


Die sch”nsten Pl„n sind schon zuschanden geworden durch die Kleinlichheit 

von denen, wo sie ausfhren sollten, denn die Kaiser selber k”nnen ja nix 

machen. 

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to 

carry them out, for the Emperor himself can actually do nothing. 


Der Krieg findet immer einen Ausweg. 

War always finds a way. 


Sagen Sie mir nicht, dass Friede ausgebrochen ist, wo ich eben neue

Vorr„te eingekauft hab. 

Don't tell me peace has broken out, when I've just bought some new 

supplies. 


2.129 Gerald Brenan 

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1894- 

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world 

is love. The poor know that it is money. 

Thoughts in a Dry Season (1978) p. 22 

Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are really sudden explosions 

of faith. Dead religions do not produce them. 

Thoughts in a Dry Season (1978) p. 45 

2.130 Aristide Briand 

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1862-1932 

Les hautes parties contractantes d‚clarent solennellement...qu'elles 

condamnent le recours … la guerre...et y renoncent en tant qu'instrument 

de politique nationale dans leurs relations mutuelles...le rŠglement ou la 

solution de tous les diff‚rends ou conflits--de quelque nature ou de 

quelque origine qu'ils puissent ˆtre--qui pourront surgir entre elles ne 

devra jamais ˆtre cherch‚ que par des moyens pacifiques. 

The high contracting powers solemnly declare. that they condemn recourse 

to war and renounce it...as an instrument of their national policy towards 

each other....The settlement or the solution of all disputes or conflicts 

of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be which may 

arise...shall never be sought by either side except by pacific means. 

Draft, 20 June 1927, which became part of the Kellogg Pact, 1928 , in Le 

Temps 13 Apr. 1928 

2.131 Vera Brittain 

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1893-1970 

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. 

Rebel Passion (1964) ch. 1 

2.132 David Broder 

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1929- 

Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years 

organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. 

Washington Post 18 July 1973, p. A 25 

2.133 Jacob Bronowski 

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1908-1974

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by 

contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye....The hand is the 

cutting edge of the mind. 

Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3 

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are 

on the way to a pertinent answer. 

Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 4 

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole 

through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. 

Face of Violence (1954) ch. 5 

The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team and 

who just miss the prizes at the flower show. 

Face of Violence (1954) ch. 6 

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science 

has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to 

cast on nature. 

Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252 

2.134 Rupert Brooke 

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1887-1915 

Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill, 

Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. 

Cambridge Review 8 Dec. 1910, "Sonnet" 

Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon 

Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss 

Of blankets; grainy wood; live hair that is 

Shining and free; blue-massing clouds; the keen 

Unpassioned beauty of a great machine; 

The benison of hot water; furs to touch; 

The good smell of old clothes. 

New Numbers no. 3 (1914) "The Great Lover" 

Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, 

And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, 

With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, 

To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, 

Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, 

Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, 

And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, 

And all the little emptiness of love! 

Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, 

Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending, 

Naught broken save this body, lost but breath; 

Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there 

But only agony, and that has ending; 

And the worst friend and enemy is but Death. 

New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "Peace" 

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, 

Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; 

Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall;

And if these poor limbs die, safest of all. 

New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "Safety" 

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! 

There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, 

But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. 

These laid the world away; poured out the red 

Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be 

Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, 

That men call age; and those that would have been, 

Their sons, they gave, their immortality. 

New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "The Dead" 

Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, 

And paid his subjects with a royal wage; 

And Nobleness walks in our ways again; 

And we have come into our heritage. 

New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "The Dead" 

If I should die, think only this of me: 

That there's some corner of a foreign field 

That is for ever England. There shall be 

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; 

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, 

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, 

A body of England's, breathing English air, 

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. 

And think, this heart, all evil shed away, 

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less 

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; 

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; 

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, 

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. 

New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "The Soldier" 

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; 

But is there anything Beyond? 

1914 and Other Poems (1915) "Heaven" 

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time 

Is wetter water, slimier slime! 


Oh! never fly conceals a hook, 

Fish say, in the Eternal Brook, 

But more than mundane weeds are there, 

And mud, celestially fair; 

Fat caterpillars drift around, 

And Paradisal grubs are found; 

Unfading moths, immortal flies, 

And the worm that never dies. 

And in that Heaven of all their wish, 

There shall be no more land, say fish. 


But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, 

And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own. 

1914 and Other Poems (1915) "There's Wisdom in Women" 

Just now the lilac is in bloom,

All before my little room. 

1914 and Other Poems (1915) "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester" 

Here tulips bloom as they are told; 

Unkempt about those hedges blows 

An English unofficial rose; 

And there the unregulated sun 

Slopes down to rest when day is done, 

And wakes a vague unpunctual star, 

A slippered Hesper; and there are 

Meads towards Haslingfield and Coton 

Where das Betreten's not verboten. 

...would I were 

In Grantchester, in Grantchester! 


And in that garden, black and white, 

Creep whispers through the grass all night; 

And spectral dance, before the dawn, 

A hundred Vicars down the lawn; 

Curates, long dust, will come and go 

On lissom, clerical, printless toe; 

And oft between the boughs is seen 

The sly shade of a Rural Dean. 


God! I will pack, and take a train, 

And get me to England once again! 

For England's the one land, I know, 

Where men with Splendid Hearts may go; 

And Cambridgeshire, of all England, 

The shire for Men who Understand; 

And of that district I prefer 

The lovely hamlet Grantchester. 

For Cambridge people rarely smile, 

Being urban, squat, and packed with guile. 


They love the Good; they worship Truth; 

They laugh uproariously in youth; 

(And when they get to feeling old, 

They up and shoot themselves, I'm told). 


Oh, is the water sweet and cool, 

Gentle and brown, above the pool? 

And laughs the immortal river still 

Under the mill, under the mill? 

Say, is there Beauty yet to find? 

And Certainty? and Quiet kind? 

Deep meadows yet, for to forget 

The lies, and truths, and pain?...oh! yet 

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? 

And is there honey still for tea? 


2.135 Anita Brookner 

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1938-

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being 

offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. 

Hotel du Lac (1984) ch. 7 

Blanche Vernon occupied her time most usefully in keeping feelings at bay. 

Misalliance (1986) ch. 1 

2.136 Mel Brooks 

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1926- 

That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it. 

The Producers (1968 film) 

2.137 Heywood Broun 

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1888-1939 

Free speech is about as good a cause as the world has ever known. But, 

like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of 

things which seem at some given moment more vital....Everybody favours 

free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. 

New York World 23 Oct. 1926, p. 13 

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve 

his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just 

entering the room. 

New York World 6 Feb. 1928, p. 11 

Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend 

successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. 

Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons. 

Seeing Things at Night (1921) "Holding a Baby" 

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. 

Sitting on the World (1924) "The Last Review" 

2.138 H. Rap Brown 

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1943- 

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. 

Speech at Washington, 27 July 1967, in Washington Post 28 July 1967, p. A7 

2.139 Helen Gurley Brown 

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1922- 

Sex and the single girl. 


2.140 Ivor Brown 

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1891-1974

For nearly a century after his death, Shakespeare remained more a theme 

for criticism by the few than a subject of adulation by the many. 

Shakespeare (1949) ch. 1 

2.141 John Mason Brown 

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1900-1969 

Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra--and sank. 

New York Post 11 Nov. 1937, p. 18 

2.142 Lew Brown (Louis Brownstein) 

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1893-1958 

Life is just a bowl of cherries. 

Title of song (1931; music by Ray Henderson) 

2.143 Nacio Herb Brown 

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1896-1964 

See Arthur Freed (6.44) 

2.144 Cecil Browne 

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But not so odd 

As those who choose 

A Jewish God, 

But spurn the Jews. 

Reply to verse by William Norman Ewer: see 78:4 

2.145 Sir Frederick Browning 

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1896-1965 

I think we might be going a bridge too far. 

Expressing reservations about the Arnhem "Market Garden" operation to 

Field Marshal Montgomery on 10 Sept. 1944, in R. E. Urquhart Arnhem 

(1958) p. 4 

2.146 Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider) 

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1925-1966 

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand 

them. 

In John Cohen Essential Lenny Bruce (1970) p. 59 

2.147 Anita Bryant 

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1940- 

If homosexuality were the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce. 


2.148 Martin Buber 

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1878-1965 

Der Mensch wird am Du zum Ich. 

Through the Thou a person becomes I. 

Ich und Du (I and Thou, 1923) in Werke (1962) vol. 1, p. 97 

2.149 John Buchan (Baron Tweedsmuir) 

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1875-1940 

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. 

Memory Hold-the-Door (1940) ch. 2 

"Back to Glasgow to do some work for the cause," I said lightly. "Just 

so," he said, with a grin. "It's a great life if you don't weaken." 

Mr Standfast (1919) ch. 5 

An atheist is man who has no invisible means of support. 

In H. E. Fosdick On Being a Real Person (1943) ch. 10 

2.150 Frank Buchman 

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1878-1961 

I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of 

defence against the anti-Christ of Communism. 

New York World-Telegram 26 Aug. 1936 

Suppose everybody cared enough, everybody shared enough, wouldn't 

everybody have enough? There is enough in the world for everyone's need, 

but not enough for everyone's greed. 

Remaking the World (1947) p. 56 

2.151 Gene Buck (Edward Eugene Buck) and Herman Ruby 

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Gene Buck 1885-1957 

Herman Ruby 1891-1959 

That Shakespearian rag,-- 

Most intelligent, very elegant. 

That Shakespearian Rag (1912 song; music by David Stamper). Cf. T. S. 

Eliot 76:21 

2.152 Richard Buckle 

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1916-

John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison are the greatest composers 

since Beethoven, with Paul McCartney way out in front. 

Sunday Times 29 Dec. 1963 

2.153 Arthur Buller 

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1874-1944 

There was a young lady named Bright, 

Whose speed was far faster than light; 

She set out one day 

In a relative way 

And returned on the previous night. 

Punch 19 Dec. 1923, "Relativity" 

2.154 Ivor Bulmer-Thomas 

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1905- 

If he [Harold Wilson] ever went to school without any boots it was because 

he was too big for them. 

Speech at Conservative Party Conference, in Manchester Guardian 13 Oct. 

1949 

2.155 Luis Bu¤uel 

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1900-1983 

Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie. 

The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie. 


Grƒce … Dieu, je suis toujours ath‚e. 

Thanks to God, I am still an atheist. 

In Le Monde 16 Dec. 1959 

2.156 Anthony Burgess 

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1917- 

Who ever heard of a clockwork orange? Then I read a malenky bit out loud 

in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: "The attempt to impose upon 

man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the 

last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and 

conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my 

sword-pen." 

A Clockwork Orange (1962) p. 21 

It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my 

catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me. 

Earthly Powers (1980) p. 7 

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his

child. 

Inside Mr Enderby (1963) pt. 1, ch. 4 

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. 

New York Times Book Review 4 Dec. 1966, p. 74 

2.157 Johnny Burke 

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1908-1964 

Every time it rains, it rains 

Pennies from heaven. 

Don't you know each cloud contains 

Pennies from heaven? 

You'll find your fortune falling 

All over town 

Be sure that your umbrella 

Is upside down. 

Pennies from Heaven (1936 song; music by Arthur Johnston) 

Like Webster's Dictionary, we're Morocco bound. 

The Road to Morocco (1942 song from film The Road to Morocco; music by 

James van Heusen) 

2.158 John Burns 

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1858-1943 

"What have you in the Mississippi?" he [John Burns] asked an American who 

had spoken disparagingly of the Thames. The American replied that there 

was water--miles and miles of it. "Ah, but you see, the Thames is liquid 

history," said Burns. 

Daily Mail 25 Jan. 1943 

2.159 William S. Burroughs 

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1914- 

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little 

tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through 

human consciousness control events. 

Paris Review Fall 1965 

2.160 Benjamin Hapgood Burt 

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1880-1950 

One evening in October, when I was one-third sober, 

An' taking home a "load" with manly pride; 

My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter, 

And a pig came up an' lay down by my side; 

Then we sang "It's all fair weather when good fellows get together," 

Till a lady passing by was heard to say: 

"You can tell a man who 'boozes' by the company he chooses" 

And the pig got up and slowly walked away. 

The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away (1933 song)

2.161 Nat Burton 

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There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, 

Tomorrow, just you wait and see. 

White Cliffs of Dover (1941 song; music by Walter Kent) 

2.162 R. A. Butler (Baron Butler of Saffron Walden) 

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1902-1982 

Politics is the Art of the Possible. That is what these pages show I have 

tried to achieve--not more--and that is what I have called my book. 

The Art of the Possible (1971) p. xi. Cf. Bismarck's "Die Politik ist die 

Lehre vom M”glichen," Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 84:20 

Reporter: Mr Butler, would you say that this [Anthony Eden] is the best 

Prime Minister we have? 

R. A. Butler: Yes. 

Interview at London Airport, 8 Jan. 1956, in R. A. Butler The Art of the 

Possible (1971) ch. 9 

2.163 Ralph Butler and Noel Gay (Richard Moxon Armitage) 

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1898-1954 

The sun has got his hat on 

Hip hip hip hooray! 

The sun has got his hat on 

And he's coming out today. 

The Sun Has Got His Hat On (1932 song) 

2.164 Samuel Butler 

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1835-1902 

Yet meet we shall, and part, and meet again 

Where dead men meet, on lips of living men. 

Athenaeum 4 Jan. 1902, 

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want 

of money is so quite as truly. 

Erewhon (1872) ch. 20 

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it 

is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He 

tolerates their existence. 

Erewhon Revisited (1901) ch. 14 

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument 

as one goes on. 

Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays 

on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69 

An honest God's the noblest work of man.

Further Extracts from Notebooks (1934) p. 26. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of 

Quotations (1979) 270:17 and 379:24 

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his own property at the 

resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. 

Further Extracts from Notebooks (1934) p. 27 

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, 

his money, and his religious opinions. 


The course of true anything never does run smooth. 


Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those 

who do not wish to hear it. 


I heard a man say that brigands demand your money or your life, whereas 

women require both. 


It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another 

and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very 

amusing. 

Letters between Samuel Butler and Miss E. M. A. Savage 1871-1885 (1935) 

21 Nov. 1884 

The most perfect humour and irony is generally quite unconscious. 

Life and Habit (1877) ch. 2 

It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of 

making another egg. 

Life and Habit (1877) ch. 8 

Life is one long process of getting tired. 

Notebooks (1912) ch. 1 

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient 

premises. 


All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every 

organism to live beyond its income. 


The healthy stomach is nothing if not conservative. Few radicals have good 

digestions. 


Always eat grapes downwards--that is, always eat the best grape first; in 

this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will 

seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have 

a good grape in the lot. Besides you will be tempting providence to kill 

you before you come to the best. 


How thankful we ought to be that Wordsworth was only a poet and not a 

musician. Fancy a symphony by Wordsworth! Fancy having to sit it out! And 

fancy what it would have been if he had written fugues!


The history of art is the history of revivals. 


Genius...has been defined as a supreme capacity for taking trouble....It 

might be more fitly described as a supreme capacity for getting its 

possessors into trouble of all kinds and keeping them therein so long as 

the genius remains. 


An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard 

one side of the case. God has written all the books. 


The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with 

him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself 

too. 


A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. 


To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy 

instinct for it. 


The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on 

the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, 

but the milk is more likely to be watered. 


I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. 


Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room 

The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; 

Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed, and set at naught, 

Beauty crieth in an attic, and no man regardeth. 

O God! O Montreal! 

Spectator 18 May 1878, "Psalm of Montreal" 

I do not like books. I believe I have the smallest library of any literary 

man in London, and I have no wish to increase it. I keep my books at the 

British Museum and at Mudie's, and it makes me very angry if any one gives 

me one for my private library. 

Universal Review Dec. 1890, "Ramblings in Cheapside" 

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with 

equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single 

lifetime. 

Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 5 

They would have been equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion 

doubted, and at seeing it practised. 


All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to 

enjoy it--and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will 

allow.


The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it 

on so thick and exactly in the right places. 


Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes 

the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. 


Beyond a haricot vein in one of my legs, I'm as young as ever I was. Old 

indeed! There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle! 


'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. 

Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 67. Cf. Tennyson in Oxford Dictionary of 


2.165 Max Bygraves 

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1922- 

See Eric Sykes and Max Bygraves (19.137) 

2.166 James Branch Cabell 

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1879-1958 

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; 

and the pessimist fears this is true. 

Silver Stallion (1926) bk. 4, ch. 26 

3.0 C 

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3.1 Irving Caesar 

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1895- 

Picture you upon my knee, 

Just tea for two and two for tea. 

Tea for Two (1925 song; music by Vincent Youmans) 

3.2 John Cage 

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1912- 

poetry. 

I have nothing to say 

and I am saying it and that is 

Silence (1961) "Lecture on nothing" 

3.3 James Cagney

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1899-1986 

Frank Gorshin--oh, Frankie, just in passing: I never said [in any film] 

"Mmm, you dirty rat!" What I actually did say was "Judy! Judy! Judy!" 

Speech at American Film Institute banquet, 13 Mar. 1974, in Cagney by 

Cagney (1976) ch. 14 

3.4 Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen) 

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1913- 

Love and marriage, love and marriage, 

Go together like a horse and carriage, 

This I tell ya, brother, 

Ya can't have one without the other. 

Love and Marriage (1955 song; music by James Van Heusen) 

It's that second time you hear your love song sung, 

Makes you think perhaps, that 

Love like youth is wasted on the young. 

The Second Time Around (1960 song; music by James Van Heusen) 

3.5 James M. Cain 

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1892-1977 

The postman always rings twice. 

Title of novel (1934) and play (1936) 

3.6 Michael Caine (Maurice Joseph Micklewhite) 

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1933- 

Not many people know that. 


3.7 Sir Joseph Cairns 

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1920- 

The betrayal of Ulster, the cynical and entirely undemocratic banishment 

of its properly elected Parliament and a relegation to the status of 

a fuzzy wuzzy colony is, I hope, a last betrayal contemplated by Downing 

Street because it is the last that Ulster will countenance. 

Speech on retiring as Lord Mayor of Belfast, 31 May 1972, in Daily 

Telegraph 1 June 1972 

3.8 Charles Calhoun 

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1897-1972 

Shake, rattle and roll. 

Title of song (1954)

3.9 James Callaghan (Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff) 

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1912- 

We say that what Britain needs is a new social contract. That is what 

this document [Labour's Programme for Britain] is about. 

Speech at Labour Party Annual Conference, 2 Oct. 1972, in Conference 

Report (1972) p. 115 

A lie can be half-way around the world before truth has got his boots on. 


I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is 

mounting chaos. 

In interview at London Airport, 10 Jan. 1979, in The Sun 11 Jan. 1979; the 

Sun headlined its report:"Crisis? What Crisis?" 

3.10 Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil) 

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1879-1944 

As a white candle 

In a holy place, 

So is the beauty 

Of an ag‚d face. 

Irishry (1913) "Old Woman" 

3.11 Mrs Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Campbell) 

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1865-1940 

Oh dear me--its too late to do anything but accept you and love you--but 

when you were quite a little boy somebody ought to have said "hush" just 

once! 

Letter to G. B. Shaw, 1 Nov. 1912, cited in Alan Dent Bernard Shaw and Mrs 

Patrick Campbell (1952) p. 52 

A popular anecdote describes a well known actor-manager [Sir Herbert 

Beerbohm Tree] as saying one day at rehearsal to an actress of 

distinguished beauty [Mrs Patrick Campbell], "Let us give Shaw a beefsteak 

and put some red blood into him." "For heaven's sake, don't," she 

exclaimed: "he is bad enough as it is; but if you give him meat no woman 

in London will be safe." 

G. B. Shaw in Frank Harris Contemporary Portraits (1919) p. 331 

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in 

the street and frighten the horses. 

In Daphne Fielding Duchess of Jermyn Street (1964) ch. 2 

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be 

there when it breaks. 

In The Times 13 Dec. 1968 

It was Mrs Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw 

her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the 

deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the

chaise-longue." 

Alexander Woollcott While Rome Burns (1934) "The First Mrs Tanqueray" 

3.12 Roy Campbell 

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1901-1957 

Of all the clever people round me here 

I most delight in Me-- 

Mine is the only voice I care to hear, 

And mine the only face I like to see. 

Adamastor (1930) "Home Thoughts in Bloomsbury" 

You praise the firm restraint with which they write-- 

I'm with you there, of course: 

They use the snaffle and the curb all right, 

But where's the bloody horse? 

Adamastor (1930) "On Some South African Novelists" 

I hate "Humanity" and all such abstracts: but I love people. Lovers of 

"Humanity" generally hate people and children, and keep parrots or puppy 

dogs. 

Light on a Dark Horse (1951) ch. 13 

Translations (like wives) are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the 

least attractive. 

Poetry Review June-July 1949 

Giraffes!--a People 

Who live between the earth and skies, 

Each in his lone religious steeple, 

Keeping a light-house with his eyes. 

Talking Bronco (1946) "Dreaming Spires" 

South Africa, renowned both far and wide 

For politics and little else beside. 

The Wayzgoose (1928) p. 7 

3.13 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 

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1836-1908 

There is a phrase which seems in itself somewhat self-evident, which is 

often used to account for a good deal--that "war is war." But when you 

come to ask about it, then you are told that the war now going on is not 

war. [Laughter] When is a war not a war? When it is carried on by methods 

of barbarism in South Africa. 

Speech to National Reform Union, 14 June 1901, in Daily News 15 June 1901 

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people 

themselves. 

Speech at Stirling, 23 Nov. 1905, in Daily News 24 Nov. 1905 

3.14 Albert Camus 

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1913-1960

Intellectuel = celui qui se d‚double. 

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. 

Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 41 

La politique et le sort des hommes sont form‚s par des hommes sans id‚alet 

sans grandeur. Ceux qui ont une grandeur en eux ne font pas de politique. 

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and 

without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for 

politics. 

Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 99 

Vous savez ce qu'est le charme: une maniŠre de s'entendre r‚pondre oui 

sans avoir pos‚ aucune question claire. 

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having 

asked any clear question. 

La Chute (The Fall, 1956) p. 62 

Nous sommes tous des cas exceptionnels. Nous voulons tous faire appel de 

quelque chose! Chacun exige d'ˆtre innocent, … tout prix, mˆme si, pour 

cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. 

We are all special cases. We all want to appeal to something! Everyone 

insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest 

of the human race and heaven. 


C'est si vrai que nous nous confions rarement … ceux qui sont meilleurs 

que nous. 

It is very true that we seldom confide in those who are better than 

ourselves. 


Je vais vous dire un grand secret, mon cher. N'attendez pas le jugement 

dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours. 

I'll tell you a great secret, my friend. Don't wait for the last 

judgement. It happens every day. 


Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-ˆtre hier, je ne sais pas. 

Mother died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday, I don't know. 

L'tranger (The Outsider, 1944) p. 9 

Qu'est-ce qu'un homme r‚volt‚? Un homme qui dit non. 

What is a rebel? A man who says no. 

L'Homme r‚volt‚ (The Rebel, 1951) p. 25 

Toutes les r‚volutions modernes ont abouti … un renforcement de l' tat. 

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State. 


Tout r‚volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en h‚r‚tique.

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic. 


La lutte elle-mˆme vers les sommets suffit … remplir un c”urd'homme. Il 

faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux. 

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart. 

One must imagine that Sisyphus is happy. 

Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942) p. 168 

3.15 Elias Canetti 

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1905- 

Alles was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe. 

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. 

Die Provinz der Menschen (The Human Province, 1973) p. 269 

3.16 Hughie Cannon 

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1877-1912 

Won't you come home Bill Bailey, won't you come home? 

Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home (1902 song) 

3.17 John R. Caples 

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1900- 

They laughed when I sat down at the piano. But when I started to play! 

Advertisement for US School of Music, in Physical Culture Dec. 1925, p. 95 

3.18 Al Capone 

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1899-1947 

Don't you get the idea I'm one of these goddam radicals. Don't get the 

idea I'm knocking the American system. 

Interview, circa 1929, in Claud Cockburn In Time of Trouble (1956) ch. 16 

Once in the racket you're always in it. 

Philadelphia Public Ledger 18 May 1929 

3.19 Truman Capote 

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1924-1984 

Mr Capote...commented on the difficulty he had reading the Beat novels. 

He had tried but he had been unable to finish any one of them...."None of 

these people have anything interesting to say," he observed, "and none of 

them can write, not even Mr Kerouac." What they do, he added, "isn't 

writing at all--it's typing." 

Report of television discussion, in New Republic 9 Feb. 1959

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. 


Other voices, other rooms. 


3.20 Al Capp 

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1909-1979 

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to 

the utterly bewildered. 

In National Observer 1 July 1963 

3.21 Ethna Carbery (Anna MacManus) 

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1866-1902 

Oh, Kathaleen N¡ Houlihan, your road's a thorny way, 

And 'tis a faithful soul would walk the flints with you for aye, 

Would walk the sharp and cruel flints until his locks grew grey. 

Four Winds Of Eirinn (1902) "Passing of the Gael" 

3.22 Hoagy Carmichael (Hoagland Howard Carmichael) 

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1899-1981 

See Stuart Gorrell (7.46) 

3.23 Stokely Carmichael and Charles Vernon Hamilton 

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Stokely Carmichael 1941- 

Charles Vernon Hamilton 1929- 

The adoption of the concept of Black Power is one of the most legitimate 

and healthy developments in American politics and race relations in our 

time....It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to 

recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for 

black people to begin to define their own goals, to lead their own 

organizations and to support those organizations. It is a call to reject 

the racist institutions and values of this society. 

Black Power (1967) ch. 2 

3.24 Dale Carnegie 

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1888-1955 

How to win friends and influence people. 


3.25 J. L. Carr 

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"I've never been spoken to like this before in all my thirty years' 

experience," she wails. "You have not had thirty years' experience, Mrs 

Grindle-Jones," he says witheringly. "You have had one year's experience 

30 times." 

Harpole Report (1972) p. 128 

3.26 Edward Carson (Baron Carson) 

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1854-1935 

My only great qualification for being put at the head of the Navy is that 

I am very much at sea. 

In Ian Colvin Life of Lord Carson (1936) vol. 3, ch. 23 

3.27 Jimmy Carter 

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1924- 

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. 

Speech to Bible class at Plains, Georgia, March 1976, in Boston Sunday 

Herald Advertiser 11 Apr. 1976 

I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next president. 

Said to the son of a campaign supporter, Nov. 1975, in I'll Never Lie to 

You (1976) ch. 1 

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my 

heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do--and 

I have done it--and God forgives me for it. 

Playboy Nov. 1976 

3.28 Sydney Carter 

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1915- 

I danced in the morning 

When the world was begun 

And I danced in the moon 

And the stars and the sun 

And I came down from heaven 

And I danced on the earth-- 

At Bethlehem I had my birth. 

Dance then wherever you may be, 

I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, 

And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be 

And I'll lead you all in the dance, said he. 

Nine Carols or Ballads (1967) "Lord of the Dance" 

It's God they ought to crucify 

Instead of you and me, 

I said to the carpenter 

A-hanging on the tree. 

Nine Carols or Ballads (1967) "Friday Morning" 

3.29 Pablo Casals 

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1876-1973 

It [the cello] is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but 

younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. 

In Time 29 Apr. 1957 

3.30 Ted Castle (Baron Castle of Islington) 

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1907-1979 

In place of strife. 

Title of Labour Government's White Paper, 17 Jan. 1969, suggested by 

Castle to his wife, Barbara Castle (Secretary of State for 

Employment)--see Barbara Castle Diaries (1984) 15 Jan. 1969 

3.31 Harry Castling and C. W. Murphy 

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Let's all go down the Strand! 


I'll be leader, you can march behind 

Come with me, and see what we can find 


Let's All Go Down the Strand! (1909 song) 

3.32 Fidel Castro 

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1926- 

La historia me absolv‚ra. 

History will absolve me. 

Title of pamphlet (1953) 

3.33 Willa Cather 

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1873-1947 

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics 

and art are strangers. 

Commonweal 17 Apr. 1936 

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. 

O Pioneers! (1913) pt. 1, ch. 5 

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live 

than other things do. 

O Pioneers! (1913) pt. 2, ch. 8 

3.34 Mr Justice Caulfield (Sir Bernard Caulfield) 

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1914- 

Remember Mary Archer in the witness box. Your vision of her will probably 

never disappear. Has she elegance? Has she fragrance? Would she

have--without the strain of this trial--a radiance? 

Summing up of court case between Jeffrey Archer and the News of the World, 

July 1987, in The Times 24 July 1987 

3.35 Charles Causley 

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1917- 

O are you the boy 

Who would wait on the quay 

With the silver penny 

And the apricot tree? 

Farewell, Aggie Weston (1951) "Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience" 

Timothy Winters comes to school 

With eyes as wide as a football-pool, 

Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters: 

A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters. 

Union Street (1957) "Timothy Winters" 

3.36 Constantine Cavafy 

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1863-1933 

What are we all waiting for, gathered together like this on the public 

square? 

The Barbarians are coming today. 

(Waiting for the Barbarians, 1904) in Poems (1963) 

You will find no new places, no other seas, 

The town will follow you. 

(Poems, 1911) ("The Town") 

3.37 Edith Cavell 

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1865-1915 

They have all been very kind to me here. But this I would say, standing, 

as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not 

enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. 

Words spoken in prison the night before her execution, in The Times 

23 Oct. 1915 

3.38 Lord David Cecil 

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1902-1986 

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty 

is to enjoy himself: his efforts should be directed to developing his 

faculty of appreciation. 

Reading as one of the Fine Arts (1949) p. 4 

3.39 Patrick Reginald Chalmers 

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1872-1942 

What's lost upon the roundabouts we pulls up on the swings! 

Green Days and Blue Days (1912) "Roundabouts and Swings" 

3.40 Joseph Chamberlain 

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1836-1914 

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. 

In letter from A. J. Balfour to 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 24 Mar. 1886, 

in A. J. Balfour Chapters of Autobiography (1930) ch. 16 

It is said that the City is the centre of the world's finance, that the 

fate of our manufactures therefore is a secondary consideration; that, 

provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the 

clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop. Now 

I ask you, gentlemen, whether...that is not a very short-sighted view. 

Speech at the Guildhall, 19 Jan. 1904, in The Times 20 Jan. 1904 

In the great revolution which separated the United States from Great 

Britain the greatest man that that revolution produced...was Alexander 

Hamilton...he left a precious legacy to his countrymen when he disclosed 

to them the secrets of union and when he said to them, "Learn to think 

continentally." And, my fellow-citizens, if I may venture to give you 

a message, now I would say to you, "Learn to think Imperially." 

Speech at the Guildhall, 19 Jan. 1904, in The Times 20 Jan. 1904 

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has 

come. 

Speech at Birmingham, 12 May 1904, in The Times 13 May 1904 

We are not downhearted. The only trouble is we cannot understand what is 

happening to our neighbours. 

Speech at Smethwick, 18 Jan. 1906, in The Times 19 Jan. 1906 

3.41 Neville Chamberlain 

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1869-1940 

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, 

but all are losers. 

Speech at Kettering, 3 July 1938, in The Times 4 July 1938 

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging 

trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away 

country [Czechoslovakia] between people of whom we know nothing. 

Broadcast speech, 27 Sept. 1938, in The Times 28 Sept. 1938 

This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, 

and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine...."We 

regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval 

Agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war 

with one another again." 

Speech at Heston Airport, 30 Sept. 1938, in The Times 1 Oct. 1938 

My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has 

come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it

is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And 

now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds. 

Speech from window of 10 Downing Street, 30 Sept. 1938, in The Times 

1 Oct. 1938 

This morning, the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German 

government a final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by eleven 

o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from 

Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that 

no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country 

is at war with Germany. 

Radio broadcast, 3 Sept. 1939, in The Times 4 Sept. 1939 

Whatever may be the reason--whether it was that Hitler thought he might 

get away with what he had got without fighting for it, or whether it was 

that after all the preparations were not sufficiently complete--however, 

one thing is certain--he missed the bus. 

Speech at Central Hall, Westminster, 4 Apr. 1940, in The Times 5 Apr. 1940 

3.42 Harry Champion 

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1866-1942 

See Charles Collins, E. A. Sheppard, and Fred Terry (3.79) 

3.43 Raymond Chandler 

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1888-1959 

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is 

neither tarnished nor afraid. 

Atlantic Monthly Dec. 1944 "The Simple Art of Murder" 

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not 

shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. 

I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display 

handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on 

them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. 

The Big Sleep (1939) ch. 1 

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass 

window. 

Farewell, My Lovely (1940) ch. 13 

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and 

tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is 

something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an 

infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split. 

Letter to Edward Weeks, 18 Jan. 1947, in F. MacShane Life of Raymond 

Chandler (1976) ch. 7 

A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup. 

The Little Sister (1949) ch. 26 (of Los Angeles) 

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to 

Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. 

Letter to Charles W. Morton, 12 Dec. 1945, in Dorothy Gardiner and 

Katherine S. Walker Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962) p. 126

3.44 Coco Chanel 

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1883-1971 

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. 

In Marcel Haedrich Coco Chanel, Her Life, Her Secrets (1971) ch. 1 

3.45 Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin) 

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1889-1977 

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. 

My Autobiography (1964) ch. 10 

3.46 Arthur Chapman 

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1873-1935 

Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, 

Out where the smile dwells a little longer, 

That's where the West begins. 

Out Where the West Begins (1916) p. 1 

3.47 Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin 

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Graham Chapman 1941-1989 

John Cleese 1939- 

Terry Gilliam 1940- 

Eric Idle 1943- 

Terry Jones 1942- 

Michael Palin 1943- 

I'm a lumberjack 

And I'm OK 

I sleep all night 

And I work all day. 

Monty Python's Big Red Book (1971) 

And now for something completely different. 

Catch-phrase popularized in Monty Python's Flying Circus (BBC TV 

programme, 1969-74) 

Your wife interested in...photographs? Eh? Know what I mean--photographs? 

He asked him knowingly...nudge nudge, snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, say 

no more. 

Monty Python's Flying Circus (BBC TV programme, 1969), in Roger Wilmut 

From Fringe to Flying Circus (1980) ch. 11 

customer: I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not 

half an hour ago from this very boutique. 

shopkeeper: Oh yes, the Norwegian Blue--what's wrong with it? 

customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it--it's dead that's what's 

wrong with it. 

shopkeeper: No, no--it's resting....It's probably pining for the

fiords.... 

customer: It's not pining--it's passed on! This parrot is no more! It 

has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late 

parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life it rests in peace--if you hadn't 

nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies! It's rung down 

the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-parrot! 



Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is 

surprisesemdash.surprise and fear...fear and surprise...our two weapons 

are fear and surprise--and ruthless efficiency...our three weapons are 

fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical devotion 

to the Pope...our four...no....Amongst our weapons--amongst our 

weaponry--are such elements as fear, surprise....I'll come in again. 



3.48 Prince Charles (Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales) 

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1948- 

I have not the slightest hesitation in making the observation that much of 

British management doesn't seem to understand the importance of the human 

factor. 

Speech to Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, 21 Feb. 1979, in Daily 

Telegraph 22 Feb. 1979 

I just come and talk to the plants, really--very important to talk to 

them, they respond I find. 

Television interview, 21 Sept. 1986, in Daily Telegraph 22 Sept. 1986 

We do need a sense of urgency in our outlook in the regeneration of 

industry and enterprise, because otherwise what really worries me is that 

we are going to end up as a fourth-rate country and I don't want to see 

that. 

Speech at Edinburgh, 26 Nov. 1985, in Scotsman 27 Nov. 1985 

Instead of designing an extension to the elegant fa‡ade of the National 

Gallery which complements it...it looks as if we may be presented with 

a kind of vast municipal fire station....I would understand better this 

type of high-tech approach if you demolished the whole of Trafalgar Square 

and started again...but what is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle on 

the face of a much-loved and elegant friend. 

Speech to Royal Institute of British Architects, 30 May 1984, in The Times 

31 May 1984. Cf. Countess Spencer 

3.49 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 

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1882-1959 

See E. L. Atkinson (1.65) 

3.50 G. K. Chesterton 

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1874-1936

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience 

is only an adventure wrongly considered. 

All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat" 

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness--or so good as 

drink. 

All Things Considered (1908) "Wine When it is Red" 

Of those days the tale is told that I once sent a telegram to my wife in 

London, which ran: "Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?" 

I cannot remember whether this story is true; but it is not unlikely, or, 

I think, unreasonable. 

Autobiography (1936) ch. 16 

They died to save their country and they only saved the world. 

Ballad of St Barbara and Other Verses (1922) "English Graves" 

Before the gods that made the gods 

Had seen their sunrise pass, 

The White Horse of the White Horse Vale 

Was cut out of the grass. 

Ballad of the White Horse (1911) bk. 1, p. 1 

I tell you naught for your comfort, 

Yea, naught for your desire, 

Save that the sky grows darker yet 

And the sea rises higher. 


For the great Gaels of Ireland 

Are the men that God made mad, 

For all their wars are merry, 

And all their songs are sad. 


The thing on the blind side of the heart, 

On the wrong side of the door, 

The green plant groweth, menacing 

Almighty lovers in the Spring; 

There is always a forgotten thing, 

And love is not secure. 


Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. 

Defendant (1901) "Defence of Penny Dreadfuls" 

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. 

Defendant (1901) "Defence of Slang" 

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of 

saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or 

sober." 

Defendant (1901) "Defence of Patriotism" 

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, 

"I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine." 

Flying Inn (1914) ch. 5 "Wine and Water" 

God made the wicked Grocer 

For a mystery and a sign,

That men might shun the awful shops 

And go to inns to dine. 

Flying Inn (1914) ch. 6 "Song against Grocers" 

He keeps a lady in a cage 

Most cruelly all day, 

And makes her count and calls her "Miss" 

Until she fades away. 

Flying Inn (1914) ch. 6 "Song against Grocers" 

The folk that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots; 

They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the hooter hoots. 

Flying Inn (1914) ch. 7 "Me Heart" 

They haven't got no noses, 

The fallen sons of Eve. 

Flying Inn (1914) ch. 15 "Song of Quoodle" 

And goodness only knowses 

The Noselessness of Man. 

Flying Inn (1914) ch. 15 "Song of Quoodle" 

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. 

Flying Inn (1914) ch. 15 

Tea, although an Oriental, 

Is a gentleman at least; 

Cocoa is a cad and coward, 

Cocoa is a vulgar beast. 

Flying Inn (1914) ch. 18 "Song of Right and Wrong" 

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, 

The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. 

A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire, 

And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire; 

A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread 

The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head. 

Flying Inn (1914) ch. 21 "Rolling English Road" 

For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, 

Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green. 

Flying Inn (1914) ch. 21 "Rolling English Road" 

Ten thousand women marched through the streets of London [in support of 

women's suffrage] saying: "We will not be dictated to," and then went off 

to become stenographers. 

In M. Ffinch G. K. Chesterton (1986) ch. 11 

The word "orthodoxy" not only no longer means being right; it practically 

means being wrong. 

Heretics (1905) ch. 1 

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only 

thing that can exist is an uninterested person. 


The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is 

a disease which arises from men not having sufficient power of expression 

to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being. 

Heretics (1905) ch. 17

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. 


After the first silence the small man said to the other: "Where does a 

wise man hide a pebble?" And the tall man answered in a low voice: "On the 

beach." The small man nodded, and after a short silence said: "Where does 

a wise man hide a leaf?" And the other answered: "In the forest." 

Innocence of Father Brown (1911) "The Sign of the Broken Sword" 

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their 

property that they may more perfectly respect it. 

Man who was Thursday (1908) ch. 4 

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at 

children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, 

which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. 

Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) bk. 1, ch. 1 

Why do you rush through the fields in trains, 

Guessing so much and so much. 

Why do you flash through the flowery meads, 

Fat-head poet that nobody reads; 

And why do you know such a frightful lot 

About people in gloves and such? 

New Poems (1933) "The Fat White Woman Speaks" (an answer to Frances 

Cornford, see 61:8) 

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means 

government by the badly educated. 

New York Times 1 Feb. 1931, pt. 5, p. 1 

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. 

Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 2 

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and 

cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in 

any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, 

not in imagination. 


Mr Shaw is (I suspect) the only man on earth who has never written any 

poetry. 


Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition 

means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It 

is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small 

and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All 

democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; 

tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. 

Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our 

groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he 

is our father. 


All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you 

leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you 

leave it to a torrent of change. 

Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. 


White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, 

And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run. 

Poems (1915) "Lepanto" 

Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far, 

Don John of Austria is going to the war, 

Stiff flags straining in the night-blasts cold 

In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old-gold, 

Torchlight crimson on the copper kettle-drums, 

Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes. 

Poems (1915) "Lepanto" 

From all that terror teaches, 

From lies of tongue and pen, 

From all the easy speeches 

That comfort cruel men, 

From sale and profanation 

Of honour and the sword, 

From sleep and from damnation, 

Deliver us, good Lord! 

Poems (1915) "A Hymn" 

Are they clinging to their crosses, F. E. Smith? 

Poems (1915) "Antichrist" 

Talk about the pews and steeples 

And the Cash that goes therewith! 

But the souls of Christian peoples... 

Chuck it, Smith! 

Poems (1915) "Antichrist" 

The souls most fed with Shakespeare's flame 

Still sat unconquered in a ring, 

Remembering him like anything. 

Poems (1915) "Shakespeare Memorial" 

John Grubby, who was short and stout 

And troubled with religious doubt, 

Refused about the age of three 

To sit upon the curate's knee. 

Poems (1915) "New Freethinker" 

And I dream of the days when work was scrappy, 

And rare in our pockets the mark of the mint, 

When we were angry and poor and happy, 

And proud of seeing our names in print. 

Poems (1915) "Song of Defeat" 

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. 

For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet. 

Poems (1915) "The Secret People" 

We only know the last sad squires ride slowly towards the sea, 

And a new people takes the land: and still it is not we. 

Poems (1915) "The Secret People"

They spoke of Progress spiring round, 

Of Light and Mrs Humphry Ward-- 

It is not true to say I frowned, 

Or ran about the room and roared; 

I might have simply sat and snored-- 

I rose politely in the club 

And said,"I feel a little bored. 

Will someone take me to a pub?" 

Poems (1915) "Ballade of an Anti-Puritan" 

The gallows in my garden, people say, 

Is new and neat and adequately tall. 

I tie the noose on in a knowing way 

As one that knots his necktie for a ball; 

But just as all the neighbours--on the wall-- 

Are drawing a long breath to shout "Hurray!" 

The strangest whim has seized me....After all 

I think I will not hang myself today. 

Poems (1915) "Ballade of Suicide" 

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the 

problem. 

Scandal of Father Brown (1935) "Point of a Pin" 

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only 

one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. 

Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed" 

Hardy went down to botanize in the swamp, while Meredith climbed towards 

the sun. Meredith became, at his best, a sort of daintily dressed Walt 

Whitman: Hardy became a sort of village atheist brooding and blaspheming 

over the village idiot. 

Victorian Age in Literature (1912) ch. 2 

He [Tennyson] could not think up to the height of his own towering style. 

Victorian Age in Literature (1912) ch. 3 

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been 

found difficult; and left untried. 

What's Wrong with the World (1910) pt. 1, ch. 5 

She was maintaining the prime truth of woman, the universal mother: that 

if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. 

What's Wrong with the World (1910) pt. 4, ch. 14 

When fishes flew and forests walked 

And figs grew upon thorn, 

Some moment when the moon was blood 

Then surely I was born. 

With monstrous head and sickening cry 

And ears like errant wings, 

The devil's walking parody 

On all four-footed things. 

Wild Knight and Other Poems (1900) "The Donkey" 

Fools! For I also had my hour; 

One far fierce hour and sweet: 

There was a shout about my ears, 

And palms before my feet.

Wild Knight and Other Poems (1900) "The Donkey" 

But Higgins is a Heathen, 

And to lecture rooms is forced, 

Where his aunts, who are not married, 

Demand to be divorced. 

Wine, Water and Song (1915) "Song of the Strange Ascetic" 

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to 

want it. 

Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) "Paradise of Thieves" 

Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones Dead" to people who 

never knew that Lord Jones was alive. 

Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) "The Purple Wig" 

3.51 Maurice Chevalier 

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1888-1972 

On his seventy-second birthday in 1960, he [Chevalier] was asked what he 

felt about the advancing years. "Considering the alternative," he said, 

"it's not too bad at all." 

Michael Freedland Maurice Chevalier (1981) ch. 20 

3.52 Erskine Childers 

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1870-1922 

The riddle of the sands. 


The [firing] squad took up their positions across the prison yard. "Come 

closer, boys," Childers called out to them. "It will be easier for you." 

Burke Wilkinson Zeal of Convert (1976) ch. 26 

3.53 Charles Chilton 

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1914- 

See Joan Littlewood (12.66) 

3.54 Noam Chomsky 

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1928- 

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action 

arise, human science is at a loss. 

Television interview, 30 Mar. 1978, in Listener 6 Apr. 1978 

The notion "grammatical" cannot be identified with "meaningful" or 

"significant" in any semantic sense. Sentences (1) and (2) are equally 

nonsensical, but...only the former is grammatical. 

(1) Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. 

(2) Furiously sleep ideas green colourless. 

Syntactic Structures (1957) ch. 2

3.55 Dame Agatha Christie 

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1890-1976 

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to 

win a war is as disastrous as to lose one! 

Autobiography (1977) pt. 10 

"This affair must all be unravelled from within." He [Hercule Poirot] 

tapped his forehead. "These little grey cells. It is 'up to them'--as you 

say over here." 

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) ch. 10 

Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it. 

The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) ch. 36 

3.56 Frank E. Churchill 

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1901-1942 

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? 

Title of song (1933; probably written in collaboration with Ann Ronell) 

3.57 Sir Winston Churchill 

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1874-1965 

In defeat unbeatable: in victory unbearable. 

In Edward Marsh Ambrosia and Small Beer (1964) ch. 5 (describing Viscount 

Montgomery) 

After the war one quip which went the rounds of Westminster was attributed 

to Churchill himself. "An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and 

when the door was opened [Clement] Attlee got out." When [John] Colville 

repeated this, and its attribution, to Churchill he obviously did not like 

it. His face set hard, and "after an awful pause" he said: "Mr Attlee is 

an honourable and gallant gentleman, and a faithful colleague who served 

his country well at the time of her greatest need. I should be obliged if 

you would make it clear whenever an occasion arises that I would never 

make such a remark about him, and that I strongly disapprove of anybody 

who does." 

Kenneth Harris Attlee (1982) ch. 16 

Always remember, Clemmie, that I have taken more out of alcohol than 

alcohol has taken out of me. 

In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11 

[Clement Attlee is] a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about. 

In Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books 27 June 1954 

Question: What are the desirable qualifications for any young man who 

wishes to become a politician? 

Mr Churchill: It is the ability to foretell what is going to happen 

tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability 

afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. 

In B. Adler Churchill Wit (1965) p. 4

The British people have taken for themselves this motto--"Business carried 

on as usual during alterations on the map of Europe." They expect the 

navy, on which they have lavished so much care and expense, to make that 

good, and that is what, upon the whole, we are actually achieving at the 

present time. 

Speech at the Guildhall, 9 Nov. 1914, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 3, 

p. 2341 

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt....We shall 

not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock 

of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us 

down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. 

Speech on radio, 9 Feb. 1941, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 6, p. 6350 

The people of London with one voice would say to Hitler: "You have 

committed every crime under the sun....We will have no truce or parley 

with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your 

worst--and we will do our best." 

Speech at County Hall, London, 14 July 1941, in Complete Speeches (1974) 

vol. 6, p. 6451 

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us rather speak of sterner days. 

These are not dark days: these are great days--the greatest days our 

country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been 

allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making 

these days memorable in the history of our race. 

Speech at Harrow School, 29 Oct. 1941, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 6, 

p. 6500 

It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence 

or even with sanity. What kind of a people do they think we are? 

Speech to US Congress, 26 Dec. 1941, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 6, 

p. 6540 

When I warned them [the French Government] that Britain would fight on 

alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his 

divided Cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like 

a chicken." Some chicken! Some neck! 

Speech to Canadian Parliament, 30 Dec. 1941, in Complete Speeches (1974) 

vol. 6, p. 6544 

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into 

babies. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. 

Speech on radio, 21 Mar. 1943, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 7, p. 6761 

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has 

descended across the Continent. 

Speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 5 Mar. 1946, in Complete 

Speeches (1974) vol. 7, p. 7290 

Somebody said, "One never hears of Baldwin nowadays--he might as well be 

dead." "No," said Winston, "not dead. But the candle in that great turnip 

has gone out." 

Harold Nicolson Diary 17 Aug. 1950, in Diaries and Letters (1968) p. 193 

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it 

is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. 

Speech at the Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942, in End of the Beginning

(1943) p. 214 

We mean to hold our own. I have not become the King's First Minister in 

order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. 

Speech in London, 10 Nov. 1942, in End of the Beginning (1943) p. 215 

Once he [Churchill] said to me, "Alfred, if you met Picasso coming down 

the street, would you join with me in kicking his something something 

something?" I said, "Yes, sir, I would." 

Sir Alfred Munnings in speech at Royal Academy, 28 Apr. 1949, in The 

Finish (1952) ch. 22 

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and 

the lash. 

In Sir Peter Gretton Former Naval Person (1968) ch. 1 

A labour contract into which men enter voluntarily for a limited and for a 

brief period, under which they are paid wages which they consider 

adequate, under which they are not bought or sold and from which they can 

obtain relief...on payment of œ17.10s, the cost of their passage, may not 

be a healthy or proper contract, but it cannot in the opinion of His 

Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of 

the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. 

Hansard 22 Feb. 1906, col. 555 

He [Lord Charles Beresford] is one of those orators of whom it was well 

said, "Before they get up, they do not know what they are going to say; 

when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when 

they have sat down, they do not know what they have said." 


The whole map of Europe has been changed. The position of countries has 

been violently altered. The modes of thought of men, the whole outlook on 

affairs, the grouping of parties, all have encountered violent and 

tremendous changes in the deluge of the world, but as the deluge subsides 

and the waters fall short we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and 

Tyrone emerging once again. The integrity of their quarrel is one of the 

few institutions that has been unaltered in the cataclysm which has swept 

the world. 


I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the 

fire. 

Hansard 7 July 1926, col. 2216 (replying to complaints of his bias in 

editing the British Gazette during the General Strike) 

I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's 

circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the 

exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described 

as "The Boneless Wonder." My parents judged that that spectacle would be 

too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited 50 

years to see the boneless wonder [Ramsay Macdonald] sitting on the 

Treasury Bench. 

Hansard 28 Jan. 1931, col. 1021 

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be 

undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for 

fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. 

Hansard 12 Nov. 1936, col. 1107

The utmost he [Neville Chamberlain] has been able to gain for 

Czechoslovakia and in the matters which were in dispute has been that the 

German dictator, instead of snatching his victuals from the table, has 

been content to have them served to him course by course. 

Hansard 5 Oct. 1938, col. 361 

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this 

Government: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." 


You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land 

and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give 

us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, 

lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is 

our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory, victory at all costs, victory 

in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; 

for without victory, there is no survival. 


At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, "Come 

then, let us go forward together with our united strength." 


Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have 

fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious 

apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the 

end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we 

shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we 

shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the 

beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the 

fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never 

surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island 

or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond 

the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the 

struggle, until, in God's good time, the new world, with all its power and 

might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. 

Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796 

What General Weygand called the "Battle of France" is over. I expect that 

the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the 

survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life 

and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury 

and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that 

he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand 

up to him all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move 

forward into broad, sunlit uplands; but if we fail then the whole world, 

including the United States, and all that we have known and cared for, 

will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps 

more prolonged, by the lights of a perverted science. Let us therefore 

brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British 

Commonwealth and its Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still 

say, "This was their finest hour." 


The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed 

throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the 

British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant 

challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of world war by their 

prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so 

much owed by so many to so few.

Hansard 20 Aug. 1940, col. 1166 

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who 

like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. 


We make this wide encircling movement in the Mediterranean, having for its 

primary object the recovery of the command of that vital sea, but also 

having for its object the exposure of the under-belly of the Axis, 

especially Italy, to heavy attack. 

Hansard 11 Nov. 1942, col. 28 (often misquoted as "the soft under-belly 

of the Axis") 

He [President Roosevelt] devised the extraordinary measure of assistance 

called Lend-Lease, which will stand forth as the most unselfish and 

unsordid financial act of any country in all history. 

Hansard 17 Apr. 1945, col. 76 

Unless the right hon. Gentleman [Mr Bevan] changes his policy and methods 

and moves without the slightest delay, he will be as great a curse to this 

country in time of peace, as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war. 


Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world 

of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. 

Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government 

except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. 


I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a 

mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian 

national interest. 

Radio talk, 1 Oct. 1939, in Into Battle (1941) p. 131 

Nous attendons l'invasion promise de longue date. Les poissons aussi. 

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes. 

Radio broadcast to the French people, 21 Oct. 1940, in Into Battle (1941) 

p. 298 

Shortly after returning from his tour of the Near East, Anthony Eden 

submitted a long-winded report to the Prime Minister on his experiences 

and impressions. Churchill, it is told, returned it to his War Minister 

with a note saying: "As far as I can see you have used every clich‚ except 

'God is Love' and 'Please adjust your dress before leaving.'" 

Life 9 Dec. 1940 (when this story was repeated in the Daily Mirror, 

Churchill denied that it was true) 

I wrote my name at the top of the page. I wrote down the number of the 

question "1." After much reflection I put a bracket round it thus "(1)." 

But thereafter I could not think of anything connected with it that was 

either relevant or true....It was from these slender indications of 

scholarship that Mr Welldon drew the conclusion that I was worthy to pass 

into Harrow. It is very much to his credit. 

My Early Life (1930) ch. 2 

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense 

advantage over the cleverer boys. They all went on to learn Latin and 

Greek....But I was taught English....Thus I got into my bones the 

essential structure of the ordinary British sentence--which is a noble

thing....Naturally I am biased in favour of boys learning English. I would 

make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn 

Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat. 


Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have 

never yet been invested. 


So they told me how Mr Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought 

served him right. 


It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. 


To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. 

Speech at White House, 26 June 1954, in New York Times 27 June 1954, p. 1 

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the 

great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. 

At news conference in Washington, 1954, in New York Times 25 Jan. 1965 

(Suppl.) p. 7 

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. 

Speech at Harvard, 6 Sept. 1943, in Onwards to Victory (1944) p. 238 

It is said that Mr Winston Churchill once made this marginal comment 

against a sentence that clumsily avoided a prepositional ending: "This is 

the sort of English up with which I will not put." 

Ernest Gowers Plain Words (1948) ch. 9 

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: 

magnanimity. In peace: goodwill. 

Second World War (1948) vol. 1, epigraph (Sir Edward Marsh in A Number of 

People (1939) p. 152, says that this motto occurred to Churchill shortly 

after the First World War) 

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for 

suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once "The 

Unnecessary War." 

Second World War (1948) vol. 1, p. viii 

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had 

been but a preparation for this hour and this trial. Eleven years in the 

political wilderness had freed me from ordinary Party antagonisms. My 

warnings over the last six years had been so numerous, so detailed, and 

were now so terribly vindicated, that no one could gainsay me. I could not 

be reproached either for making the war or with want of preparation for 

it. I thought I knew a good deal about it all, and I was sure I should not 

fail. Therefore, although impatient for the morning, I slept soundly and 

had no need for cheering dreams. Facts are better than dreams. 

Second World War (1948) vol. 1, p. 526 

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it. 

Letter to Lord Wavell, 26 Nov. 1940, in Second World War (1949) vol. 2, 

ch. 27 

It may almost be said, "Before Alamein we never had a victory. After 

Alamein we never had a defeat."

Second World War (1951) vol. 4, ch. 33 

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And 

the tigers are getting hungry. 

Letter, 11 Nov. 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Cf. the proverb "He 

who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" (see Concise Oxford Dictionary of 

Proverbs under rides) 

You must rank me and my colleagues as strong partisans of national 

compulsory insurance for all classes for all purposes from the cradle to 

the grave. 

Radio broadcast, 21 Mar. 1943, in The Times 22 Mar. 1943 

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said--namely, that I 

inspired the nation....It was the nation and the race dwelling all round 

the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to 

give the roar. I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the 

right place to use his claws. 

Speech at Westminster Hall, 30 Nov. 1954, in The Times 1 Dec. 1954 

Mr Attlee, whom Churchill once playfully described as a "sheep in sheep's 

clothing." 

Lord Home Way the Wind Blows (1976) ch. 6. Cf. Sir Edmund Gosse 

Take away that pudding--it has no theme. 

In Lord Home Way the Wind Blows (1976) ch. 16 

We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm. 

In Violet Bonham-Carter Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965) ch. 1 

Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an 

afternoon. 

World Crisis (1927) pt. 1, ch. 5 

3.58 Count Galeazzo Ciano 

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1903-1944 

La vittoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso. 

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. 

Diary 9 Sept. 1942 (1946) vol. 2, p. 196 

3.59 Brian Clark 

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1932- 

Whose life is it anyway? 


3.60 Kenneth Clark (Baron Clark) 

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1903-1983 

Perrault's fa‡ade [of the Louvre] reflects the triumph of an authoritarian 

state, and of those logical solutions that Colbert, the great 

administrator of the seventeenth century, was imposing on politics,

economics and every department of contemporary life, including, above all, 

the arts. This gives French Classical architecture a certain inhumanity. 

It was the work not of craftsmen, but of wonderfully gifted civil 

servants. 

Civilization (1969) ch. 9 

3.61 Arthur C. Clarke 

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1917- 

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible 

he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is 

very probably wrong. 

In New Yorker 9 Aug. 1969 

3.62 Grant Clarke and Edgar Leslie 

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Grant Clarke 1891-1931 

Edgar Leslie 1885-1976 

He'd have to get under, get out and get under 

And fix up his automobile. 

He'd Have to Get Under--Get Out and Get Under (1913 song; music by 

Maurice Abrahams) 

3.63 Eldridge Cleaver 

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1935- 

What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or 

you're part of the problem. 

Speech in San Francisco, 1968, in R. Scheer Eldridge Cleaver, Post Prison 

Writings and Speeches (1969) p. xxxii 

3.64 John Cleese 

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1939- 

See Graham Chapman (3.47) 

3.65 John Cleese and Connie Booth 

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John Cleese 1939- 

They're Germans. Don't mention the war. 

Fawlty Towers "The Germans" (BBC TV programme, 1975), in Complete Fawlty 

Towers (1988) p. 153 

So Harry says, "You don't like me any more. Why not?" And he says, 

"Because you've got so terribly pretentious." And Harry says, 

"Pretentious? Moi?" 

Fawlty Towers "The Psychiatrist" (BBC TV programme, 1979), in Complete 

Fawlty Towers (1988) p. 190

3.66 Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn 

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1876-1959 

The golf-links lie so near the mill 

That almost every day 

The labouring children can look out 

And watch the men at play. 

New York Tribune 23 Jan. 1914 "For Some Must Watch, While--" 

3.67 Georges Clemenceau 

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1841-1929 

La guerre, c'est une chose trop grave pour la confier … des militaires. 

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. 

Attributed to Clemenceau e.g. in Hampden Jackson Clemenceau and the Third 

Republic (1946) p. 228, but also attributed to Briand and Talleyrand 

Politique int‚rieure, je fais la guerre; politique ext‚rieure, je fais 

toujours la guerre. Je fais toujours la guerre. 

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time 

I wage war. 

Speech to French Chamber of Deputies, 8 Mar. 1918, in Discours de Guerre 

(War Speeches, 1968) p. 172 

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. 

It is easier to make war than to make peace. 

Speech at Verdun, 20 July 1919, in Discours de Paix (Peace Speeches, 1938) 

p. 122 

3.68 Harlan Cleveland 

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1918- 

In 1950 he [Harlan Cleveland] invented the phrase, so thrashed to death in 

later years, "the revolution of rising expectations." 

Arthur Schlesinger Thousand Days (1965) ch. 16 

3.69 Richard Cobb 

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1917- 

In an operation of this kind one would not go for a Proust or a Joyce--not 

that I would know about that, never having read either. 

Speech at Booker Prize awards in London, 18 Oct. 1984, in The Times 

19 Oct. 1984 

3.70 Claud Cockburn 

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1904-

Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead. 

In Time of Trouble (1956) ch. 10 (the words with which Cockburn claims to 

have won a competition at The Times for the dullest headline) 

3.71 Jean Cocteau 

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1889-1963 

Le tact dans l' audace c'est de savoir jusqu'o— on peut aller trop loin. 

Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go too far. 

Le Coq et l'Arlequin (1918) in Le Rappel … l'ordre (Recall to Order, 

1926) p. 2 

Le pire drame pour un poŠte, c'est d'ˆtre admir‚ par malentendu. 

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. 


1926) p. 20 

S'il faut choisir un crucifi‚, la foule sauve toujours Barabbas. 

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save 

Barabbas. 


1926) p. 39 

L'Histoire est un alliage de r‚el et de mensonge. Le r‚el de l'Histoire 

devient un mensonge. L'irr‚el de la fable devient v‚rit‚. 

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History 

becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. 

Journal d'un inconnu (Diary of an Unknown Man, 1953) p. 143 

Vivre est une chute horizontale. 

Life is a horizontal fall. 

Opium (1930) p. 37 

Quand j'ai ‚crit que Victor Hugo ‚tait un fou qui se croyait Victor Hugo, 

je ne plaisantais pas. 

When I wrote that Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo, 

I was not joking. 

Opium (1930) p. 77 

3.72 Lenore Coffee 

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?1897-1984 

What a dump! 

Beyond the Forest (1949 film; line spoken by Bette Davis, entering 

a room) 

3.73 George M. Cohan 

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1878-1942 

It was Cohan who first said to a newspaperman (who wanted some information 

about Broadway Jones in 1912), "I don't care what you say about me, as 

long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name 

right." 

John McCabe George M. Cohan (1973) ch. 13 

Give my regards to Broadway, 

Remember me to Herald Square, 

Tell all the gang at Forty-Second Street 

That I will soon be there. 

Give My Regards to Broadway (1904 song) 

Over there, over there, 

Send the word, send the word over there 

That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming, 

The drums rum-tumming everywhere. 

So prepare, say a prayer, 

Send the word, send the word to beware. 

We'll be over, we're coming over 

And we won't come back till it's over, over there. 

Over There (1917 song) 

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, 

A Yankee Doodle, do or die; 

A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam's, 

Born on the fourth of July. 

I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart, 

She's my Yankee Doodle joy. 

Yankee Doodle came to London, 

Just to ride the ponies; 

I am the Yankee Doodle Boy. 

Yankee Doodle Boy (1904 song) 

3.74 Desmond Coke 

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1879-1931 

His blade struck the water a full second before any other: the lad had 

started well. Nor did he flag as the race wore on: as the others tired, he 

seemed to grow more fresh, until at length, as the boats began to near the 

winning-post, his oar was dipping into the water nearly twice as often as 

any other. 

Sandford of Merton (1903) ch. 12 (often misquoted as "All rowed fast, but 

none so fast as stroke") 

3.75 Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) 

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1873-1954 

Il d‚couvrait...le monde des ‚motions qu'on nomme, … la l‚gŠre, physiques. 

He was discovering...the world of the emotions that are so lightly called 

physical. 

Le Bl‚ en herbe (Ripening Seed, 1923) p. 161 

Quand elle lŠve ses paupiŠres, on dirait qu'elle se d‚shabille.

When she raises her eyelids, it is as if she is undressing. 

Claudine s'en va (Claudine Goes Away, 1931) p. 59 

Ne porte jamais de bijoux artistiques, ‡a d‚considŠre complŠtement une 

femme. 

Don't ever wear artistic jewellery; it wrecks a woman's reputation. 

Gigi (1944) p. 40 

3.76 R. G. Collingwood 

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1889-1943 

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in 

that work does what he wants to do. 

Speculum Mentis (1924) p. 25 

3.77 Charles Collins and Fred W. Leigh 

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My old man said, "Follow the van, 

Don't dilly-dally on the way!" 

Off went the cart with the home packed in it, 

I walked behind with my old cock linnet. 

But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, 

Lost the van and don't know where to roam. 

You can't trust the "specials" like the old time "coppers" 

When you can't find your way home. 

Don't Dilly-Dally on the Way (1919 song; made famous by Marie Lloyd) 

3.78 Charles Collins and Fred Murray 

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Boiled beef and carrots. 

Title of song (1910; made famous by Harry Champion) 

3.79 Charles Collins, E. A. Sheppard, and Fred Terry 

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Any old iron, any old iron, 

Any any old old iron? 

You look neat 

Talk about a treat, 

You look dapper from your napper to your feet. 

Dressed in style, brand new tile, 

And your father's old green tie on, 

But I wouldn't give you tuppence for your old watch chain; 

Old iron, old iron? 

Any Old Iron (1911 song; made famous by Harry Champion; the second line 

is often sung as "Any any any old iron?") 

3.80 John Churton Collins 

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1848-1908

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. 

In L. C. Collins Life of John Churton Collins (1912) p. 316 

3.81 Michael Collins 

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1890-1922 

Think--what I have got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these 

past seven hundred years. Will anyone be satisfied at the bargain? Will 

anyone? I tell you this--early this morning I signed my death warrant. 

I thought at the time how odd, how ridiculous--a bullet may just as well 

have done the job five years ago. 

Letter, 6 Dec. 1921, in T. R. Dwyer Michael Collins and the Treaty (1981) 

ch. 4 

3.82 Betty Comden and Adolph Green 

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Betty Comden 1919- 

Adolph Green 1915- 

New York, New York,--a helluva town, 

The Bronx is up but the Battery's down, 

And people ride in a hole in the ground: 

New York, New York,--It's a helluva town. 

New York, New York (1945 song; music by Leonard Bernstein) 

The party's over. 

Title of song (1956; music by Jule Styne) 

3.83 Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett 

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1884-1969 

"Well, of course, people are only human," said Dudley to his brother, as 

they walked to the house behind the women. "But it really does not seem 

much for them to be." 

A Family and a Fortune (1939) ch. 2 

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not 

always the best. 

The Mighty and their Fall (1961) ch. 7 

There is more difference within the sexes than between them. 

Mother and Son (1955) ch. 10 

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have 

no plots. 

In R. Lehmann et al. Orion I (1945) p. 25 

3.84 Billy Connolly 

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1942- 

Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair

kit. 

In Duncan Campbell Billy Connolly (1976) p. 92 

3.85 Cyril Connolly 

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1903-1974 

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; 

journalism what will be read once. 

Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 3 

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so 

those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. 


Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. 


There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. 


All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total 

dependence on the appreciation of others. 


I have called this style the Mandarin style, since it is beloved by 

literary pundits, by those who would make the written word as unlike as 

possible to the spoken one. It is the style of those writers whose 

tendency is to make their language convey more than they mean or more than 

they feel, it is the style of most artists and all humbugs. 


In the eighteenth century he [Alec Douglas-Home] would have become Prime 

Minister before he was thirty; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible 

for the struggle of life. 


Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be 

called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. 


It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist 

will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his 

despair. 

Horizon Dec. 1949--Jan. 1950, p. 362 

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the 

public and have no self. 

New Statesman 25 Feb. 1933 

Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up--execute him, 

expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your 

children. 


He [George Orwell] could not blow his nose without moralising on the state 

of the handkerchief industry. 

Sunday Times 29 Sept. 1968

The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the only function of a 

writer is to produce a masterpiece. No other task is of any consequence. 

Unquiet Grave (1944) pt. 1 

There is no fury like a woman looking for a new lover. 

Unquiet Grave (1944) pt. 1. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 

160:15 

In the sex-war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness 

of the female. 


Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to 

walk. 


The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. Everything 

over-ripens in the same way. The disasters of the world are due to its 

inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. 


Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out. 

Unquiet Grave (1944) pt. 2. See also George Orwell (15.24) 

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. 


We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self. 


Peeling off the kilometres to the tune of "Blue Skies," sizzling down the 

long black liquid reaches of Nationale Sept, the plane trees going 

sha-sha-sha through the open window, the windscreen yellowing with crushed 

midges, she with the Michelin beside me, a handkerchief binding her hair. 


Our memories are card-indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by 

authorities whom we do not control. 


3.86 James Connolly 

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1868-1916 

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the 

slave of that slave. 

Re-conquest of Ireland (1915) p. 38 

3.87 Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski) 

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1857-1924 

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom. 

Arrow of Gold (author's note, 1920, to 1924 Uniform Edition) p. viii 

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from 

those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than 

ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

Heart of Darkness ch. 1, in Youth (1902) 

We live, as we dream--alone. 


Exterminate all the brutes! 


He [Kurtz] cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision,--he cried out 

twice, a cry that was no more than a breath--"The horror! The horror!" 


Mistah Kurtz--he dead. 


A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. 

If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to 

do, he drowns--nicht wahr?...No! I tell you! The way is to the 

destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands 

and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up....In the 

destructive element immerse....That was the way. To follow the dream, and 

again to follow the dream--and so--ewig--usque ad finem. 

Lord Jim (1900) ch. 20 

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. 

Lord Jim (1900) ch. 34 

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should 

carry its justification in every line. 

The Nigger of the Narcissus, author's note, in New Review Dec. 1897 

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of 

flattering illusions. 

Nostromo (1904) pt. 1, ch. 6 

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. 

Outcast of the Islands (1896) pt. 3, ch. 2 

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. 

Secret Agent (1907) ch. 4 

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries 

or credulities of mankind. 

Some Reminiscences (1912; in USA entitled "A Personal Record") p. 19 

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the 

unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement--but it passes away 

from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. 

Under Western Eyes (1911) pt. 2, ch. 3 

A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are 

quite capable of every wickedness. 

Under Western Eyes (1911) pt. 2, ch. 4 

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any 

more--the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, 

and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to 

love, to vain effort--to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the 

heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every 

year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires--and expires, too

soon, too soon--before life itself. 

Youth (1902) p. 41 

3.88 Shirley Conran 

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1932- 

Our motto: Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. 

Superwoman (1975) p. 15 

First things first, second things never. 

Superwoman (1975) p. 157 

3.89 A. J. Cook 

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1885-1931 

Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day. 

Speech at York, 3 Apr. 1926, in The Times 5 Apr. 1926 (referring to 

miners' slogan) 

3.90 Dan Cook 

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The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. 

In Washington Post 3 June 1978 

3.91 Peter Cook 

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1937- 

I have recently been travelling round the world--on your behalf, and at 

your expense--visiting some of the chaps with whom I hope to be shaping 

your future. I went first to Germany, and there I spoke with the German 

Foreign Minister, Herr...Herr and there, and we exchanged many frank words 

in our respective languages. 

Beyond the Fringe (1961 revue) "TVPM," in Roger Wilmut Complete Beyond 

the Fringe (1987) p. 54 

Yes, I could have been a judge but I never had the Latin, never had the 

Latin for the judging, I just never had sufficient of it to get through 

the rigorous judging exams. They're noted for their rigour. People come 

staggering out saying, "My God, what a rigorous exam"--and so I became a 

miner instead. 

Beyond the Fringe (1961 revue) "Sitting on the Bench," in Roger Wilmut 

Complete Beyond the Fringe (1987) p. 97 

3.92 Calvin Coolidge 

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1872-1933 

Shortly after Mr Coolidge had gone to the White House, Mrs Coolidge was 

unable to go to church with him one Sunday. At lunch she asked what the 

sermon was about. "Sins," he said. "Well, what did he say about sin?" "He 

was against it."

John H. McKee Coolidge: Wit and Wisdom (1933) p. 4 (but Edward C. 

Lathem's Meet Calvin Coolidge (1960) p. 151 quotes Mrs Coolidge as saying 

that this was one of "the stories which might reasonably be attributed to 

him [Coolidge] but which did not originate with him") 

Mr Coolidge...interrupted a discussion of cancellation of the war debts 

with: "Well, they hired the money, didn't they?" 

John H. McKee Coolidge: Wit and Wisdom (1933) p. 118 

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, 

anywhere, any time. 

Telegram to Samuel Gompers, 14 Sept. 1919, in Have Faith in Massachusetts 

(1919) p. 223 

Civilization and profits go hand in hand. 

Speech in New York, 27 Nov. 1920, in New York Times 28 Nov. 1920, p. 20 

The chief business of the American people is business. 

Speech in Washington, 17 Jan. 1925, in New York Times 18 Jan. 1925, p. 19 

I do not choose to run for President in nineteen twenty-eight. 

Statement issued at Rapid City, South Dakota, 2 Aug. 1927, in New York 

Times 3 Aug. 1927, p. 1 

3.93 Ananda Coomaraswamy 

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1877-1947 

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind 

of artist. 

Transformation of Nature in Art (1934) ch. 2 

3.94 Alfred Duff Cooper (Viscount Norwich) 

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1890-1954 

I really did enjoy Belvoir you know....You must I think have enjoyed it 

too, with your two stout lovers frowning at one another across the hearth 

rug, while your small, but perfectly formed one kept the party in a roar. 

Letter to Lady Diana Manners, Oct. 1914, in Artemis Cooper Durable Fire 

(1983) p. 17 

3.95 Tommy Cooper 

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1921-1984 

Just like that! 

Title of autobiography (1975), from his catch-phrase. 

3.96 Wendy Cope 

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1945- 

I used to think all poets were Byronic-- 

Mad, bad and dangerous to know. 

And then I met a few. Yes it's ironic--

I used to think all poets were Byronic. 

They're mostly wicked as a ginless tonic 

And wild as pension plans. 

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986) "Triolet." Cf. Oxford Dictonary of 


It's nice to meet serious people 

And hear them explain their views: 

Your concern for the rights of women 

Is especially welcome news. 

I'm sure you'd never exploit one; 

I expect you'd rather be dead; 

I'm thoroughly convinced of it-- 

Now can we go to bed? 

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986) "From June to December" 

There are so many kinds of awful men-- 

One can't avoid them all. She often said 

She'd never make the same mistake again: 

She always made a new mistake instead. 

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986) "Rondeau Redoubl‚" 

It was a dream I had last week 

And some kind of record seemed vital. 

I knew it wouldn't be much of a poem 

But I love the title. 

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986) title-poem 

3.97 Aaron Copland 

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1900-1990 

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a 

meaning to music?" My answer to that would be, "Yes." And "Can you state 

in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No." 

What to Listen for in Music (1939) ch. 2 

3.98 Bernard Cornfeld 

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1927- 

Do you sincerely want to be rich? 

Question often asked by Cornfeld of salesmen in the 1960s, in Charles Raw 

et al. Do You Sincerely Want to be Rich? (1971) p. 67 

3.99 Frances Cornford 

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1886-1960 

Whoso maintains that I am humbled now 

(Who wait the Awful Day) is still a liar; 

I hope to meet my Maker brow to brow 

And find my own the higher. 

Collected Poems (1954) "Epitaph for a Reviewer" 

A young Apollo, golden-haired, 

Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,

Magnificently unprepared 

For the long littleness of life. 

Poems (1910) "Youth" 

O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, 

Missing so much and so much? 

O fat white woman whom nobody loves, 

Why do you walk through the fields in gloves, 

When the grass is soft as the breast of doves 

And shivering-sweet to the touch? 

O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, 

Missing so much and so much? 

Poems (1910) "To a Fat Lady seen from the Train." Cf. G. K. Chesterton 

51:8 

How long ago Hector took off his plume, 

Not wanting that his little son should cry, 

Then kissed his sad Andromache goodbye-- 

And now we three in Euston waiting-room. 

Travelling Home (1948) "Parting in Wartime" 

3.100 Francis Macdonald Cornford 

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1874-1943 

If you persist to the threshold of old age--your fiftieth year, let us 

say--you will be a powerful person yourself, with an accretion of 

peculiarities which other people will have to study in order to square 

you. The toes you will have trodden on by this time will be as sands on 

the sea-shore; and from far below you will mount the roar of a ruthless 

multitude of young men in a hurry. You may perhaps grow to be aware what 

they are in a hurry to do. They are in a hurry to get you out of the way. 

Microcosmographia Academica (1908) p. 2 

Every public action, which is not customary, either is wrong, or, if it is 

right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be 

done for the first time. 

Microcosmographia Academica (1908) p. 28 

3.101 Baron Pierre de Coubertin 

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1863-1937 

L'important dans la vie ce n'est point le triomphe mais le combat; 

l'essentiel ce n'est pas d'avoir vaincu mais de s'ˆtre bien battu. 

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the 

essential thing is not to have won but to be well beaten. 

Speech at government banquet in London, 24 July 1908, in T. A. Cook Fourth 

Olympiad (1909) p. 793 

3.102 mile Cou‚ 

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1857-1926 

Tous les jours, … tous points de vue, je vais de mieux en mieux.

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. 

De la suggestion et de ses applications (On Suggestion and its 

Applications, 1915) p. 17 (Cou‚ advised his patients to repeat this phrase 

15 to 20 times, morning and evening) 

3.103 No‰l Coward 

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1899-1973 

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange 

Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day 

this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and 

greatness and peace again. 

Cavalcade (1932) act 3 

Dance, dance, dance, little lady! 

Dance, dance, dance, little lady! 

Leave tomorrow behind. 

Dance, Little Lady (1928 song) 

Don't let's be beastly to the Germans 

When our Victory is ultimately won. 

Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans (1943 song) 

I believe that since my life began 

The most I've had is just 

A talent to amuse. 

Heigho, if love were all! 

If Love Were All (1929 song) 

I'll see you again, 

Whenever Spring breaks through again. 

I'll See You Again (1929 song) 

Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?) 

Letter to T. E. Lawrence, 25 Aug. 1930, in D. Garnett (ed.) Letters of T. 

E. Lawrence (1938) p. 696 

London Pride has been handed down to us. 

London Pride is a flower that's free. 

London Pride means our own dear town to us, 

And our pride it for ever will be. 

London Pride (1941 song) 

Mad about the boy, 

It's pretty funny but I'm mad about the boy. 

He has a gay appeal 

That makes me feel 

There may be something sad about the boy. 

Mad about the Boy (1932 song) 

Mad dogs and Englishmen 

Go out in the midday sun. 

The Japanese don't care to, 

The Chinese wouldn't dare to, 

The Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, 

But Englishmen detest a siesta. 

In the Philippines, there are lovely screens 

To protect you from the glare;

In the Malay states, they have hats like plates 

Which the Britishers won't wear. 

At twelve noon, the natives swoon, 

And no further work is done; 

But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun. 

Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1931 song) 

Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington, 

Don't put your daughter on the stage. 

Mrs Worthington (1935 song) 

Poor little rich girl 

You're a bewitched girl, 

Better beware! 

Poor Little Rich Girl (1925 song) 

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. 

Private Lives (1930) act 1 (in a gramophone recording also made in 1930, 

Gertrude Lawrence spoke the line as "Strange how potent cheap music is") 

Amanda: I've been brought up to believe that it's beyond the pale, for 

a man to strike a woman. 

Elyot: A very poor tradition. Certain women should be struck regularly, 

like gongs. 

Private Lives (1930) act 3 

Someday I'll find you, 

Moonlight behind you, 

True to the dream I am dreaming. 

Someday I'll Find You (1930 song) 

Dear Mrs A., 

Hooray, hooray, 

At last you are deflowered. 

On this as every other day 

I love you--Noel Coward. 

Telegram to Gertrude Lawrence, 5 July 1940 (the day after her wedding), in 

Gertrude Lawrence A Star Danced (1945) p. 201 

The Stately Homes of England, 

How beautiful they stand, 

To prove the upper classes 

Have still the upper hand; 

Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt 

And frequently mortgaged to the hilt 

Is inclined to take the gilt 

Off the gingerbread, 

And certainly damps the fun 

Of the eldest son. 

The Stately Homes of England (1938 song). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of 


Tho' the pipes that supply the bathroom burst 

And the lavatory makes you fear the worst, 

It was used by Charles the First 

Quite informally, 

And later by George the Fourth 

On a journey North. 

The Stately Homes of England (1938 song)

The Stately Homes of England, 

Tho' rather in the lurch, 

Provide a lot of chances 

For Psychical Research-- 

There's the ghost of a crazy younger son 

Who murdered, in thirteen fifty-one, 

An extremely rowdy Nun 

Who resented it, 

And people who come to call 

Meet her in the hall. 

The Stately Homes of England (1938 song) 

3.104 Hart Crane 

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1899-1932 

Cowslip and shad-blow, flaked like tethered foam 

Around bared teeth of stallions, bloomed that spring 

When first I read thy lines, rife as the loam 

Of prairies, yet like breakers cliffward leaping! 

...My hand 

in yours, 

Walt Whitman-so-- 

The Bridge (1930) pt. 4 

O Sleepless as the river under thee, 

Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, 

Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend 

And of the curveship lend a myth to God. 

Dial June 1927, p. 490 "To Brooklyn Bridge" 

You who desired so much--in vain to ask-- 

Yet fed your hunger like an endless task, 

Dared dignify the labor, bless the quest-- 

Achieved that stillness ultimately best, 

Being, of all, least sought for: Emily, hear! 

Nation 29 June 1927, p. 718 "To Emily Dickinson" 

3.105 James Creelman and Ruth Rose 

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James Creelman 1901-1941 

Oh no, it wasn't the aeroplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast. 

King Kong (1933 film; final words) 

3.106 Bishop Mandell Creighton 

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1843-1901 

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. 

In Louise Creighton Life (1904) vol. 2, p. 503 

3.107 Quentin Crisp 

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1908- 

There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years 

the dirt doesn't get any worse. 

Naked Civil Servant (1968) ch. 15 

I became one of the stately homos of England. 


An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment 

missing. 


3.108 Julian Critchley 

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1930- 

The only safe pleasure for a parliamentarian is a bag of boiled sweets. 

Listener 10 June 1982 

She [Margaret Thatcher] has been beastly to the Bank of England, has 

demanded that the BBC "set its house in order" and tends to believe the 

worst of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She cannot see an 

institution without hitting it with her handbag. 

The Times 21 June 1982 

3.109 Richmal Crompton (Richmal Crompton Lamburn) 

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1890-1969 

"If anyone trith to hang me," said Violet Elizabeth complacently, "I'll 

thcream and thcream and thcream till I'm thick. I can." 

Still--William (1925) ch. 8 

3.110 Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby) 

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1903-1977 

Half joking, he [Crosby] asked that his epitaph read, "He was an average 

guy who could carry a tune." 

Newsweek 24 Oct. 1977, p. 102 

3.111 Bing Crosby, Roy Turk, and Fred Ahlert 

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Bing Crosby 1903-1977 

Roy Turk 1892-1934 

Fred Ahlert 1892-1933 

Where the blue of the night 

Meets the gold of the day, 

Someone waits for me. 

Where the Blue of the Night (1931 song) 

3.112 Richard Crossman

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1907-1974 

The Civil Service is profoundly deferential--"Yes, Minister! No, Minister! 

If you wish it, Minister!" 

Diary, 22 Oct. 1964, in Diaries of a Cabinet Minister (1975) vol. 1, p. 21 

3.113 Aleister Crowley 

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1875-1947 

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 

Book of the Law (1909) l. 40. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 

403:28 

3.114 Leslie Crowther 

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1933- 

Come on down! 

Catch-phrase in "The Price is Right," ITV programme, 1984 onwards. 

3.115 Robert Crumb 

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1943- 

Keep on truckin'. 

Catch-phrase used in cartoons from circa 1972 

3.116 Bruce Frederick Cummings 

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See W. N. P. Barbellion (2.14) 

3.117 e. e. cummings 

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1894-1962 

anyone lived in a pretty how town 

(with up so floating many bells down) 

spring summer autumn winter 

he sang his didn't he danced his did. 

50 Poems (1949) no. 29 

Humanity i love you because 

when you're hard up you pawn your 

intelligence to buy a drink. 

XLI Poems (1925) "La Guerre," no. 2 

"next to of course god america i 

love you land of the pilgrims" and so forth oh 

say can you see by the dawn's early my 

country 'tis of centuries come and go 

and are no more what of it we should worry

in every language even deafanddumb 

thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry 

by jingo by gee by gosh by gum 

why talk of beauty what could be more beautiful 

than these heroic happy dead 

who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter 

they did not stop to think they died instead 

then shall the voices of liberty be mute? 

He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water. 

is 5 (1926) p. 62 

Buffalo Bill's 

defunct 

who used to 

ride a watersmooth-silver 

stallion 

and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat 

Jesus 

he was a handsome man 

and what i want to know is 

how do you like your blueeyed boy 

Mister Death. 

Tulips and Chimneys (1923) "Portraits" no. 8 

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls 

are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds. 

Tulips and Chimneys (1923) "Sonnets-Realities" no. 1 

(i do not know what it is about you that closes 

and opens; only something in me understands 

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all noses) 

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands. 

W (1931) "somewhere I have never travelled" 

a politician is an arse upon 

which everyone has sat except a man. 

1 x 1 (1944) no. 10 

pity this busy monster, manunkind, 

not. Progress is a comfortable disease. 

1 x 1 (1944) no. 14 

We doctors know 

a hopeless case if--listen: there's a hell 

of a good universe next door; let's go. 

1 x 1 (1944) no. 14 

3.118 William Thomas Cummings 

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1903-1945 

There are no atheists in the foxholes. 

In Carlos P. Romulo I Saw the Fall of the Philippines (1943) ch. 15 

3.119 Will Cuppy 

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1884-1949 

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole 

purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for. 

How to Become Extinct (1941) p. 163 

3.120 Edwina Currie 

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1946- 

Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch 

Aids. My message to the businessmen of this country when they go abroad 

on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them 

to stop them catching Aids--and that is the wife. 

Speech at Runcorn, 12 Feb. 1987, in Guardian 13 Feb. 1987 

We have problems here of high smoking and alcoholism. Some of these 

problems are things we can tackle by impressing on people the need to look 

after themselves better. That is something which is taken more seriously 

down South....I honestly don't think the problem has anything to do with 

poverty....The problem very often for people is, I think, just ignorance 

and failing to realise that they do have some control over their lives. 

Speech at Newcastle upon Tyne, 23 Sept. 1986, in Guardian 24 Sept. 1986 

3.121 Michael Curtiz 

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1888-1962 

Bring on the empty horses! 

In David Niven Bring on the Empty Horses (1975) ch. 6 (said while Curtiz 

was directing the 1936 film, The Charge of the Light Brigade) 

3.122 Lord Curzon (George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) 

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1859-1925 

Not even a public figure. A man of no experience. And of the utmost 

insignificance. 

In Harold Nicolson Curzon: the Last Phase (1934) ch. 12 (said of Stanley 

Baldwin on his being appointed Prime Minister in 1923) 

The Domestic Bursar of Balliol (according to his own story) sent Curzon 

a specimen menu [for a luncheon for Queen Mary in 1921], beginning with 

soup. The menu came back with one sentence written across the corner in 

Curzon's large and old-fashioned hand: "Gentlemen do not take soup at 

luncheon." 

E. L. Woodward Short Journey (1942) ch. 7 

Dear me, I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins. 

In K. Rose Superior Person (1969) ch. 12 (words supposedly said by Curzon 

when watching troops bathing during the First World War) 

4.0 D 

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4.1 Paul Daniels 

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1938- 

You're going to like this...not a lot...but you'll like it! 

Catch-phrase used in his conjuring act, especially on television from 1981 

onwards 

4.2 Charles Brace Darrow 

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1889-1967 

Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect œ200. 

Instructions on "Community Chest" card in the game "Monopoly," invented by 

Darrow in 1931 

4.3 Clarence Darrow 

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1857-1938 

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm 

beginning to believe it. 

In Irving Stone Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1941) ch. 6 

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an 

agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that 

is all that agnosticism means. 

Speech at trial of John Thomas Scopes, 15 July 1925, in The World's Most 

Famous Court Trial (1925) ch. 4 

4.4 Sir Francis Darwin 

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1848-1925 

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the 

man to whom the idea first occurs. 

Eugenics Review Apr. 1914, "Francis Galton" 

4.5 Jules Dassin 

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1911- 

Never on Sunday. 


4.6 Worton David and Lawrence Wright 

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Not tonight, Josephine. 

Title of song (1915; popularized by Florrie Forde) 

4.7 Jack Davies and Ken Annakin 

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Those magnificent men in their flying machines, or How I flew from London 

to Paris in 25 hours and 11 minutes. 


4.8 W. H. Davies 

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1871-1940 

A rainbow and a cuckoo's song 

May never come together again; 

May never come 

This side the tomb. 

Bird of Paradise (1914) "A Great Time" 

And hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and long-- 

The simple bird that thinks two notes a song. 

Child Lovers (1916) "April's Charms" 

Girls scream, 

Boys shout; 

Dogs bark, 

School's out. 

Complete Poems (1963) "School's Out" 

It was the Rainbow gave thee birth, 

And left thee all her lovely hues. 

Farewell to Poesy (1910) "Kingfisher" 

Sweet Stay-at-Home, sweet Well-content, 

Thou knowest of no strange continent: 

Thou hast not felt thy bosom keep 

A gentle motion with the deep; 

Thou hast not sailed in Indian Seas, 

Where scent comes forth in every breeze. 

Foliage (1913) "Sweet Stay-At-Home" 

What is this life if, full of care, 

We have no time to stand and stare. 

Songs of Joy (1911) "Leisure" 

4.9 Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis) 

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1908-1989 

See Lenore Coffee (3.72), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (13.52), and Olive Higgins 

Prouty (16.66) 

4.10 Lord Dawson of Penn (Bertrand Edward Dawson, Viscount Dawson of Penn) 

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1864-1945 

The King's life is moving peacefully towards its close. 

Bulletin on George V, 20 Jan. 1936, in History Today Dec. 1986, p. 28 

4.11 C. Day-Lewis 

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1904-1972 

Do not expect again a phoenix hour, 

The triple-towered sky, the dove complaining, 

Sudden the rain of gold and heart's first ease 

Traced under trees by the eldritch light of sundown. 

Collected Poems, 1929-33 (1935) "From Feathers to Iron" 

Hurry! We burn 

For Rome so near us, for the phoenix moment 

When we have thrown off this traveller's trance, 

And mother-naked and ageless-ancient 

Wake in her warm nest of renaissance. 

Italian Visit (1953) "Flight to Italy" 

Tempt me no more; for I 

Have known the lightning's hour, 

The poet's inward pride, 

The certainty of power. 

Magnetic Mountain (1933) pt. 3, no. 24 

You that love England, who have an ear for her music, 

The slow movement of clouds in benediction, 

Clear arias of light thrilling over her uplands, 

Over the chords of summer sustained peacefully. 

Magnetic Mountain (1933) pt. 4, no. 32 

It is the logic of our times, 

No subject for immortal verse-- 

That we who lived by honest dreams 

Defend the bad against the worse. 

Word over All (1943) "Where are the War Poets?" 

4.12 Simone de Beauvoir 

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1908-1986 

On ne naŒt pas femme: on le devient. Aucun destin biologique, psychique, 

‚conomique ne d‚finit la figure que revˆt au sein de la soci‚t‚ la femelle 

humaine. 

One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman. No biological, psychological 

or economic destiny can determine how the human female will appear in 

society. 

Le deuxiŠme sexe (The Second Sex, 1949) vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 1 

4.13 Edward de Bono 

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1933- 

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our 

expectations. 


4.14 Eugene Victor Debs 

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1855-1926 

I said then, I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; 

while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in 

prison, I am not free. 

Speech at trial in Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918, in Liberator Nov. 1918, 

p. 12 

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, 

as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right. 

Speech at Federal Court, Cleveland, Ohio, 11 Sept. 1918, in Speeches 

(1928) p. 66 

4.15 Edgar Degas 

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1834-1917 

L'art, c'est le vice. On ne l'‚pouse pas l‚gitimement, on le viole. 

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it. 

In Paul Lafond Degas (1918) p. 140 

4.16 Charles de Gaulle 

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1890-1970 

Les trait‚s, voyez-vous, sont comme les jeunes filles et comme les roses: 

‡a dure ce que ‡a dure. 

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last. 

Speech at Elys‚e Palace, 2 July 1963, in Andr‚ Passeron De Gaulle parle 

1962-6 (1966) p. 340 

Vive Le Qu‚bec Libre. 

Long Live Free Quebec. 

Speech in Montreal, 24 July 1967, in Discours et messages (1970) p. 192 

La France a perdu une bataille! Mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre! 

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! 

Proclamation, 18 June 1940, in Discours, messages et d‚clarations du 

G‚n‚ral de Gaulle (1941) 

Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six 

vari‚t‚s de fromage? 

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? 

In Ernest Mignon Les Mots du G‚n‚ral (1962) p. 57 

Comme un homme politique ne croit jamais ce qu'il dit, il est tout ‚tonn‚ 

quand il est cru sur parole. 

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to 

be taken at his word. 

In Ernest Mignon Les Mots du G‚n‚ral (1962) p. 67 

I reviewed a book of his after the war. I said, "General de Gaulle is

a very good soldier and a very bad politician." So he wrote back to me and 

said, "I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious 

a matter to be left to the politicians." 

Clement Attlee Prime Minister Remembers (1961) ch. 4 

4.17 J. de Knight (James E. Myers) and M. Freedman 

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J. de Knight 1919- 

M. Freedman 1893-1962 

(We're gonna) rock around the clock. 


4.18 Walter de la Mare 

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1873-1956 

Oh, no man knows 

Through what wild centuries 

Roves back the rose. 

The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "All That's Past" 

Softly along the road of evening, 

In a twilight dim with rose, 

Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew, 

Old Nod, the shepherd, goes. 

The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "Nod" 

He is crazed with the spell of far Arabia, 

They have stolen his wits away. 

The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "Arabia" 

"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, 

Knocking on the moonlit door; 

And his horse in the silence champed the grasses 

Of the forest's ferny floor. 

The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "The Listeners" 

"Tell them I came, and no one answered, 

That I kept my word," he said. 

The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "The Listeners" 

Here lies a most beautiful lady, 

Light of step and heart was she; 

I think she was the most beautiful lady 

That ever was in the West Country. 

But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; 

However rare--rare it be; 

And when I crumble, who will remember 

This lady of the West Country? 

The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "Epitaph" 

A face peered. All the grey night 

In chaos of vacancy shone; 

Nought but vast Sorrow was there-- 

The sweet cheat gone. 

Motley and Other Poems (1918) "The Ghost"

Look thy last on all things lovely, 

Every hour. Let no night 

Seal thy sense in deathly slumber 

Till to delight 

Thou have paid thy utmost blessing; 

Since that all things thou wouldst praise 

Beauty took from those who loved them 

In other days. 

Motley and Other Poems (1918) "Fare Well" 

Ann, Ann! 

Come! quick as you can! 

There's a fish that talks 

In the frying-pan. 

Peacock Pie (1913) "Alas, Alack" 

Three jolly gentlemen, 

In coats of red, 

Rode their horses 

Up to bed. 

Peacock Pie (1913) "The Huntsmen" 

It's a very odd thing-- 

As odd as can be-- 

That whatever Miss T eats 

Turns into Miss T. 

Peacock Pie (1913) "Miss T" 

Three jolly Farmers 

Once bet a pound 

Each dance the others would 

Off the ground. 

Peacock Pie (1913) "Off the Ground" 

Slowly, silently, now the moon 

Walks the night in her silver shoon. 

Peacock Pie (1913) "Silver" 

What is the world, O soldiers? 

It is I: 

I, this incessant snow, 

This northern sky; 

Soldiers, this solitude 

Through which we go 

Is I. 

Poems (1906) "Napoleon" 

Hi! handsome hunting man 

Fire your little gun. 

Bang! Now the animal 

Is dead and dumb and done. 

Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, 

Eat or sleep or drink again, Oh, what fun! 

Poems for Children (1930) "Hi!" 

"Holiday tasks always remind me, my dear, of the young lady who wanted 

to go out to swim: 

Mother may I go out to swim? 

Yes, my darling daughter.

Fold your clothes up neat and trim, 

And don't go near the water." 

"The rhyme I know," said Laetitia, "is, Hang your clothes on a hickory 

limb." 

"That's all very well," said her uncle, "but just you show me one!" 

The Scarecrow (1945) p. 11. Cf. Anonymous 7:25 

4.19 Shelagh Delaney 

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1939- 

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old. 

A Taste of Honey (1959) act 1, sc. 2 

4.20 Jack Dempsey 

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1895-1983 

Honey, I just forgot to duck. 

Comment to his wife Estelle after losing his World Heavyweight title, 

23 Sept. 1926, in J. and B. P. Dempsey Dempsey (1977) p. 202 (after 

someone tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981, Reagan told his wife: 

"Honey, I forgot to duck") 

4.21 Nigel Dennis 

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1912- 

I am a well-to-do, revered and powerful figure. That Establishment which 

we call England has taken me in: I am become her Fortieth Article. I sit 

upon her Boards, I dominate her stage, her museums, her dances and her 

costumes; I have an honoured voice in her elected House. To her--and her 

alone--I bend the knee, and in return for my homage she is gently blind to 

my small failings, asking only that I indulge them privately. 

Cards of Identity (1955) pt. 2, p. 230 

4.22 Buddy De Sylva (George Gard De Sylva) and Lew Brown 

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Buddy De Sylva 1895-1950 

Lew Brown 1893-1958 

The moon belongs to everyone, 

The best things in life are free, 

The stars belong to everyone, 

They gleam there for you and me. 

The Best Things in Life are Free (1927 song; music by Ray Henderson) 

4.23 Peter De Vries 

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1910- 

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. 

Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we 

were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

Comfort me with Apples (1956) ch. 15 

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order 

to save us. 

Mackerel Plaza (1958) ch. 1 

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves 

arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that 

children produce adults. 

Tunnel of Love (1954) ch. 8 

4.24 Lord Dewar 

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1864-1930 

Lord Dewar...made the famous epigram about there being only two classes of 

pedestrians in these days of reckless motor traffic--the quick, and the 

dead. 

George Robey Looking Back on Life (1933) ch. 28 

4.25 Sergei Diaghilev 

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1872-1929 

tonne-moi. 

Astonish me. 

In Journals of Jean Cocteau (1957) ch. 1 

4.26 Paul Dickson 

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1939- 

Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the 

tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train. 

Washingtonian Nov. 1978. Cf. Robert Lowell 139:21 

4.27 Joan Didion 

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1934- 

That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody 

out. 

Slouching towards Bethlehem (1968) p. xvi 

4.28 Howard Dietz 

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Ars gratia artis. 

Art for art's sake. 

Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studios: see Bosley Crowthier The Lion's 

Share (1957) p. 64 

4.29 William Dillon

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I want a girl (just like the girl that married dear old dad). 

Title of song (1911; music by Harry von Tilzer) 

4.30 Ernest Dimnet 

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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but 

the most surely, on the soul. 

What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12 

4.31 Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) 

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1885-1962 

Out of Africa. 

English title of her novel Den Afrikanske Farm (1937). Cf. Pliny the 

Elder's Historia Naturalis bk. 8, sec. 6: Semper aliquid novi Africam 

adferre. Always bringing something new out of Africa. 

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, 

ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of 

Shiraz into urine? 

Seven Gothic Tales (1934) p. 275 

4.32 Mort Dixon 

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1892-1956 

Bye bye blackbird. 

Title of song (1926; music by Ray Henderson) 

I'm looking over a four leaf clover 

That I overlooked before. 

I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover (1927 song; music by Harry Woods) 

4.33 Milovan Djilas 

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1911- 

The Party line is that there is no Party line. 

Comment on reforms of Yugoslavian Communist Party, Nov. 1952, in Fitzroy 

Maclean Disputed Barricade (1957) caption facing p. 416 

4.34 Austin Dobson (Henry Austin Dobson) 

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1840-1921 

Fame is a food that dead men eat,-- 

I have no stomach for such meat. 

Century Nov. 1906, "Fame is a Food" 

I intended an Ode,

And it turned to a Sonnet. 

It began la mode, 

I intended an Ode; 

But Rose crossed the road 

In her latest new bonnet; 

I intended an Ode; 

And it turned to a Sonnet. 

Graphic 23 May 1874, "Rose-Leaves" 

The ladies of St James's! 

They're painted to the eyes; 

Their white it stays for ever, 

Their red it never dies: 

But Phyllida, my Phyllida! 

Her colour comes and goes; 

It trembles to a lily,-- 

It wavers to a rose. 

Harper's Jan. 1883, "Ladies of St James's" 

Time goes, you say? Ah no! 

Alas, Time stays, we go. 

Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time" 

4.35 Ken Dodd 

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1931- 

The trouble with [Sigmund] Freud is that he never played the Glasgow 

Empire Saturday night. 

In The Times 7 Aug. 1965 

4.36 J. P. Donleavy 

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1926- 

But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you 

have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about 

getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're 

frightened of death. 

Ginger Man (1955) ch. 5 

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in 

all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me? 

Ginger Man (1955) ch. 31 

4.37 Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith 

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1899-1977 

Half a million more allotments properly worked will provide potatoes and 

vegetables that will feed another million adults and 1-1/2 million 

children for eight months out of 12. The matter is not one that can wait. 

So--let's get going. Let "Dig for Victory" be the motto of every one with 

a garden and of every able-bodied man and woman capable of digging an 

allotment in their spare time. 

Radio broadcast, 3 Oct. 1939, in The Times 4 Oct. 1939

4.38 Keith Douglas 

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1920-1944 

And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers 

come back, abandoning the expedition; 

the specimens, the lilies of ambition 

still spring in their climate, still unpicked: 

but time, time is all I lacked 

to find them, as the great collectors before me. 

Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) "On Return from Egypt, 1943-4" 

Remember me when I am dead 

And simplify me when I'm dead. 

Collected Poems (1966) "Simplify me when I'm Dead" (1941) 

But she would weep to see today 

how on his skin the swart flies move; 

the dust upon the paper eye 

and the burst stomach like a cave. 

For here the lover and killer are mingled 

who had one body and one heart. 

And death, who had the soldier singled 

has done the lover mortal hurt. 

Collected Poems (1966) "Vergissmeinnicht, 1943" 

If at times my eyes are lenses 

through which the brain explores 

constellations of feeling 

my ears yielding like swinging doors 

admit princes to the corridors 

into the mind, do not envy me. 

I have a beast on my back. 

Collected Poems (1966) "Bˆte Noire" (1944) 

4.39 Norman Douglas 

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1868-1952 

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him--two. 

Almanac (1941) p. 77 

The bishop was feeling rather sea-sick. Confoundedly sea-sick, in fact. 

South Wind (1917) ch. 1 

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. 


Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened 

a tavern for his friends. 


4.40 Sir Alec Douglas-Home 

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See Lord Home (8.75)

4.41 Caroline Douglas-Home 

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1937- 

He [Lord Home] is used to dealing with estate workers. I cannot see how 

anyone can say he is out of touch. 

Comment on her father becoming Prime Minister, in Daily Herald 21 Oct. 

1963 

4.42 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

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1859-1930 

To Sherlock Holmes she [Irene Adler] is always the woman. I have seldom 

heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and 

predominates the whole of her sex. 

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Scandal in Bohemia" 

You see, but you do not observe. 

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Scandal in Bohemia" 

It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for 

fifty minutes. 

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Red-Headed League" 

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely 

the most important. 

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Case of Identity" 

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. 

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Case of Identity" 

Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and 

commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home. 

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Boscombe Valley Mystery" 

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture 

that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room 

of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. 

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Five Orange Pips" 

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and 

vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than 

does the smiling and beautiful countryside. 

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Copper Beeches" 

Matilda Briggs...was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of 

Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared. 

Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) "Sussex Vampire" 

But here, unless I am mistaken, is our client. 

His Last Bow (1917) "Wisteria Lodge" 

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience. 

His Last Bow (1917) "Bruce-Partington Plans" 

"I [Sherlock Holmes] followed you." "I saw no one." "That is what you may

expect to see when I follow you." 

His Last Bow (1917) "Devil's Foot" 

Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. 

His Last Bow (1917) title story 

They were the footprints of a gigantic hound! 

Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) ch. 2 

A long shot, Watson; a very long shot! 

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) "Silver Blaze" 

"Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" 

"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." 

"The dog did nothing in the night-time." 

"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. 

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) "Silver Blaze" 

"Excellent," I [Dr Watson] cried. "Elementary," said he [Sherlock 

Holmes]. 

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) "The Crooked Man" ("Elementary" is 

often expanded into "Elementary, my dear Watson" but the longer phrase is 

not found in any book by Conan Doyle, although a review of the film The 

Return of Sherlock Holmes in New York Times 19 Oct. 1929, p. 22, says: In 

the final scene Dr Watson is there with his "Amazing Holmes," and Holmes 

comes forth with his "Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.") 

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity...is the Napoleon of 

crime, Watson. 

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) "The Final Problem" 

You mentioned your name as if I should recognise it, but I assure you 

that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a 

Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you. 

Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) "The Norwood Builder" 

Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department. 

Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) "The Second Stain" 

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in 

the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with 

romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a 

love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. 

Sign of Four (1890) ch. 1 

Yes, I have been guilty of several monographs....Here...is one "Upon the 

Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos." In it I enumerate 

a hundred and forty forms of cigar, cigarette and pipe tobacco. 


In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three 

separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer 

promise of a refined and sensitive nature. 


How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, 

whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? 


You know my methods. Apply them.


"It is the unofficial force--the Baker Street irregulars." As he spoke, 

there came a swift pattering of naked feet upon the stairs, a clatter of 

high voices, and in rushed a dozen dirty and ragged little street Arabs. 


London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the 

Empire are irresistibly drained. 

Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 1 

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It 

biases the judgement. 


Where there is no imagination there is no horror. 


It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most 

commonplace crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new 

or special features from which deductions may be drawn. 


"I am inclined to think--" said I [Dr Watson]. "I should do so," Sherlock 

Holmes remarked, impatiently. 

Valley of Fear (1915) ch. 1 

The vocabulary of "Bradshaw" is nervous and terse, but limited. The 

selection of words would hardly lend itself to the sending of general 

messages. 


Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly 

recognizes genius. 


What of the bow? 

The bow was made in England, 

Of true wood, of yew wood, 

The wood of English bows. 

White Company (1891) "Song of the Bow" 

4.43 Maurice Drake 

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Beanz meanz Heinz. 

Advertising slogan for Heinz baked beans circa 1967, in Nigel Rees Slogans 

(1982) p. 131 

4.44 William A. Drake 

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1899- 

See Greta Garbo (7.8) 

4.45 John Drinkwater 

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1882-1937 

In the corridors under there is nothing but sleep. 

And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep 

Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep 

On moon-washed apples of wonder. 

Tides (1917) "Moonlit Apples" 

4.46 Alexander Dubcek 

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1921- 

Proto veden¡ strany klade takov° duraz na to, aby...nase zeme hospod rsky 

a kulturne nezaost vala a hlavne abychom ve sluzb ch lidu delali takovou 

politiku, aby socialismus neztr cel svou lidskou tv r. 

That is why the leadership of the country has put such emphasis on 

ensuring that...our land did not lag behind economically or culturally, 

and, most important, why in the service of the people we followed a policy 

so that socialism would not lose its human face. 

In Rud‚ Pr vo19 July 1968 

4.47 Al Dubin 

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1891-1945 

Tiptoe through the tulips. 

Title of song (1929; music by Joseph Burke) 

4.48 W. E. B. DuBois 

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1868-1963 

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human 

beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. 

The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the 

great end comes slowly, because time is long. 

Last message (written 26 June, 1957) read at his funeral, 1963, in Journal 

of Negro History Apr. 1964 

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour 

line--the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and 

Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. 

Souls of Black Folk (1903) ch. 2 

4.49 Georges Duhamel 

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1884-1966 

Je respecte trop l' id‚e de Dieu pour la rendre responsable d'un monde 

aussi absurde. 

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for 

such an absurd world. 

Le d‚sert de BiŠvres (1937) in Chronique des Pasquier (1948) vol. 5,

p. 249 

4.50 Raoul Duke 

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See Hunter S. Thompson (20.17) 

4.51 John Foster Dulles 

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1888-1959 

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. 

Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were 

brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without 

getting into the war is the necessary art. If you cannot master it, you 

inevitably get into war. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared 

to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the 

face--on the question of enlarging the Korean war, on the question of 

getting into the Indochina war, on the question of Formosa. We walked to 

the brink and we looked it in the face. 

In Life 16 Jan. 1956 

If...the European Defence Community should not become effective; if France 

and Germany remain apart....That would compel an agonizing reappraisal of 

basic United States policy. 

Speech to NATO Council in Paris, 14 Dec. 1953, in New York Times 15 Dec. 

1953, p. 14 

4.52 Dame Daphne du Maurier 

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1907-1989 

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. 

Rebecca (1938) ch. 1 (opening sentence) 

4.53 Isadora Duncan 

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1878-1927 

Adieu, mes amis. Je vais … la gloire. 

Farewell, my friends. I am going to glory. 

Last words before her scarf caught in a car wheel and broke her neck, in 

Mary Desti Isadora Duncan's End (1929) ch. 25 

4.54 Ian Dunlop 

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The shock of the new: seven historic exhibitions of modern art. 


4.55 Jimmy Durante 

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1893-1980

Everybody wants to get inta the act! 

Catch-phrase, in W. Cahn Good Night, Mrs Calabash (1963) p. 95 

4.56 Leo Durocher 

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1906- 

I called off his players' names as they came marching up the steps behind 

him, "Walker, Cooper, Mize, Marshall, Kerr, Gordon, Thomson. Take a look 

at them. All nice guys. They'll finish last. Nice guys. Finish last." 

Said on 6 July 1946, in Nice Guys Finish Last (1975) pt. 1, p. 14 

(generally quoted as "Nice guys finish last") 

4.57 Ian Dury 

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Sex and drugs and rock and roll. 

Title of song (1977; music by Chaz Jankel) 

I could be the catalyst that sparks the revolution. 

I could be an inmate in a long term institution 

I could lean to wild extremes I could do or die, 

I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch them gallop by, 

What a waste, what a waste, what a waste, what a waste. 

What a Waste (1978 song; music by Chaz Jankel) 

4.58 Lillian K. Dykstra 

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He [Thomas Dewey] is just about the nastiest little man I've ever known. 

He struts sitting down. 

Letter to Franz Dykstra, 8 July 1952, in James T. Patterson Mr Republican 

(1972) ch. 35 

4.59 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) 

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1941- 

How many roads must a man walk down 

Before you can call him a man?... 

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, 

The answer is blowin' in the wind. 

Blowin' in the Wind (1962 song) 

Don't think twice, it's all right. 


I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, 

I saw guns and sharp swords, in the hands of young children, 

And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, 

And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall. 

A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (1963 song) 

Money doesn't talk, it swears. 

It's Alright, Ma (1965 song)

How does it feel 

To be on your own 

With no direction home 

Like a complete unknown 

Like a rolling stone? 

Like a Rolling Stone (1965 song) 

She knows there's no success like failure 

And that failure's no success at all. 

Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song) 

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's Farm no more. 

Maggie's Farm (1965 song) 

Hey! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me. 

I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. 

Mr Tambourine Man (1965 song) 

"Equality," I spoke the word 

As if a wedding vow 

Ah, but I was so much older then, 

I'm younger than that now. 

My Back Pages (1964 song) 

Don't follow leaders 

Watch the parkin' meters. 

Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965 song) 

Come mothers and fathers, 

Throughout the land 

And don't criticize 

What you can't understand. 

Your sons and your daughters 

Are beyond your command 

Your old road is 

Rapidly agin' 

Please get out of the new one 

If you can't lend your hand 

For the times they are a-changin'! 

The Times They Are A-Changing (1964 song) 

But I can't think for you 

You'll have to decide, 

Whether Judas Iscariot 

Had God on his side. 

With God on our Side (1963 song) 

5.0 E 

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5.1 Stephen T. Early 

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1889-1951 

I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry 

Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay."

William Hillman Mr President; the First Publication from the Personal 

Diaries, Private Letters, Papers and Revealing Interviews of Harry S. 

Truman (1952) pt. 5, p. 222 

5.2 Clint Eastwood 

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1930- 

See Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, and Dean Riesner (6.13) 

5.3 Abba Eban 

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1915- 

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have 

exhausted all other alternatives. 

Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970 

5.4 Sir Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) 

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1897-1977 

We are in an armed conflict; that is the phrase I have used. There has 

been no declaration of war. 


5.5 Clarissa Eden (Countess of Avon) 

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1920- 

For the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing 

through my drawing room. 

Speech at Gateshead, 20 Nov. 1956, in Gateshead Post 23 Nov. 1956 

5.6 Marriott Edgar 

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1880-1951 

There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, 

That's noted for fresh air and fun, 

And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom 

Went there with young Albert, their son. 

A grand little lad was young Albert, 

All dressed in his best; quite a swell 

With a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle, 

The finest that Woolworth's could sell. 

They didn't think much to the Ocean: 

The waves, they were fiddlin' and small, 

There was no wrecks and nobody drownded, 

Fact, nothing to laugh at at all. 

The Lion and Albert (1932) in Albert, 'Arold and Others (1937)--monologue 

recorded by Stanley Holloway in 1932

The Magistrate gave his opinion 

That no one was really to blame 

And he said that he hoped the Ramsbottoms 

Would have further sons to their name. 

At that Mother got proper blazing, 

"And thank you, sir, kindly," said she. 

"What, waste all our lives raising children 

To feed ruddy Lions? Not me!" 

The Lion and Albert (1932) in Albert, 'Arold and Others (1937) 

5.7 Duke of Edinburgh 

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1921- 

See Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (16.34) 

5.8 Thomas Alva Edison 

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1847-1931 

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. 

Harper's Monthly Magazine Sept. 1932 (quoted by M. A. Rosanoff as having 

been said by Edison circa 1903) 

5.9 John Maxwell Edmonds 

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1875-1958 

When you go home, tell them of us and say, 

"For your tomorrows these gave their today." 

Inscriptions Suggested for War Memorials (1919) 

5.10 King Edward VII 

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1841-1910 

That's the fourth time that infernal noise has roused me. 

Said to his secretary "Fritz" Ponsonby at the first performance of "The 

Wreckers," an opera by Dame Ethel Smyth, quoted in H. Atkins and A. Newman 

Beecham Stories (1978) p. 43 

I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with 

a silk hat at a private view in the morning. 

In Sir P. Magnus Edward VII (1964) ch. 19 (said to Sir Frederick Ponsonby, 

who had proposed to accompany him in a tail-coat) 

Because a man has a black face and a different religion from our own, 

there is no reason why he should be treated as a brute. 

Letter to Lord Granville, 30 Nov. 1875, in Sir Sydney Lee King Edward VII 

(1925) vol. 1, ch. 21 

5.11 King Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) 

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1894-1972

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey 

their children. 

Look 5 Mar. 1957 

At long last I am able to say a few words of my own. I have never wanted 

to withhold anything, but until now it has not been constitutionally 

possible for me to speak. A few hours ago I discharged my last duty as 

King and Emperor, and now that I have been succeeded by my brother, the 

Duke of York, my first words must be to declare allegiance to him. This 

I do with all my heart. 

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. 

But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget 

the country or the Empire which as Prince of Wales, and lately as King, 

I have for twenty-five years tried to serve. But you must believe me when 

I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of 

responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do 

without the help and support of the woman I love.... 

This decision has been made less difficult to me by the sure knowledge 

that my brother, with his long training in the public affairs of this 

country and with his fine qualities, will be able to take my place 

forthwith, without interruption or injury to the life and progress of the 

Empire. And he has one matchless blessing, enjoyed by so many of you and 

not bestowed on me--a happy home with his wife and children.... 

I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden....God 

bless you all. God save the King. 

Broadcast, 11 Dec. 1936, in The Times 12 Dec. 1936 

These works [the derelict Dowlais Iron and Steel Works] brought all these 

people here. Something should be done to get them at work again. 

Spoken to Charles Keen, 18 Nov. 1936, in Western Mail 19 Nov. 1936 

5.12 John Ehrlichman 

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1925- 

I think we ought to let him [Patrick Gray] hang there. Let him twist 

slowly, slowly in the wind. 

Telephone conversation with John Dean, 7 or 8 Mar. 1973, in Washington 

Post 27 July 1973, p. A27 (regarding Patrick Gray's nomination as Director 

of the FBI) 

5.13 Albert Einstein 

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1879-1955 

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race. 

In Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman Albert Einstein, the Human Side (1979) 

p. 38 

I am an absolute pacifist....It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling 

that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting. 

Interview with Paul Hutchinson, in Christian Century 28 Aug. 1929

Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. 

God is subtle but he is not malicious. 

Remark made during a week at Princeton beginning 9 May 1921, later carved 

above the fireplace of the Common Room of Fine Hall (the Mathematical 

Institute), Princeton University - in R. W. Clark Einstein (1973) ch. 14 

Jedenfalls bin ich berzeugt, dass der nicht wrfelt. 

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice. 

Letter to Max Born, 4 Dec. 1926, in Einstein und Born Briefwechsel (1969) 

p. 130 (often quoted as Gott wrfelt nicht God does not play dice, e.g. in 

B. Hoffmann Albert Einstein (1973) ch. 10) 

If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as 

a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should 

my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany 

will declare that I am a Jew. 

Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, ?early Dec. 1929, in New York Times 

16 Feb. 1930 

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of 

thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. 

Telegram sent to prominent Americans, 24 May 1946, in New York Times 

25 May 1946 

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is 

play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. 

In Observer 15 Jan. 1950 

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, 

I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would 

rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest 

degree of independence still available under present circumstances. 

Reporter 18 Nov. 1954 

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. 

Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium (1941) ch. 13 

5.14 Dwight D. Eisenhower 

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1890-1969 

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms 

industry is new in the American experience....We recognize the imperative 

need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave 

implications....In the councils of government, we must guard against the 

acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the 

military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of 

misplaced power exists and will persist. 

Farewell broadcast, 17 Jan. 1961, in New York Times 18 Jan. 1961 

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired 

signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not 

fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not 

spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius 

of its scientists, the hopes of its children. 

Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 

(1960) p. 182

You have broader considerations that might follow what you might call the 

"falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up. You knock 

over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will 

go over very quickly. So you have the beginning of a disintegration that 

would have the most profound influences. 

Speech at press conference, 7 Apr. 1954, in Public Papers of Presidents 

1954 (1960) p. 383 

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments 

had better get out of the way and let them have it. 

Broadcast discussion, 31 Aug. 1959, in Public Papers of Presidents 1959 

(1960) p. 625 

5.15 T. S. Eliot 

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1888-1965 

Where are the eagles and the trumpets? 

Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps. 

Over buttered scones and crumpets 

Weeping, weeping multitudes 

Droop in a hundred A.B.C.'s. 

Ara Vus Prec (1920) "Cooking Egg" 

Here I am, an old man in a dry month 

Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. 

Ara Vus Prec (1920) "Gerontion" 

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now 

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors 

And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, 

Guides us by vanities. 


Tenants of the house, 

Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season. 


A cold coming we had of it, 

Just the worst time of the year 

For a journey, and such a long journey: 

The ways deep and the weather sharp, 

The very dead of winter. 

Ariel Poems (1927) "Journey of the Magi" 

But set down 

This set down 

This: were we led all that way for 

Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly, 

We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death 

But had thought they were different; this Birth was 

Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. 

We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, 

But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, 

With an alien people clutching their gods. 

I should be glad of another death. 

Ariel Poems (1927) "Journey of the Magi"

Because I do not hope to turn again 

Because I do not hope 

Because I do not hope to turn. 

Ash-Wednesday (1930) pt. 1 

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly 

But merely vans to beat the air 

The air which is now thoroughly small and dry 

Smaller and dryer than the will 

Teach us to care and not to care 

Teach us to sit still. 


Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree 

In the cool of the day. 


You've missed the point completely, Julia: 

There were no tigers. That was the point. 

Cocktail Party (1950) act 1, sc. 1 

What is hell? 

Hell is oneself, 

Hell is alone, the other figures in it 

Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from 

And nothing to escape to. One is always alone. 

Cocktail Party (1950) act 1, sc. 3 

How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot! 

With his features of clerical cut, 

And his brow so grim 

And his mouth so prim 

And his conversation, so nicely 

Restricted to What Precisely 

And If and Perhaps and But. 

Collected Poems (1936) "Five-Finger Exercises" 

Time present and time past 

Are both perhaps present in time future, 

And time future contained in time past. 

Collected Poems (1936) "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 

Footfalls echo in the memory 

Down the passage which we did not take 

Towards the door we never opened 

Into the rose-garden. My words echo 

Thus, in your mind. 


Human kind 

Cannot bear very much reality. 

Collected Poems (1936) "Burnt Norton" pt. 1. 

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; 

Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, 

But neither arrest nor movement. 


Words strain,

Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, 

Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, 

Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, 

Will not stay still. 


I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river 

Is a strong brown god--sullen, untamed and intractable. 

Dry Salvages (1941) pt. 1 

In my beginning is my end. 

East Coker (1940) pt. 1 

That was a way of putting it--not very satisfactory: 

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, 

Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle 

With words and meanings. The poetry does not matter. 


The houses are all gone under the sea. 

The dancers are all gone under the hill. 


O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, 

The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant. 


The wounded surgeon plies the steel 

That questions the distempered part; 

Beneath the bleeding hands we feel 

The sharp compassion of the healer's art 

Resolving the enigma of the fever chart. 


Each venture 

Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate 

With shabby equipment always deteriorating 

In the general mess of imprecision of feeling. 


Success is relative: 

It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. 

Family Reunion (1939) pt. 2, sc. 3 

Agatha! Mary! come! 

The clock has stopped in the dark! 


Round and round the circle 

Completing the charm 

So the knot be unknotted 

The cross be uncrossed 

The crooked be made straight 

And the curse be ended. 


And what the dead had no speech for, when living, 

They can tell you, being dead: the communication 

Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. 

Little Gidding (1942) pt. 1

Ash on an old man's sleeve 

Is all the ash the burnt roses leave. 

Dust in the air suspended 

Marks the place where a story ended. 

Dust inbreathed was a house-- 

The wall, the wainscot and the mouse. 

The death of hope and despair, 

This is the death of air. 

Little Gidding (1942) pt. 2 

Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled us 

To purify the dialect of the tribe 

And urge the mind to aftersight and foresight. 


We shall not cease from exploration 

And the end of all our exploring 

Will be to arrive where we started 

And know the place for the first time. 


What we call the beginning is often the end 

And to make an end is to make a beginning. 

The end is where we start from. 


A people without history 

Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern 

Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails 

On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel 

History is now and England. 


A condition of complete simplicity 

(Costing not less than everything) 

And all shall be well and 

All manner of thing shall be well 

When the tongues of flame are in-folded 

Into the crowned knot of fire 

And the fire and the rose are one. 


Yet we have gone on living, 

Living and partly living. 

Murder in the Cathedral (1935) pt. 1 

The last temptation is the greatest treason: 

To do the right deed for the wrong reason. 


Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take the stone from stone, 

take the skin from the arm, take the muscle from bone, and wash them. 


Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth 

living. 

Notes Towards a Definition of Culture (1948) ch. 1 

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,

There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity. 

He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare: 

At whatever time the deed took place--MACAVITY WASN'T THERE! 

And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known 

(I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) 

Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time 

Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime! 

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) "Macavity: the Mystery Cat." 

Cf. Conan Doyle 69:16 

The host with someone indistinct 

Converses at the door apart, 

The nightingales are singing near 

The Convent of the Sacred Heart, 

And sang within the bloody wood 

When Agamemnon cried aloud 

And let their liquid siftings fall 

To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud. 

Poems (1919) "Sweeney among the Nightingales" 

The hippopotamus's day 

Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; 

God works in a mysterious way-- 

The Church can feed and sleep at once. 

Poems (1919) "The Hippopotamus" 

Polyphiloprogenitive 

The sapient sutlers of the Lord 

Drift across window-panes 

In the beginning was the Word. 

Poems (1919) "Mr Eliot's Sunday Morning Service" 

Webster was much possessed by death 

And saw the skull beneath the skin; 

And breastless creatures underground 

Leaned backward with a lipless grin. 

Poems (1919) "Whispers of Immortality" 

Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye 

Is underlined for emphasis; 

Uncorseted, her friendly bust 

Gives promise of pneumatic bliss. 

Poems (1919) "Whispers of Immortality" 

We are the hollow men 

We are the stuffed men 

Leaning together 

Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! 

Poems 1909-1925 (1925) "The Hollow Men" 

Here we go round the prickly pear 

Prickly pear prickly pear 

Here we go round the prickly pear 

At five o'clock in the morning. 

Between the idea 

And the reality 

Between the motion 

And the act

Falls the Shadow. 


This is the way the world ends 

Not with a bang but a whimper. 


Let us go then, you and I, 

When the evening is spread out against the sky 

Like a patient etherized upon a table. 

Prufrock (1917) "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 

In the room the women come and go 

Talking of Michelangelo. 

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes. 

The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes. 

Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening. 


I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. 


I should have been a pair of ragged claws 

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. 


I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, 

And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 

And in short, I was afraid. 


No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; 

Am an attendant lord, one that will do 

To swell a progress, start a scene or two, 

Advise the prince. 


I grow old...I grow old... 

I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. 

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? 

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. 

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. 

I do not think that they will sing to me. 


The winter evening settles down 

With smell of steaks in passageways. 

Six o'clock. 

The burnt-out ends of smoky days. 

Prufrock (1917) "Preludes" 

Every street lamp that I pass 

Beats like a fatalistic drum, 

And through the spaces of the dark 

Midnight shakes the memory 

As a madman shakes a dead geranium. 

Prufrock (1917) "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids 

Sprouting despondently at area gates. 

Prufrock (1917) "Morning at the Window" 

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair-- 

Lean on a garden urn-- 

Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair. 

Prufrock (1917) "La Figlia Che Piange" 

Sometimes these cogitations still amaze 

The troubled midnight and the noon's repose. 

Prufrock (1917) "La Figlia Che Piange" 

Where is the Life we have lost in living? 

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? 

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? 

The Rock (1934) pt. 1 

And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people: 

Their only monument the asphalt road 

And a thousand lost golf balls." 

The Rock (1934) pt. 1 

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it 

is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, 

of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means 

to want to escape from these things. 

Sacred Wood (1920) "Tradition and Individual Talent" 

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an 

"objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, 

a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion; 

such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory 

experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked. 

Sacred Wood (1920) "Hamlet and his Problems" 

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. 

Sacred Wood (1920) "Philip Massinger" 

Birth, and copulation, and death. 

That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks: 

Birth, and copulation, and death. 

I've been born, and once is enough. 

Sweeney Agonistes (1932) p. 24 

In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from 

which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was 

due to the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century, Milton 

and Dryden. 

Times Literary Supplement 20 Oct. 1921 

We can only say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization, as 

it exists at present, must be difficult. 

Times Literary Supplement 20 Oct. 1921 

Stone, bronze, stone, steel, stone, oakleaves, horses' heels 

Over the paving. 

Triumphal March (1931)

April is the cruellest month, breeding 

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing 

Memory and desire, stirring 

Dull roots with spring rain. 

Winter kept us warm, covering 

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding 

A little life with dried tubers. 

Waste Land (1922) pt. 1 

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. 


And I will show you something different from either 

Your shadow at morning striding behind you 

Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; 

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. 

Waste Land (1922) pt. 1. Cf. Joseph Conrad 60:4 

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, 

Had a bad cold, nevertheless 

Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, 

With a wicked pack of cards. 


Unreal City, 

Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, 

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, 

I had not thought death had undone so many. 

Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, 

And each man fixed his eyes before his feet 

Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, 

To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours 

With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. 


The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, 

Glowed on the marble. 

Waste Land (1922) pt. 2 (cf. Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra act 2, 

sc. 2, l. 199) 

And still she cried, and still the world pursues, 

"Jug Jug" to dirty ears. 


I think we are in rats' alley 

Where the dead men lost their bones. 


O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag-- 

It's so elegant 

So intelligent. 

Waste Land (1922) pt. 2. Cf. Gene Buck and Herman Ruby 

Hurry up please it's time. 


But at my back from time to time I hear 

The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring 

Sweeney to Mrs Porter in the spring. 

O the moon shone bright on Mrs Porter

And on her daughter 

They wash their feet in soda water. 

Waste Land (1922) pt. 3. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 

332:19 

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back 

Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits 

Like a taxi throbbing waiting, 

I, Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives, 

Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see 

At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives 

Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea, 

The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights 

Her stove, and lays out food in tins. 


I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs 

Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest-- 

I too awaited the expected guest. 

He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, 

A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, 

One of the low on whom assurance sits 

As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire. 


When lovely woman stoops to folly and 

Paces about her room again, alone, 

She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, 

And puts a record on the gramophone. 


Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, 

Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell 

And the profit and loss. 


Who is the third who walks always beside you? 

When I count, there are only you and I together 

But when I look ahead up the white road 

There is always another one walking beside you. 


A woman drew her long black hair out tight 

And fiddled whisper music on those strings 

And bats with baby faces in the violet light 

Whistled. 


These fragments I have shored against my ruins. 


5.16 Queen Elizabeth II 

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1926- 

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, 

shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great Imperial 

family to which we all belong. 

Broadcast speech (as Princess Elizabeth) to the Commonwealth from Cape

Town, 21 Apr. 1947, in The Times 22 Apr. 1947 

I think everybody really will concede that on this, of all days, I should 

begin my speech with the words "My husband and I." 

Speech at Guildhall on her 25th wedding anniversary, 20 Nov. 1972, in The 

Times 21 Nov. 1972 

5.17 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 

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1900- 

I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in 

the face. 

Said to a policeman, 13 Sept. 1940, in John Wheeler-Bennett King George VI 

(1958) pt. 3, ch. 6 

5.18 Alf Ellerton 

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Belgium put the kibosh on the Kaiser. 


5.19 Havelock Ellis (Henry Havelock Ellis) 

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1859-1939 

It is certainly strange to observe...how many people seem to feel vain of 

their own unqualified optimism when the place where optimism most 

flourishes is the lunatic asylum. 

Dance of Life (1923) ch. 3 

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy 

it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our 

sense of hearing. As usual, what we call "Progress" is the exchange of 

one Nuisance for another Nuisance. 

Impressions and Comments (1914) 31 July 1912 

Every artist writes his own autobiography. 

New Spirit (1890) "Tolstoi" 

5.20 Paul Eluard 

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1895-1952 

Adieu tristesse 

Bonjour tristesse 

Tu es inscrite dans les lignes du plafond. 

Farewell sadness 

Good-day sadness 

You are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling. 

La vie imm‚diate (1930) "A peine d‚figur‚e," in uvres complŠtes (1968) 

vol. 1, p. 365 

5.21 Sir William Empson 

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1906-1984 

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. 

It is not the effort nor the failure tires. 

The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. 

Poems (1935) "Missing Dates" 

Seven types of ambiguity. 


5.22 Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch 

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Julius J. Epstein 1909- 

Philip G. Epstein 1909-1952 

Howard Koch 1902- 

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into 

mine. 

Casablanca (1942 film), words spoken by Humphrey Bogart 

If she can stand it, I can. Play it! 

Casablanca (1942 film), words spoken by Humphrey Bogart, often misquoted 

as "Play it again, Sam" (earlier in the film, Ingrid Bergman says: "Play 

it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By .") 

Here's looking at you, kid. 

Casablanca (1942 film), words spoken by Humphrey Bogart 

Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects. 

Casablanca (1942 film), words spoken by Claude Rains 

5.23 Susan Ertz 

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1894-1985 

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for 

immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday 

afternoon. 

Anger in the Sky (1943) p. 137 

5.24 Dudley Erwin 

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1917-1984 

Mr Dudley Erwin, former Air Minister [in Australia], claimed last night 

that the secretary of Mr John Gorton, the Prime Minster, had cost him his 

job in the reshuffled Government announced earlier this week. At first Mr 

Erwin said he was dropped because of a "political manoeuvre." Later, when 

asked to explain what this meant, he said: "It wiggles, it's shapely and 

its name is Ainsley Gotto." 

The Times 14 Nov. 1969 

5.25 Howard Estabrook and Harry Behn 

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Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable. 

Hell's Angels (1930 film), words spoken by Jean Harlow 

5.26 Gavin Ewart 

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1916- 

Miss Twye was soaping her breasts in the bath 

When she heard behind her a meaning laugh 

And to her amazement she discovered 

A wicked man in the bathroom cupboard. 

Poems and Songs (1939) "Miss Twye" 

5.27 William Norman Ewer 

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1885-1976 

I gave my life for freedom--This I know: 

For those who bade me fight had told me so. 

Five Souls and Other Verses (1917) "Five Souls" 

How odd 

Of God 

To choose 

The Jews. 

In Week-End Book (1924) p. 117 (for the reply, see Cecil Browne) 

6.0 F 

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6.1 Clifton Fadiman 

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1904- 

Provided it be well and truly made there is really for the confirmed 

turophile no such thing as a bad cheese. A cheese may disappoint. It may 

be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains 

cheese, milk's leap toward immortality. 

Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105 

On November 17...I encountered the mama of dada [Gertrude Stein] again 

(something called Portraits and Prayers) and as usual withdrew worsted. 

Party of One (1955) p. 90 

6.2 Eleanor Farjeon 

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1881-1965 

Morning has broken 

Like the first morning, 

Blackbird has spoken 

Like the first bird. 

Praise for the singing!

Praise for the morning! 

Praise for them, springing 

Fresh from the Lord! 

Children's Bells (1957) "A Morning Song (for the First Day of Spring)" 

King's Cross! 

What shall we do? 

His Purple Robe 

Is rent in two! 

Out of his Crown 

He's torn the gems! 

He's thrown his Sceptre 

Into the Thames! 

The Court is shaking 

In its shoe-- 

King's Cross! 

What shall we do? 

Leave him alone 

For a minute or two. 

Nursery Rhymes of London Town (1916) "King's Cross" 

6.3 King Farouk of Egypt 

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1920-1965 

The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the 

King of England, the King of Spades, the King of Clubs, the King of Hearts 

and the King of Diamonds. 

Said to Lord Boyd-Orr at a conference in Cairo, 1948, in Lord Boyd-Orr As 

I Recall (1966) ch. 21 

6.4 William Faulkner 

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1897-1962 

The long summer. 

The Hamlet (1940), title of bk. 3. Cf. Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank 

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely 

ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he 

must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the 

board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book 

written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode 

on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. 

In Paris Review Spring 1956, p. 30 

He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be 

afraid and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in 

his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, 

the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and 

doomed--love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. 

Nobel Prize speech, 1950, in Les Prix Nobel en 1950 (1951) p. 71 

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, 

not because he, alone among creatures, has an inexhaustible voice but 

because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and 

endurance. 

Nobel Prize speech, 1950, in Les Prix Nobel en 1950 (1951) p. 71

There is no such thing...as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be 

better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; 

then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. 

In James M. Webb and A. Wigfall Green William Faulkner of Oxford (1965) 

p. 110 

6.5 George Fearon 

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1901-1972 

In my capacity as Press Representative for the English Stage Company I had 

read John Osborne's play [Look Back in Anger]. When I met the author 

I ventured to prophesy that his generation would praise his play while 

mine would, in general, dislike it. I then told him jokingly that Sloane 

Square might well become a bloody battleground. "If this happens," I told 

him, "you would become known as the Angry Young Man." In fact, we decided 

then and there that henceforth he was to be known as that. 

Daily Telegraph 2 Oct. 1957 

6.6 James Fenton 

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1949- 

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. 

It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. 

It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer 

exist. 

German Requiem (1981) p. 1 

6.7 Edna Ferber 

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1887-1968 

Mother knows best. 

Title of story (1927) 

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation 

after you cease to struggle. 

In R. E. Drennan Wit's End (1973) 

6.8 Kathleen Ferrier 

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1912-1953 

Enid and I visited her just before the end to be greeted by her with 

smiling affection. She tired quickly and gently sent us away by murmuring, 

"Now I'll have eine kleine Pause." Those were the last words we heard her 

utter. 

Gerald Moore Am I Too Loud? (1962) ch. 19 

6.9 Eric Field 

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Towards the end of July 1914, I...received a surprise call from Colonel

Strachey, the A.A.G. (Recruiting). He swore me to secrecy, told me that 

war was imminent and that the moment it broke out we should have to start 

advertising at once....That night I worked out a draft schedule and wrote 

an advertisement headed "Your King and Country need you" with the 

inevitable Coat of Arms at the top. 

Advertising (1959) ch. 2 

6.10 Dorothy Fields 

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1905-1974 

The minute you walked in the joint, 

I could see you were a man of distinction, 

A real big spender. 

Good looking, so refined, 

Say, wouldn't you like to know what's going on in my mind? 

So let me get right to the point. 

I don't pop my cork for every guy I see. 

Hey! big spender, spend a little time with me. 

Big Spender (1966 song; music by Cy Coleman) 

A fine romance with no kisses. 

A fine romance, my friend, this is. 

We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes, 

But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes. 

A Fine Romance (1936 song; music by Jerome Kern) 

I can't give you anything but love (baby). 

Title of song (1928; music by Jimmy McHugh) 

Grab your coat, and get your hat, 

Leave your worry on the doorstep, 

Just direct your feet 

To the sunny side of the street. 

On the Sunny Side of the Street (1930 song; music by Jimmy McHugh) 

6.11 Dame Gracie Fields (Grace Stansfield) 

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1898-1979 

See Jimmy Harper et al. (8.24) 

6.12 W. C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield) 

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1880-1946 

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. 

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939 film), in William K. Everson Art of 

W. C. Fields (1968) p. 167 

Never give a sucker an even break. 

In Collier's 28 Nov. 1925. It was W. C. Fields's catch-phrase, and he is 

said to have used it in the musical comedy Poppy (1923), although it does 

not occur in the libretto. It was used as the title of a W. C. Fields film 

in 1941. 

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

In Richard J. Anobile Godfrey Daniels (1975) p. 6 

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. 

That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for. 

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941 film), in Richard J. Anobile 

Flask of Fields (1972) p. 219 

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which 

I also keep handy. 

In Corey Ford Time of Laughter (1970) p. 182 

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia. 

Suggested epitaph for himself, in Vanity Fair June 1925 

Fifteen years ago, I made the line "It ain't a fit night out for man or 

beast" a by-word by using it in my sketch in Earl Carroll's Vanities. 

Later on, I used it as a title for a moving picture I did for Mack 

Sennett. I do not claim to be the originator of this line as it was 

probably used long before I was born in some old melodrama. 

Letter, 8 Feb. 1944, in R. J. Fields (ed.) W. C. Fields by Himself (1974) 

pt. 2 (also used by Fields in his 1933 film The Fatal Glass of Beer) 

Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against. 

In Robert Lewis Taylor W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes (1950) 

p. 228 

6.13 Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, and Dean Riesner 

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Go ahead, make my day. 

Dirty Harry (1971 film; words spoken by Clint Eastwood) 

6.14 Ronald Firbank 

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1886-1926 

"O! help me, heaven," she prayed, "to be decorative and to do right!" 

Flower Beneath the Foot (1923) ch. 2 

Looking back, I remember the average curate at home as something between a 

eunuch and a snigger. 

Flower Beneath the Foot (1923) ch. 4 

There was a pause--just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly. 

Vainglory (1915) ch. 6 

All millionaires love a baked apple. 

Vainglory (1915) ch. 13 

"I know of no joy," she airily began, "greater than a cool white dress 

after the sweetness of confession." 

Valmouth (1919) ch. 4 

6.15 Fred Fisher 

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1875-1942

See Ada Benson (2.55) 

6.16 H. A. L. Fisher 

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1856-1940 

One intellectual excitement has, however, been denied me. Men wiser and 

more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, 

a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see 

only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only 

one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no 

generalizations, only one safe rule for the historian: that he should 

recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent 

and the unforeseen. 

History of Europe (1935) p. vii 

6.17 John Arbuthnot Fisher (Baron Fisher) 

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1841-1920 

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. 

Lecture notes 1899-1902, in R. H. Bacon Life of Lord Fisher (1929) vol. 1, 

ch. 7 

Yours till Hell freezes. 

Letter to George Lambert, 5 Apr. 1909, in A. J. Marder Fear God and Dread 

Nought (1956) vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 2. Cf. F. Ponsonby Reflections of Three 

Reigns (1951) p. 131: Once an officer in India wrote to me and ended his 

letter "Yours till Hell freezes." I used this forcible expression in 

a letter to Fisher, and he adopted it instead of "Yours sincerely" and 

used it a great deal. 

You must be ruthless, relentless, and remorseless! Sack the lot! 

Letter to The Times 2 Sept. 1919 

This letter is not to argue with your leading article of September 2. 

(It's only d--d fools who argue!) 

Never contradict 

Never explain 

Never apologize 

(Those are the secrets of a happy life!) 

Letter to The Times, 5 Sept. 1919 

6.18 Marve Fisher 

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I want an old-fashioned house 

With an old-fashioned fence 

And an old-fashioned millionaire. 

Old-Fashioned Girl (1954 song; popularized by Eartha Kitt) 

6.19 Albert H. Fitz 

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You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee. 

The Honeysuckle and the Bee (1901 song; music by William H. Penn)

6.20 F. Scott Fitzgerald 

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1896-1940 

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. 

All Sad Young Men (1926) "Rich Boy" (Ernest Hemingway's rejoinder in his 

story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"--in Esquire Aug. 1936--was: "Yes, they 

have more money") 

The beautiful and damned. 


No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas 

have died there. 

Note-Books E, in Edmund Wilson Crack-Up (1945) 

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. 

Note-Books E, in Edmund Wilson Crack-Up (1945) 

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed 

ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to 

function. 

Esquire Feb. 1936, "The Crack-Up" 

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the 

morning, day after day. 

Esquire Mar. 1936, "Handle with Care" 

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice I've 

been turning over in my mind ever since. 

Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 1 

In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the 

whisperings and the champagne and the stars. 


Her voice is full of money. 


Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year 

recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--to-morrow we 

will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....And one fine morning-- 

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the 

past. 


There are no second acts in American lives. 

In Edmund Wilson Last Tycoon (1949) "Hollywood, etc. Notes" 

She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely 

more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in 

Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude. 

This Side of Paradise (1921) bk. 1, ch. 1 

6.21 Zelda Fitzgerald 

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1900-1948 

Ernest, don't you think Al Jolson is greater than Jesus? 

In Ernest Hemingway Moveable Feast (1964) ch. 18. Cf. John Lennon 135:2 

6.22 Robert Fitzsimmons 

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1862-1917 

You know the old saying, "The bigger they are, the further they have to 

fall." 

In Brooklyn Daily Eagle 11 Aug. 1900 

6.23 Bud Flanagan (Chaim Reeven Weintrop) 

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1896-1968 

Underneath the Arches, 

I dream my dreams away, 

Underneath the Arches, 

On cobble-stones I lay. 

Underneath the Arches (1932 song; additional words by Reg Connelly) 

6.24 Michael Flanders and Donald Swann 

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Michael Flanders 1922-1975 

Donald Swann 1923- 

I'm a gnu 

A gnother gnu. 

The Gnu (1956 song) 

Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! 

Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. 

So, follow me, follow, 

Down to the hollow, 

And there let us wallow 

In glorious mud. 

Hippopotamus Song (1952) 

I don't eat people, 

I won't eat people, 

I don't eat people, 

Eating people is wrong! 

The Reluctant Cannibal (1956 song) 

6.25 James Elroy Flecker 

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1884-1915 

We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage 

And swear that beauty lives though lilies die, 

We Poets of the proud old lineage 

Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why,-- 

What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales

Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest. 

Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) "Prologue" 

When the great markets by the sea shut fast 

All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: 

When even lovers find their peace at last, 

And earth is but a star, that once had shone. 

Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) "Prologue" 

Sweet to ride forth at evening from the wells, 

When shadows pass gigantic on the sand, 

And softly through the silence beat the bells 

Along the Golden Road to Samarkand. 

Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) p. 8 

For lust of knowing what should not be known, 

We take the Golden Road to Samarkand. 

Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) p. 8 

How splendid in the morning glows the lily; with what grace he throws 

His supplication to the rose. 

Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) "Yasmin" 

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin. 


For one night or the other night 

Will come the Gardener in white, and gathered flowers are dead, Yasmin. 


The dragon-green, the luminous, the dark, the serpent-haunted sea. 

Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) "Gates of Damascus" 

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon-- 

With few but with how splendid stars 

The mirrors of the sea are strewn 

Between their silver bars! 

Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) "A Ship, an Isle, and a Sickle Moon" 

For pines are gossip pines the wide world through 

And full of runic tales to sigh or sing. 

Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) "Brumana" 

Half to forget the wandering and pain, 

Half to remember days that have gone by, 

And dream and dream that I am home again! 

Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) "Brumana" 

Noon strikes on England, noon on Oxford town, 

Beauty she was statue cold--there's blood upon her gown: 

Noon of my dreams, O noon! 

Proud and godly kings had built her, long ago, 

With her towers and tombs and statues all arow, 

With her fair and floral air and the love that lingers there, 

And the streets where the great men go. 

Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) "Dying Patriot" 

West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides 

I must go 

Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young

Star captains glow. 

Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) "Dying Patriot" 

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep 

Beyond the village which men still call Tyre, 

With leaden age o'ercargoed, dipping deep 

For Famagusta and the hidden sun 

That rings black Cyprus with a lake of fire. 

Old Ships (1915) title poem 

And with great lies about his wooden horse 

Set the crew laughing, and forgot his course. 


It was so old a ship--who knows, who knows? 

--And yet so beautiful, I watched in vain 

To see the mast burst open with a rose, 

And the whole deck put on its leaves again. 


How shall we conquer? Like a wind 

That falls at eve our fancies blow, 

And old Maeonides the blind 

Said it three thousand years ago. 

36 Poems (1910) "To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence" 

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, 

Student of our sweet English tongue, 

Read out my words at night, alone: 

I was a poet, I was young. 

36 Poems (1910) "To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence" 

6.26 Ian Fleming 

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1908-1964 

Bond said, "And I would like a medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of 

lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred, please. I would prefer Russian or 

Polish vodka." 

Dr No (1958) ch. 14 

From Russia with love. 


Live and let die. 


6.27 Robert, Marquis de Flers and Arman de Caillavet 

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Robert, Marquis de Flers 1872-1927 

Arman de Caillavet 1869-1915 

D‚mocratie est le nom que nous donnons au peuple toutes les fois que nous 

avons besoin de lui. 

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. 

L'habit vert act 1, sc. 12, in La petite illustration s‚rie th‚ƒtre

31 May 1913 

6.28 Dario Fo 

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1926- 

Non si paga, non si paga. 

We won't pay, we won't pay. 

Title of play (1975; translated by Lino Pertile in 1978 as "We Can't Pay? 

We Won't Pay!" and performed in London in 1981 as "Can't Pay? Won't Pay!") 

6.29 Marshal Ferdinand Foch 

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1851-1929 

Mon centre cŠde, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque. 

My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am 

attacking. 

Message sent during the first Battle of the Marne, Sept. 1914, in R. 

Recouly Foch (1919) ch. 6 

Ce n'est pas un trait‚ de paix, c'est un armistice de vingt ans. 

This [the treaty signed at Versailles in 1919] is not a peace treaty, it 

is an armistice for twenty years. 

In Paul Reynaud M‚moires (1963) vol. 2, p. 457 

6.30 J. Foley 

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Old soldiers never die, 

They simply fade away. 

Old Soldiers Never Die (1920 song; copyrighted by J. Foley but perhaps 

a "folk-song" from the First World War) 

6.31 Michael Foot 

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1913- 

A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific 

fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and 

ears and emotions were riveted. 

Aneurin Bevan (1962) vol. 1, ch. 13 

Think of it! A second Chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of 

eunuchs. 


It is not necessary that every time he [Norman Tebbit] rises he should 

give his famous imitation of a semi-house-trained polecat. 

Hansard 2 Mar. 1978, col. 668 

6.32 Anna Ford 

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1943- 

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television. 

In Observer 23 Sept. 1979 

6.33 Gerald Ford 

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1909- 

I believe that truth is the glue that holds Government together, not only 

our Government, but civilization itself. 

Speech, 9 Aug. 1974, in G. J. Lankevich Gerald R. Ford (1977) 

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution 

works; our great Republic is a Government of laws and not of men. Here the 

people rule. 

Speech, 9 Aug. 1974, in G. J. Lankevich Gerald R. Ford (1977) 

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be 

under a Ford administration. 

In television debate with Jimmy Carter, 6 Oct. 1976, in S. Kraus Great 

Debates (1979) p. 482 

If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big 

enough to take away everything you have. 

In John F. Parker If Elected (1960) p. 193 

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as 

Lincoln's. But I will do my best to equal his brevity and plain speaking. 

Speech on taking vice-presidential oath, 6 Dec. 1973, in Washington Post 

7 Dec. 1973 

6.34 Henry Ford 

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1863-1947 

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We 

want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's 

damn is the history we make today. 

Chicago Tribune 25 May 1916 (interview with Charles N. Wheeler) 

People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black. 

In Allan Nevins Ford (1957) vol. 2, ch. 15 

6.35 Lena Guilbert Ford 

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1870-1916 

Keep the Home-fires burning, 

While your hearts are yearning, 

Though your lads are far away 

They dream of Home. 

There's a silver lining 

Through the dark cloud shining; 

Turn the dark cloud inside out, 

Till the boys come Home.

'Till the Boys Come Home! (1914 song; music by Ivor Novello) 

6.36 Howell Forgy 

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1908-1983 

Lieutenant Forgy...said that on Dec. 7 he was at Pearl Harbor directing 

preparations for church services aboard his ship...when general quarters 

were sounded as the Japanese attacked. He reported to his battle station. 

The power was off on a powder hoist, he said, and so Lieutenant Edwin 

Woodhead formed a line of sailors to pass the ammunition by hand to the 

deck. The chaplain moved along the line, encouraging the passers and 

repeating, "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." 

New York Times 1 Nov. 1942. Cf. Frank Loesser's 1942 song Praise the Lord 

and Pass the Ammunition . 

6.37 E. M. Forster 

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1879-1970 

They [public schoolboys] go forth into a world that is not entirely 

composed of public-school men or even of Anglo-Saxons, but of men who are 

as various as the sands of the sea; into a world of whose richness and 

subtlety they have no conception. They go forth into it with 

well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds, and undeveloped hearts. 

Abinger Harvest (1936) "Notes on English Character" 

It is not that the Englishman can't feel--it is that he is afraid to feel. 

He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must 

not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he 

talks--his pipe might fall out if he did. 

Abinger Harvest (1936) "Notes on English Character" 

Everything must be like something, so what is this like? 

Abinger Harvest (1936) "Doll Souse" 

American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum. 

Abinger Harvest (1936) "Mickey and Minnie." Cf. 24:8 

It is frivolous stuff, and how rare, how precious is frivolity! How few 

writers can prostitute all their powers! They are always implying "I am 

capable of higher things." 

Abinger Harvest (1936) "Ronald Firbank" 

The historian must have a third quality as well: some conception of how 

men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of 

the dead. 

Abinger Harvest (1936) "Captain Edward Gibbon" 

Yes--oh dear yes--the novel tells a story. 

Aspects of the Novel (1927) ch. 2 

That old lady in the anecdote...was not so much angry as contemptuous.... 

"How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?" 

Aspects of the Novel (1927) ch. 5. Cf. Graham Wallas 222:8 

I am only touching on one aspect of Ulysses: it is of course far more 

than a fantasy--it is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an

inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where 

sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the 

interests of Hell. 

Aspects of the Novel (1927) ch. 6 

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes 

to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. 

Note from commonplace book, in O. Stallybrass (ed.) Aspects of the Novel 

and Related Writings (1974) p. 129 

Like many others who have lived long in a great capital, she had strong 

feelings about the various railway termini. They are our gates to the 

glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and 

sunshine, to them, alas! we return. 

Howards End (1910) ch. 2 

It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most 

sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. 


The music [the scherzo of Beethoven's 5th Symphony] started with a goblin 

walking quietly over the universe, from end to end. Others followed him. 

They were not aggressive creatures; it was that that made them so terrible 

to Helen. They merely observed in passing that there was no such thing as 

splendour or heroism in the world. After the interlude of elephants 

dancing, they returned and made the observation for a second time. Helen 

could not contradict them, for, once at all events, she had felt the same, 

and had seen the reliable walls of youth collapse. Panic and emptiness! 

The goblins were right. 


All men are equal--all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas. 


Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this 

outer life of telegrams and anger. 


She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, 

and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her 

sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, 

and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. 

Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is 

life to either, will die. 

Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...") 

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. 

Howards End (1910) ch. 27 (chapter 41 has "Death destroys a man, but the 

idea of death saves him") 

"I don't think I understand people very well. I only know whether I like 

or dislike them." 

"Then you are an Oriental." 

Passage to India (1924) ch. 2 

The so-called white races are really pinko-grey. 


The echo in a Marabar cave is not like these, it is entirely devoid of

distinction. Whatever is said, the same monotonous noise replies, and 

quivers up and down the walls until it is absorbed into the roof. "Boum" 

is the sound as far as the human alphabet can express it, or "bou-oum," 

or "ou-boum,"--utterly dull. Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the 

squeak of a boot, all produce "boum." 


The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. 

Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to 

murmur, "Pathos, piety, courage--they exist, but are identical, and so is 

filth. Everything exists, nothing has value." 


The inscriptions which the poets of the State had composed were hung where 

they could not be read, or had twitched their drawing-pins out of the 

stucco, and one of them (composed in English to indicate His universality) 

consisted, by an unfortunate slip of the draughtsman, of the words, "God 

si Love." 

God si Love. Is this the first message of India? 


A room with a view. 


The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, 

or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the 

blue sky and the men and women under it. 

Room with a View (1908) ch. 2 

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my 

country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray 

my country. 

Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "What I Believe" 

So Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because 

it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion 

to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that. 

Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "What I Believe" ("Love, the Beloved 

Republic" is a phrase from Swinburne's poem Hertha ) 

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think 

creation's. 

Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Raison d'ˆtre of Criticism" 

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are 

ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than 

we have yet got ourselves. 

Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Books That Influenced Me" 

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. 

Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Gide and George" 

6.38 Bruce Forsyth 

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1928- 

Didn't she [or he or they] do well? 

Catch-phrase in "The Generation Game" on BBC Television, 1973 onwards

Nice to see you--to see you, nice. 

Catch-phrase in "The Generation Game" on BBC Television, 1973 onwards 

I'm in charge. 

Catch-phrase in "Sunday Night at the London Palladium" on ITV, 1958 

onwards 

6.39 Harry Emerson Fosdick 

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1878-1969 

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and 

propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it 

puts in the place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. 

I renounce war and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or 

support another. 

Sermon in New York on Armistice Day 1933, in Secret of Victorious Living 

(1934) p. 97 

6.40 Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-Fran‡ois Thibault) 

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1844-1924 

Dans tout tat polic‚, la richesse est chose sacr‚e; dans les d‚mocraties 

elle est la seule chose sacr‚e. 

In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it 

is the only sacred thing. 

L'Ile des pingouins (Penguin Island, 1908) pt. 6, ch. 2 

Ils [les pauvres] y doivent travailler devant la majestueuse ‚galit‚ des 

lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de 

mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. 

They [the poor] have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the 

law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to 

beg in the streets, and to steal bread. 

Le Lys rouge (The Red Lily, 1894) ch. 7 

Le bon critique est celui qui raconte les aventures de son ƒmeau milieu 

des chefs-d'”uvre. 

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among 

masterpieces. 

La Vie litt‚raire (The Literary Life, 1888) dedicatory letter 

6.41 Georges Franju 

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1912- 

See Jean-Luc Godard (7.34) 

6.42 Sir James George Frazer 

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1854-1941

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his 

mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. 

The Golden Bough (ed. 2, 1900) vol. 1, p. 288 

6.43 Stan Freberg 

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1926- 

It's too loud, man....It's too shrill, man, it's too piercing. 

Banana Boat (Day-O) (1957 record; lines spoken by Peter Leeds) 

Excuse me, you ain't any kin to the snare drummer, are you? 

Yellow Rose of Texas (1955 record; words spoken to a loud banjo-player) 

6.44 Arthur Freed 

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1894-1973 

Singin' in the rain. 

Title of song (1929; music by Nacio Herb Brown) 

6.45 Ralph Freed 

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I like New York in June, 

How about you? 

How About You? (1941 song; music by Burton Lane) 

6.46 Cliff Freeman 

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Where's the beef? 

Advertising slogan for Wendy's Hamburgers in campaign launched 9 Jan. 

1984 (taken up by Walter Mondale in a televised debate with Gary Hart from 

Atlanta, 11 March 1984: "When I hear your new ideas I'm reminded of that 

ad, 'Where's the beef?'") 

6.47 John Freeman 

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1880-1929 

It was the lovely moon--she lifted 

Slowly her white brow among 

Bronze cloud-waves that ebbed and drifted 

Faintly, faintlier afar. 

Stone Trees (1916) "It Was the Lovely Moon" 

6.48 Marilyn French 

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1929- 

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in 

their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that's all they are.

They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes. 

The Women's Room (1977) bk. 5, ch. 19 

6.49 Sigmund Freud 

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1856-1939 

Die Anatomie ist das Schicksal. 

Anatomy is destiny. 

Gesammelte Schriften (Collected Writings, 1924) vol. 5, p. 210 

"Itzig, wohin reit'st Du?" "Weiss ich, frag das Pferd." 

"Itzig, where are you riding to?" "Don't ask me, ask the horse." 

Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 7 July 1898, in Aus den Anf„ngen der 

Psychoanalyse (Origins of Psychoanalysis, 1950) p. 275 

Wir sind so eingerichtet, dass wir nur den Kontrast intensiv geniessen 

k”nnen, den Zustand nur sehr wenig. 

We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast, 

and only very little from a state of things. 

Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and its Discontents, 1930) 

ch. 2 

Vergleiche entscheiden nichts, das ist wahr, aber sie k”nnen machen, dass 

man sich heimischer fhlt. 

Analogies decide nothing, that is true, but they can make one feel more at 

home. 

Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfhrung in die Psychoanalyse (New 

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, 1933) ch. 31 

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet 

been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine 

soul, is "What does a woman want?" 

Letter to Marie Bonaparte, in Ernest Jones Sigmund Freud: Life and Work 

(1955) vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 16 

6.50 Max Frisch 

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1911- 

Diskussion mit Hanna!--ber Technik (laut Hanna) als Kniff, die Welt so 

einzurichten, dass wir sie nicht erleben mssen. 

Discussion with Hanna--about technology (according to Hanna) as the knack 

of so arranging the world that we need not experience it. 

Homo Faber (1957) pt. 2 

6.51 Charles Frohman 

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1860-1915 

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. 

Last words before drowning in the Lusitania, 7 May 1915, in I. F.

Marcosson and D. Frohman Charles Frohman (1916) ch. 19. Cf. J. M. Barrie 

19:9 

6.52 Erich Fromm 

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1900-1980 

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he 

potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own 

personality. 

Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4 

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the 

twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. In the nineteenth 

century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth century it means 

schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became 

slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. 

The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9 

6.53 David Frost 

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1939- 

Hello, good evening, and welcome. 

Catch-phrase in "The Frost Programme" on BBC Television, 1966 onwards 

Seriously, though, he's doing a grand job! 

Catch-phrase in "That Was The Week That Was," on BBC Television, 1962-3 

6.54 Robert Frost 

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1874-1963 

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The 

figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure 

is the same as for love. 

Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes" 

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. 


Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. 

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into 

being. 


They cannot scare me with their empty spaces 

Between stars--on stars where no human race is. 

I have it in me so much nearer home 

To scare myself with my own desert places. 

Further Range (1936) "Desert Places" 

I never dared be radical when young 

For fear it would make me conservative when old. 

Further Range (1936) "Precaution" 

Never ask of money spent

Where the spender thinks it went. 

Nobody was ever meant 

To remember or invent 

What he did with every cent. 

Further Range (1936) "Hardship of Accounting" 

I've given offence by saying that I'd as soon write free verse as play 

tennis with the net down. 

In Edward Lathem Interviews with Robert Frost (1966) p. 203 

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee 

And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. 

In the Clearing (1962) "Cluster of Faith" 

I shall be telling this with a sigh 

Somewhere ages and ages hence: 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- 

I took the one less travelled by, 

And that has made all the difference. 

Mountain Interval (1916) "Road Not Taken" 

I'd like to get away from earth awhile 

And then come back to it and begin over. 

May no fate wilfully misunderstand me 

And half grant what I wish and snatch me away 

Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: 

I don't know where it's likely to go better. 

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, 

And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk 

Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, 

But dipped its top and set me down again. 

That would be good both going and coming back. 

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. 

Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches" 

Some say the world will end in fire, 

Some say in ice. 

From what I've tasted of desire 

I hold with those who favour fire. 

But if it had to perish twice, 

I think I know enough of hate 

To say that for destruction ice 

Is also great 

And would suffice. 

New Hampshire (1923) "Fire and Ice" 

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. 

But I have promises to keep, 

And miles to go before I sleep, 

And miles to go before I sleep. 

New Hampshire (1923) "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" 

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; 

I'll only stop to rake the leaves away 

(And wait to watch the water clear, I may): 

I shan't be gone long.--You come too. 

North of Boston (1914) "The Pasture" 

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, 

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it.

North of Boston (1914) "Mending Wall" 

My apple trees will never get across 

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. 

He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours." 


Before I built a wall I'd ask to know 

What I was walling in or walling out, 

And to whom I was like to give offence. 


And nothing to look backward to with pride, 

And nothing to look forward to with hope. 

North of Boston (1914) "Death of the Hired Man" 

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, 

They have to take you in." 

"I should have called it 

Something you somehow haven't to deserve." 

North of Boston (1914) "Death of the Hired Man" 

Most of the change we think we see in life 

Is due to truths being in and out of favour. 

North of Boston (1914) "Black Cottage" 

Len says one steady pull more ought to do it. 

He says the best way out is always through. 

North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants" 

I've broken Anne of gathering bouquets. 

It's not fair to the child. It can't be helped though: 

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. 

North of Boston (1914) "Self-Seeker" 

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in 

interpretation. 

In Louis Untermeyer Robert Frost: a Backward Look (1964) p. 18 

Asked...whether he would define poetry as "escape" he answered hardily: 

"No. Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat." 

Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18 

I have been one acquainted with the night. 

West-Running Brook (1928) "Acquainted with the Night" 

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. 

Title of poem in Witness Tree (1942) 

The land was ours before we were the land's. 

She was our land more than a hundred years 

Before we were her people. 

Witness Tree (1942) "Gift Outright" 

And were an epitaph to be my story 

I'd have a short one ready for my own. 

I would have written of me on my stone: 

I had a lover's quarrel with the world. 

Witness Tree (1942) "Lesson for Today"

We dance round in a ring and suppose, 

But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. 

Witness Tree (1942) "The Secret Sits" 

6.55 Christopher Fry 

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1907- 

The dark is light enough. 


I travel light; as light, 

That is, as a man can travel who will 

Still carry his body around because 

Of its sentimental value. 

The Lady's not for Burning (1949) act 1 

What after all 

Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. 


What is official 

Is incontestable. It undercuts 

The problematical world and sells us life 

At a discount. 


Where in this small-talking world can I find 

A longitude with no platitude? 


The moon is nothing 

But a circumambulating aphrodisiac 

Divinely subsidized to provoke the world 

Into a rising birth-rate. 


I hear 

A gay modulating anguish, rather like music. 


The Great Bear is looking so geometrical 

One would think that something or other could be proved. 


The best 

Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in 

Look as much like home as we can. 


Try thinking of love, or something. 

Amor vincit insomnia. 

A Sleep of Prisoners (1951) p. 37 

I hope 

I've done nothing so monosyllabic as to cheat, 

A spade is never so merely a spade as the word 

Spade would imply. 

Venus Observed (1950) act 2, sc. 1

I tell you, 

Miss, I knows an undesirable character 

When I see one; I've been one myself for years. 

Venus Observed (1950) act 2, sc. 1 

6.56 Roger Fry 

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1866-1934 

Mr Fry...brought out a screen upon which there was a picture of a circus. 

The interviewer was puzzled by the long waists, bulging necks and short 

legs of the figures. "But how much wit there is in those figures," said Mr 

Fry. "Art is significant deformity." 

Virginia Woolf Roger Fry (1940) ch. 8 

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian. 

In Virginia Woolf Roger Fry (1940) ch. 11 

6.57 R. Buckminster Fuller 

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1895-1983 

Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 

60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system. 

In Gene Youngblood Expanded Cinema (1970) p. 24 

Either war is obsolete or men are. 

In New Yorker 8 Jan. 1966, p. 93 

Here is God's purpose-for 

God, to me, it seems, 

is a verb 

not a noun, 

proper or improper. 

No More Secondhand God (1963) p. 28 (poem written in 1940) 

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, 

and that is that no instruction book came with it. 

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969) ch. 4 

6.58 Alfred Funke 

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1869-? 

Gott strafe England! 

God punish England! 

Schwert und Myrte (Sword and Myrtle, 1914) p. 78 

6.59 Sir David Maxwell Fyfe 

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1900-1967 

See Lord Kilmuir (11.27)

6.60 Will Fyffe 

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1885-1947 

I belong to Glasgow 

Dear Old Glasgow town! 

But what's the matter wi' Glasgow? 

For it's going round and round. 

I'm only a common old working chap, 

As anyone can see, 

But when I get a couple of drinks on a Saturday, 

Glasgow belongs to me. 

I Belong to Glasgow (1920 song) 

6.61 Rose Fyleman 

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1877-1957 

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden! 

Punch 23 May 1917 "Fairies" 

7.0 G 

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7.1 Zsa Zsa Gabor (Sari Gabor) 

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1919- 

You mean apart from my own? 

When asked how many husbands she had had, in K. Edwards I Wish I'd Said 

That (1976) p. 75 

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. 

In Newsweek 28 Mar. 1960, p. 89 

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back. 


7.2 Norman Gaff 

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d. 1988 

A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play. 

Advertising slogan for Mars bar, circa 1960 onwards 

7.3 Hugh Gaitskell 

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1906-1963 

I say this to you: we may lose the vote today [on retaining nuclear 

weapons] and the result may deal this Party a grave blow. It may not be 

possible to prevent it, but I think there are many of us who will not 

accept that this blow need be mortal, who will not believe that such an

end is inevitable. There are some of us, Mr Chairman, who will fight and 

fight and fight again to save the Party we love. We will fight and fight 

and fight again to bring back sanity and honesty and dignity, so that our 

Party with its great past may retain its glory and its greatness. 

Speech at Labour Party Conference, 5 Oct. 1960, in Report of 59th Annual 

Conference p. 201 

It [a European federation] does mean, if this is the idea, the end of 

Britain as an independent European state....It means the end of a thousand 

years of history. 

Speech at Labour Party Conference, 3 Oct. 1962, in Report of 61st Annual 

Conference p. 159 

7.4 J. K. Galbraith 

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1908- 

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political 

faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy 

is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be 

a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural 

parable, the bland lead the bland. 

Affluent Society (1958) ch. 1 

Perhaps the thing most evident of all is how new and varied become the 

problems we must ponder when we break the nexus with the work of Ricardo 

and face the economics of affluence of the world in which we live. It is 

easy to see why the conventional wisdom resists so stoutly such a change. 

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to 

put out on the troubled seas of thought. 

Affluent Society (1958) ch. 11 

In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of 

private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of 

private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway. 

Affluent Society (1958) ch. 18. Cf. Sallust's Catiline 1ii. 22: Habemus 

publice egestatem, privatim opulentiam. We have public poverty and 

private opulence. 

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between 

the disastrous and the unpalatable. 

Letter to President Kennedy, 2 Mar. 1962, in Ambassador's Journal (1969) 

p. 312. Cf. R. A. Butler 43:1 

7.5 John Galsworthy 

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1867-1933 

He [Jolyon] was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing 

ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on 

it as immoral. 

In Chancery (1920) pt. 1, ch. 13 

I s'pose Jolyon's told you something about the young man. From all I can 

learn, he's got no business, no income, and no connection worth speaking 

of; but then, I know nothing--nobody tells me anything. 

Man of Property (1906) pt. 1, ch. 1

7.6 Ray Galton and Alan Simpson 

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Ray Galton 1930- 

Alan Simpson 1929- 

I came in here in all good faith to help my country. I don't mind giving 

a reasonable amount [of blood], but a pint...why that's very nearly an 

armful. I'm sorry. I'm not walking around with an empty arm for anybody. 

The Blood Donor (1961 television programme) in Hancock's Half Hour (1974) 

p. 113 (words spoken by Tony Hancock) 

7.7 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 

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1869-1948 

Recently I saw a film of Gandhi when he came to England in 1930. He 

disembarked in Southampton and on the gangway he was already overwhelmed 

by journalists asking questions. One of them asked, "Mr Gandhi, what do 

you think of modern civilization?" And Mr Gandhi said, "That would be a 

good idea." 

E. F. Schumacher Good Work (1979) ch. 2 

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, 

whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism 

or the holy name of liberty or democracy? 

Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142 

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his 

fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and 

slavery are mental states. 

Non-Violence in Peace and War (1949) vol. 2, ch. 5 

I wanted to avoid violence. Non-violence is the first article of my faith. 

It is also the last article of my creed. 

Speech at Shahi Bag, 18 Mar. 1922, in Young India 23 Mar. 1922 

7.8 Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) 

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1905-1990 

I want to be alone....I just want to be alone. 

Grand Hotel (1932 film; script by William A. Drake) 

I tank I go home. 

On being refused a pay rise by Louis B. Mayer, in Norman Zierold Moguls 

(1969) ch. 9 

7.9 Ed Gardner 

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1905-1963 

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he 

sings. 

In Duffy's Tavern (1940s American radio programme)

7.10 John Nance Garner 

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1868-1967 

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss. 

In O. C. Fisher Cactus Jack (1978) ch. 11 

7.11 Bamber Gascoigne 

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1935- 

Your starter for ten. 

Phrase often used in University Challenge (ITV quiz series, 1962-1987 

7.12 Noel Gay (Richard Moxon Armitage) 

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1898-1954 

I'm leaning on a lamp-post at the corner of the street, 

In case a certain little lady comes by. 

Leaning on a Lamp-Post (1937 song; sung by George Formby in film Father 

Knew Best) 

7.13 Noel Gay and Ralph Butler 

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Noel Gay 1898-1954 

Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run. 


Bang, bang, bang, bang, goes the farmer's gun, 


Run Rabbit Run! (1939 song) 

7.14 Sir Eric Geddes 

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1875-1937 

The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; 

they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed-- until the pips 

squeak. My only doubt is not whether we can squeeze hard enough, but 

whether there is enough juice. 

Speech at Cambridge, 10 Dec. 1918, in Cambridge Daily News 11 Dec. 1918 

7.15 Bob Geldof 

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1954- 

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to 

get laid, to get fame, and to get rich. 

Melody Maker 27 Aug. 1977 

7.16 Bob Geldof and Midge Ure 

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Bob Geldof 1954- 

Feed the world 

Feed the world. 

Feed the world 

Let them know it's Christmas time again. 

Do They Know it's Christmas? (1984 song) 

7.17 King George V 

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1865-1936 

After I am dead, the boy [Edward VIII] will ruin himself in twelve months. 

In Keith Middlemas and John Barnes Baldwin (1969) ch. 34 

I said to your predecessor: "You know what they're all saying, no more 

coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris." The fellow didn't even 

laugh. 

Remark to Anthony Eden, 23 Dec. 1935, following Samuel Hoare's resignation 

as Foreign Secretary on 18 Dec. 1935, in Earl of Avon Facing the 

Dictators (1962) pt. 2, ch. 1 

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail 

among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if 

she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her Colonial 

trade against foreign competitors. 

Speech at Guildhall, 5 Dec. 1901, in Harold Nicolson King George V (1952) 

p. 73 (the speech was reprinted in 1911 with the title "Wake up, England") 

Bugger Bognor. 

Remark said to have been made either in 1929 when the King was informed 

that a deputation of leading citizens was asking that the town should be 

named Bognor Regis because of his convalescence there after a serious 

illness, or on his death-bed in 1936 when one of his doctors sought to 

soothe him with the remark "Cheer up, your Majesty, you will soon be at 

Bognor again." See Kenneth Rose King George V (1983) ch. 9 

The last time I talked to the King [George V] on the morning of his death, 

Monday 20th, he had The Times on his table in front of him opened at the 

"Imperial and Foreign" page and I think his remark to me, "How's the 

Empire?" was prompted by some para. he had read on this page. 

Letter from Lord Wigram, 31 Jan. 1936, in J. E. Wrench Geoffrey Dawson and 

Our Times (1955) ch. 28 

Gentlemen, I am so sorry for keeping you waiting like this. I am unable to 

concentrate. 

Words spoken on his death-bed, reported in memorandum by Lord Wigram, 

20 Jan. 1936, in History Today Dec. 1986 

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates 

of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude 

of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. 

Message read at Terlincthun Cemetery, Boulogne, 13 May 1922, in The Times 

15 May 1922 

7.18 Daniel George (Daniel George Bunting) 

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O Freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name! 

In Sagittarius and D. George Perpetual Pessimist (1963) p. 58 

7.19 George Gershwin 

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1898-1937 

See Ira Gershwin (7.20) 

7.20 Ira Gershwin 

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1896-1983 

A foggy day in London Town 

Had me low and had me down. 

I viewed the morning with alarm, 

The British Museum had lost its charm. 

How long, I wondered, could this thing last? 

But the age of miracles hadn't passed, 

For, suddenly, I saw you there 

And through foggy London town the sun was shining everywhere. 

A Foggy Day (1937 song; music by George Gershwin) 

I got rhythm, 

I got music, 

I got my man 

Who could ask for anything more? 

I Got Rhythm (1930 song; music by George Gershwin) 

Lady, be good! 

Title of musical (1924; music by George Gershwin) 

You like potato and I like po-tah-to, 

You like tomato and I like to-mah-to; 

Potato, po-tah-to, tomato, to-mah-to-- 

Let's call the whole thing off! 

Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (1937 song; music by George Gershwin) 

Holding hands at midnight 

'Neath a starry sky, 

Nice work if you can get it, 

And you can get it if you try. 

Nice Work If You Can Get It (1937 song; music by George Gershwin) 

7.21 Stella Gibbons 

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1902-1989 

Every year, in the fulness o' summer, when the sukebind hangs heavy from 

the wains...'tes the same. And when the spring comes her hour is upon her 

again. 'Tes the hand of Nature and we women cannot escape it. 

Cold Comfort Farm (1932) ch. 5 

When you were very small--so small that the lightest puff of breeze blew 

your little crinoline skirt over your head--you had seen something nasty

in the woodshed. 


Mr Mybug, however, did ask Rennett to marry him. He said that, by god, D. 

H. Lawrence was right when he had said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, 

bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be 

achieved save in the long monotony of marriage? 


7.22 Wolcott Gibbs 

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1902-1958 

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. 

New Yorker 28 Nov. 1936 "Time...Fortune...Life...Luce" (satirizing the 

style of Time magazine) 

Where it will all end, knows God! 

New Yorker 28 Nov. 1936 "Time...Fortune...Life...Luce" (satirizing the 

style of Time magazine) 

7.23 Kahlil Gibran 

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1883-1931 

Your children are not your children. 

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. 

They came through you but not from you 

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. 

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, 

For they have their own thoughts. 

You may house their bodies but not their souls, 

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, 

not even in your dreams. 

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, 

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. 

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent 

forth. 

Prophet (1923) "On Children" 

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with 

distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate 

of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. 

Prophet (1923) "On Work" 

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. 

Sand and Foam (1926) p. 59 

7.24 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 

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1878-1962 

But we, how shall we turn to little things 

And listen to the birds and winds and streams 

Made holy by their dreams, 

Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things? 

Whin (1918) "Lament"

7.25 Andr‚ Gide 

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1869-1951 

M'est avis...que le profit n'est pas toujours ce qui mŠne l'homme; qu'il y 

a des actions d‚sint‚ress‚es....Par d‚sint‚ress‚ j'entends: gratuit. Et 

que le mal, ce que l'on appelle: le mal, peut ˆtre aussi gratuit que le 

bien. 

I believe...that profit is not always what motivates man; that there are 

disinterested actions....By disinterested I mean: gratuitous. And that 

evil acts, what people call evil, can be as gratuitous as good acts. 

Les Caves du Vatican (The Vatican Cellars, 1914) bk. 4, ch. 7 

Hugo--h‚las! 

Hugo--alas! 

Answer when he was asked who was the greatest 19th-century poet, in Claude 

Martin La Maturit‚ d'Andr‚ Gide (1977) p. 502 

7.26 Eric Gill 

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1882-1940 

That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do 

in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him. 

Art-nonsense and Other Essays (1929) "Slavery and Freedom" 

7.27 Terry Gilliam 

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1940- 

See Graham Chapman (3.47) 

7.28 Penelope Gilliatt 

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1933- 

It would be unfair to suggest that one of the most characteristic sounds 

of the English Sunday is the sound of Harold Hobson barking up the wrong 

tree. 

Encore Nov.-Dec. 1959 

Sunday, bloody Sunday. 


7.29 Allen Ginsberg 

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1926- 

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? 

Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again. 

Fall of America (1972) "Graffiti"

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving 

hysterical naked, 

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an 

angry fix, 

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the 

starry dynamo in the machinery of the night. 

Howl (1956) p. 9 

7.30 George Gipp 

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d. 1920 

"Some time, Rock," he said, "when the team's up against it, when things 

are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys--tell them to go in there 

with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper." 

Knut Rockne "Gipp the Great" in Collier's 22 Nov. 1930 

7.31 Jean Giraudoux 

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1882-1944 

Nous savons tous ici que le droit est la plus puissante des ‚coles de 

l'imagination. Jamais poŠte n'a interpr‚t‚ la nature aussi librement qu'un 

juriste la r‚alit‚. 

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the 

imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer 

interprets the truth. 

La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, 

1935) act. 2, sc. 5 

7.32 George Glass 

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1910-1984 

An actor is a kind of a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't 

listening. 

In Bob Thomas Brando (1973) ch. 8 (said to be often quoted by Marlon 

Brando, who is cited as quoting it in Observer 1 Jan. 1956) 

7.33 John A. Glover-Kind 

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d. 1918 

I do like to be beside the seaside. 


7.34 Jean-Luc Godard 

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1930- 

La photographie, c'est la v‚rit‚. Le cin‚ma: la v‚rit‚ vingt-quatre fois 

par seconde. 

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.

Le Petit Soldat (1960 film), in Lettres Fran‡aises 31 Jan. 1963 

"Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end," harrumphed French 

Film Maker Georges Franju at a symposium some years back. "Certainly," 

replied Jean-Luc Godard. "But not necessarily in that order." 

Time 14 Sept. 1981 

7.35 A. D. Godley 

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1856-1925 

What is this that roareth thus? 

Can it be a Motor Bus? 

Yes, the smell and hideous hum 

Indicat Motorem Bum!... 

How shall wretches live like us 

Cincti Bis Motoribus? 

Domine, defende nos 

Contra hos Motores Bos! 

Letter to C. R. L. Fletcher, 10 Jan 1914, in Reliquiae (1926) vol. 1, 

p. 292 

7.36 Joseph Goebbels 

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1897-1945 

Ohne Butter werden wir fertig, aber nicht beispielsweise ohne Kanonen. 

Wenn wir einmal berfallen werden, dann k”nnen wir uns nicht mit Butter, 

sondern nur mit Kanonen verteidigen. 

We can manage without butter but not, for example, without guns. If we 

are attacked we can only defend ourselves with arms not with butter. 

Speech in Berlin, 17 Jan. 1936, in Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung 18 Jan. 

1936. Cf. Hermann Goering 

7.37 Hermann Goering 

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1893-1946 

We have no butter, meine Volksgenossen [my countrymen], but I ask 

you--would you rather have butter or guns? Shall we import lard or metal 

ores? Let me tell you--preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes 

us fat. 

Speech at Hamburg, 1936, in W. Frischauer Goering (1951) ch. 10 

7.38 Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts (Benjamin Eisenberg) 

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Ivan Goff 1910- 

Ben Roberts 1916-1984 

Anyway, Ma, I made it....Top of the world! 

White Heat (1949 film; last lines--spoken by James Cagney) 

7.39 Isaac Goldberg 

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1887-1938 

Diplomacy is to do and say 

The nastiest thing in the nicest way. 

Reflex Oct. 1927, p. 77 

7.40 William Golding 

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1911- 

Lord of the flies. 


7.41 Emma Goldman 

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1869-1940 

Anarchism, then, really, stands for the liberation of the human mind from 

the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the 

dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraints of 

government. 

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) p. 68 

7.42 Barry Goldwater 

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1909- 

I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! 

And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no 

virtue! 

Speech accepting the presidential nomination, 16 July 1964, in New York 

Times 17 July 1964, p. 1 

7.43 Sam Goldwyn (Samuel Goldfish) 

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1882-1974 

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western 

Union. 

In Arthur Marx Goldwyn (1976) ch. 15 

Gentlemen, include me out. 

Said on resigning from the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of 

America, Oct. 1933, in Michael Freedland The Goldwyn Touch (1986) ch. 10 

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on. 

In Alva Johnston The Great Goldwyn (1937) ch. 1 

"I can answer you in two words, 'im-possible'" is almost the cornerstone 

of the Goldwyn legend, but Sam did not say it. It was printed late in 1925 

in a humorous magazine and credited to an anonymous Potash or Perlmutter. 

Alva Johnston The Great Goldwyn (1937) ch. 1 

That's the way with these directors, they're always biting the hand that 

lays the golden egg.

In Alva Johnston The Great Goldwyn (1937) ch. 1 

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. 

In Norman Zierold Moguls (1969) ch. 3 

It is doubtful that Goldwyn made the remark attributed to him by several 

authors: "The reason so many people showed up at his [Louis B. Mayer's] 

funeral was because they wanted to make sure he was dead." In Hollywood 

one hears that sentiment attributed to other moguls at other funerals. 

It's a good story, and the temptation to use it is almost irresistible. 

Goldwyn, however, denies making the remark. He did not go to the funeral, 

was in fact not invited, but his son who was with him on that day says he 

was deeply moved despite the fact that he never liked Mayer. 

Norman Zierold Moguls (1969) ch. 3 

Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay at 

home and see bad television for nothing? 


7.44 Paul Goodman 

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1911-1972 

All men are creative but few are artists. 

Growing up Absurd (1961) ch. 9 

7.45 Mack Gordon 

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1904-1959 

Pardon me boy is that the Chattanooga Choo-choo, 

Track twenty nine, 

Boy you can gimme a shine. 

I can afford to board a Chattanooga Choo-choo, 

I've got my fare and just a trifle to spare. 

You leave the Pennsylvania station 'bout a quarter to four, 

Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore, 

Dinner in the diner nothing could be finer 

Than to have your ham'n eggs in Carolina. 

Chattanooga Choo-choo (1941 song; music by Harry Warren) 

7.46 Stuart Gorrell 

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1902-1963 

Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find, 

Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind. 

Georgia on my Mind (1930 song; music by Hoagy Carmichael) 

7.47 Sir Edmund Gosse 

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1849-1928 

At a lunch at the House of Lords [circa 1906] given by Edmund Gosse...the 

woolly-bearded poet, Sturge Moore...entered late. Gosse, a naughty host, 

whispered in my ear, "A sheep in sheep's clothing."

F. Greenslet Under the Bridge (1943) ch. 10. Cf. Winston Churchill 56:3 

7.48 Lord Gowrie (2nd Earl of Gowrie) 

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1939- 

[œ1,500 a month] is not what people need for living in central London, and 

which I am more or less obliged to do. 

In BBC radio interview, 4 Sept. 1985, in The Times 5 Sept. 1985 (giving 

reason for resigning as Minister for the Arts) 

7.49 Lew Grade (Baron Grade) 

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1906- 

All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great. 


7.50 D. M. Graham 

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1911- 

That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country. 

Motion worded by Graham (the then-Librarian) for debate at the Oxford 

Union, 9 Feb. 1933, and passed by 275 votes to 153 

7.51 Harry Graham 

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1874-1936 

Weep not for little L‚onie 

Abducted by a French Marquis! 

Though loss of honour was a wrench 

Just think how it's improved her French. 

More Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1930) "Compensation" 

Aunt Jane observed, the second time 

She tumbled off a bus, 

"The step is short from the Sublime 

To the Ridiculous." 

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Equanimity" 

Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, 

Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; 

Now, although the room grows chilly, 

I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy. 

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Tender-Heartedness" 

O'er the rugged mountain's brow 

Clara threw the twins she nursed, 

And remarked, "I wonder now 

Which will reach the bottom first?" 

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Calculating Clara" 

"There's been an accident," they said, 

"Your servant's cut in half; he's dead!"

"Indeed!" said Mr Jones, "and please, 

Send me the half that's got my keys." 

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Mr Jones" (poem attributed to 

"G.W.") 

7.52 Kenneth Grahame 

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1859-1932 

The curate faced the laurels--hesitatingly. But Aunt Maria flung herself 

on him. "O Mr Hodgitts!" I heard her cry, "you are brave! for my sake do 

not be rash!" He was not rash. 

The Golden Age (1895) "The Burglars" 

Monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to 

earn their livings. 

The Golden Age (1895) "Lusisti Satis" 

Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing--absolutely nothing--half so 

much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. 

Wind in the Willows (1908) ch. 1 

"There's cold chicken inside it," replied the Rat briefly; 

"coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgerkinssaladfrenchrollscresssandwidgespottedmeatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater--" 


"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad, never offering to move. "The 

poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here 

today--in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities 

jumped--always somebody else's horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!" 


The clever men at Oxford 

Know all that there is to be knowed. 

But they none of them know one half as much 

As intelligent Mr Toad! 


7.53 Bernie Grant 

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1944- 

The police were to blame for what happened on Sunday night and what they 

got was a bloody good hiding. 

Speech as leader of Haringey Council outside Tottenham Town Hall, 8 Oct. 

1985, in The Times 9 Oct. 1985 

7.54 Ethel Watts-Mumford Grant 

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1878-1940 

See Ethel Watts Mumford (13.139) 

7.55 Robert Graves 

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1895-1985 

"What did the mayor do?" 

"I was coming to that." 

Collected Poems (1938) "Welsh Incident" 

Goodbye to all that. 

Title of autobiography (1929) 

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. 

Speech at London School of Economics, 6 Dec. 1963, in Mammon and Black 

Goddess (1965) p. 3 

His eyes are quickened so with grief, 

He can watch a grass or leaf 

Every instant grow; he can 

Clearly through a flint wall see, 

Or watch the startled spirit flee 

From the throat of a dead man. 

Pier-Glass (1921) "Lost Love" 

As you are woman, so be lovely: 

As you are lovely, so be various, 

Merciful as constant, constant as various, 

So be mine, as I yours for ever. 

Poems (1927) "Pygmalion to Galatea" 

Children are dumb to say how hot the day is, 

How hot the scent is of the summer rose. 

Poems (1927) "Cool Web" 

Counting the beats, 

Counting the slow heart beats, 

The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats, 

Wakeful they lie. 

Poems and Satires (1951) "Counting the Beats" 

Far away is close at hand 

Close joined is far away, 

Love shall come at your command 

Yet will not stay. 

Whipperginny (1923) "Song of Contrariety" 

7.56 Hannah Green (Joanne Greenberg) 

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I never promised you a rose garden. 


7.57 Graham Greene 

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1904- 

Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they 

have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. 

I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate. 

Comedians (1966) pt. 3, ch. 4

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage 

a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive. 

Heart of the Matter (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2 

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. 


He [Harris] felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness--the sense that 

that is where we really belong. 


Any victim demands allegiance. 


His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse. 


Our man in Havana. 


There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the 

future in. 

The Power and the Glory (1940) pt. 1, ch. 1 

7.58 Oswald Greene 

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Greene and Bevan's research largely consisted of visiting pubs and asking 

people why they drank Guinness. Again and again they received 

the...reply--they drank Guinness because it was good for them. So 

universal was this idea, Greene decided he need look no further for 

a copyline. "Guinness" the advertisements would simply say "is good for 

you." 

Brian Sibley Book of Guinness Advertising (1985) ch. 4 

7.59 Germaine Greer 

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1939- 

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that 

right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. 

The Times 1 Feb. 1986 

7.60 Hubert Gregg 

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1914- 

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner 

That I love London so, 

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner-- 

That I think of her--Wherever I go. 

I get a funny feeling inside of me-- 

Just walking up and down,-- 

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner 

That I love London Town. 

Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner (1947 song)

7.61 Joyce Grenfell 

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1910-1979 

George--don't do that. 

Recurring line in monologues about a nursery school, from the 1950s, in 

George--Don't Do That (1977) p. 24 

Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor, 

Doing the Military Two-step, as in the days of yore. 

Stately as a Galleon (1978) p. 31 

7.62 Julian Grenfell 

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1888-1915 

The naked earth is warm with Spring, 

And with green grass and bursting trees 

Leans to the sun's kiss glorying, 

And quivers in the sunny breeze; 

And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light 

And a striving evermore for these; 

And he is dead, who will not fight; 

And who dies fighting has increase. 

The fighting man shall from the sun 

Take warmth, and life from the glowing earth. 

Speed with the light-foot winds to run, 

And with the trees to newer birth. 

The Times 28 May 1915 "Into Battle" 

7.63 Clifford Grey 

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1887-1941 

If you were the only girl in the world 

And I were the only boy. 

If You Were the only Girl in the World (song from musical The Bing Boys 

(1916); music by Nat Ayer) 

7.64 Sir Edward Grey (Viscount Grey of Fallodon) 

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1862-1933 

A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week--he thinks 

it was on Monday August 3 [1914]. We were standing at a window of my room 

in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit 

in the space below on which we were looking. My friend recalls that 

I remarked on this with the words: "The lamps are going out all over 

Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." 

25 Years (1925) vol. 2, ch. 18 

7.65 Mervyn Griffith-Jones 

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1909-1979 

You may think that one of the ways in which you can test this book [Lady 

Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence], and test it from the most liberal 

outlook, is to ask yourselves the question when you have read it through: 

"Would you approve of your young sons and daughters--because girls can 

read as well as boys--reading this book?" Is it a book you would have 

lying around in your own house? Is it a book you would even wish your wife 

or your servants to read? 

Speech for the prosecution at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, 

20 Oct. 1960, in The Times 21 Oct. 1960 

7.66 Leon Griffiths 

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'Er indoors. 

Used in ITV television series Minder (1979 onwards) by Arthur Daley 

(played by George Cole) to refer to his wife 

7.67 Jo Grimond (Baron Grimond) 

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1913- 

In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should 

march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my 

troops towards the sound of gunfire. 

Speech at Liberal Party Annual Assembly, 14 Sept. 1963, in Guardian 

16 Sept. 1963 

7.68 Philip Guedalla 

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1889-1944 

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma. 

Masters and Men (1923) "Ministers of State" 

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. 

Supers and Supermen (1920) "Some Historians" 

The cheerful clatter of Sir James Barrie's cans as he went round with the 

milk of human kindness. 

Supers and Supermen (1920) "Some Critics" 

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic 

arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender. 

Supers and Supermen (1920) "Some Critics" 

7.69 R. Guidry 

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See you later, alligator, 

After 'while, crocodile; 

Can't you see you're in my way, now, 

Don't you know you cramp my style? 

See You Later Alligator (1956 song)

7.70 Texas Guinan (Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan) 

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1884-1933 

Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong. 

In New York World-Telegram 21 Mar. 1931, p. 25 (asserts that Guinan used 

the phrase at her night club at least six or seven years previously. The 

saying is also attributed to Jack Osterman and Mae West; it was the title 

of a 1927 song (see Billy Rose and Willie Raskin) and a film of 1931. The 

latter was inspired by Cole Porter's 1929 musical Fifty Million Frenchmen) 

. Cf. Billy Rose and Willie Raskin 

7.71 Nubar Gulbenkian 

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1896-1972 

The best number for a dinner party is two--myself and a dam' good head 

waiter. 

In Daily Telegraph 14 Jan. 1965 

7.72 Thom Gunn 

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1929- 

You know I know you know I know you know. 

Fighting Terms (1954) "Carnal Knowledge" 

7.73 Dorothy Frances Gurney 

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1858-1932 

The kiss of the sun for pardon, 

The song of the birds for mirth, 

One is nearer God's Heart in a garden 

Than anywhere else on earth. 

Poems (1913) "God's Garden" 

7.74 Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) 

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1912-1967 

This land is your land, this land is my land, 

From California to the New York Island. 

From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters 

This land was made for you and me. 

This Land is Your Land (1956 song) 

8.0 H 

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8.1 Earl Haig 

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1861-1928 

D. [the 17th Earl of Derby] is a very weak-minded fellow I am afraid, and, 

like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last person who has sat on 

him! I hear he is called in London "genial Judas"! 

Letter to Lady Haig, 14 Jan. 1918, in R. Blake Private Papers of Douglas 

Haig (1952) ch. 16 

Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. 

With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, 

each one of us must fight on to the end. The safety of our Homes and the 

Freedom of mankind alike depend upon the conduct of each one of us at this 

critical moment. 

Order to British troops, 12 Apr. 1918, in A. Duff Cooper Haig (1936) 

vol. 2, ch. 23 

8.2 Lord Hailsham (Baron Hailsham, Quintin Hogg) 

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1907- 

A great party is not to be brought down because of a scandal by a woman of 

easy virtue and a proved liar. 

In BBC television interview on the Profumo affair, 13 June 1963, in The 

Times 14 June 1963 

If the British public falls for this [the programme of the Labour party], 

I think it will be stark, raving bonkers. 

In press conference at Conservative Central Office, 12 Oct. 1964, in The 

Times 13 Oct. 1964 

8.3 J. B. S. Haldane 

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1892-1964 

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we 

suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many 

attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to 

the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they 

were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and 

earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That 

is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for 

dreaming. 

Possible Worlds and Other Essays (1927) "Possible Worlds" 

From the fact that there are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, 

but only 8,000 species of mammals, he [Haldane] concluded that the 

Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles, and so we 

might be more likely to meet them than any other type of animal on 

a planet which would support life. 

Report of lecture, 7 Apr. 1951, cited in Journal of the British 

Interplanetary Society (1951) vol. 10, p. 156 

8.4 H. R. Haldeman 

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1929- 

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back

in. 

Comment to John Wesley Dean on Watergate affair, 8 Apr. 1973, in Hearings 

Before the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities of US 

Senate: Watergate and Related Activities (1973) vol. 4, p. 1399 

8.5 Sir William Haley 

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1901- 

It is a moral issue. 

Heading of leading article on the Profumo affair, in The Times 11 June 

1963 

8.6 Henry Hall 

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1899-1989 

This is Henry Hall speaking, and tonight is my guest night. 

Catch-phrase on BBC Radio's Guest Night from 1934 (see Henry Hall's Here's 

to the Next Time (1955) ch. 11) 

8.7 Sir Peter Hall 

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1930- 

Sir Peter [Hall] has always maintained that, although nobody appeared to 

want a National Theatre when it was first promulgated, the public has 

consistently supported it with cash at the box office--with "bottoms on 

seats" to use his own earthy phrase. 

Spectator 10 May 1980 (the phrase is often "bums on seats") 

8.8 Margaret Halsey 

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1910- 

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had 

often heard shoes described but had never seen any. 

With Malice Toward Some (1938) pt. 2, p. 107 

Towards people with whom they disagree the English gentry, or at any rate 

that small cross section of them which I have seen, are tranquilly 

good-natured. It is not comme il faut to establish the supremacy of an 

idea by smashing in the faces of all the people who try to contradict it. 

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to 

dinner. 

With Malice Toward Some (1938) pt. 3, p. 208 

8.9 Oscar Hammerstein II 

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1895-1960 

Climb ev'ry mountain, ford ev'ry stream 

Follow ev'ry rainbow, till you find your dream! 

Climb Ev'ry Mountain (1959 song; music by Richard Rodgers)

June is bustin' out all over. 

Title of song (1945; music by Richard Rodgers) 

The last time I saw Paris 

Her heart was warm and gay, 

I heard the laughter of her heart in ev'ry street caf‚. 

The Last Time I saw Paris (1940 song; music by Jerome Kern) 

The corn is as high as an elephant's eye, 

An' it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky. 

Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (1943 song; music by Richard Rodgers) 

Oh, what a beautiful mornin', 

Oh, what a beautiful day! 

I got a beautiful feelin' 

Ev'rything's goin' my way. 

Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (1943 song; music by Richard Rodgers) 

Ol' man river, dat ol' man river, 

He must know sumpin', but don't say nothin', 

He just keeps rollin', 

He keeps on rollin' along. 

Ol' Man River (1927 song; music by Jerome Kern) 

Some enchanted evening, 

You may see a stranger, 

You may see a stranger, 

Across a crowded room. 

Some Enchanted Evening (1949 song; music by Richard Rodgers) 

The hills are alive with the sound of music, 

With songs they have sung for a thousand years. 

The hills fill my heart with the sound of music, 

My heart wants to sing ev'ry song it hears. 

The Sound of Music (1959 song; music by Richard Rodgers) 

There is nothin' like a dame. 


You'll never walk alone. 


8.10 Christopher Hampton 

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1946- 

Masturbation is the thinking man's television. 

Philanthropist (1970) act. 1, sc. 3 

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process 

whereby American girls turn into American women. 

Savages (1974) sc. 16 

8.11 Learned Hand 

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1872-1961 

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

In Bosley Crowther Lion's Share (1957) ch. 7 (referring to Samuel Goldfish 

changing his name to Samuel Goldwyn) 

8.12 Minnie Hanff 

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1880-1942 

High o'er the fence leaps Sunny Jim 

"Force" is the food that raises him. 

Advertising slogan (1903) 

8.13 Brian Hanrahan 

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1949- 

I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid [on Port Stanley in 

the Falkland Islands] but I counted them all out and I counted them all 

back. 

Report broadcast by BBC, 1 May 1982, in Battle for the Falklands (1982) 

p. 21 

8.14 Otto Harbach 

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1873-1963 

When a lovely flame dies, 

Smoke gets in your eyes. 

Smoke Gets in your Eyes (1933 song; music by Jerome Kern) 

8.15 E. Y. 'Yip' Harburg 

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1898-1981 

Once I built a railroad. Now it's done-- 

Brother can you spare a dime? 

Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (1932 song; music by Jay Gorney) 

Somewhere over the rainbow 

Way up high, 

There's a land that I heard of 

Once in a lullaby. 

Over the Rainbow (1939 song; music by Harold Arlen) 

When I'm not near the girl I love, 

I love the girl I'm near. 

When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love (1947 song; music by Burton Lane) 

8.16 Gilbert Harding 

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1907-1960 

Before he [Gilbert Harding] could go to New York he had to get a US visa 

at the American consulate in Toronto. He was called upon to fill in a long 

form with many questions, including "Is it your intention to overthrow the 

Government of the United States by force?" By the time Harding got to that

one he was so irritated that he answered: "Sole purpose of visit." 

W. Reyburn Gilbert Harding (1978) ch. 2 

If, sir, I possessed, as you suggest, the power of conveying unlimited 

sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced 

to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded 

female in a damp basement. 

In S. Grenfell Gilbert Harding by his Friends (1961) p. 118 (reply to Mae 

West's manager who asked "Can't you sound a bit more sexy when you 

interview her?") 

8.17 Warren G. Harding 

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1865-1923 

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but 

normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. 

Speech at Boston, 14 May 1920, in Frederick E. Schortemeier Rededicating 

America (1920) ch. 17 

8.18 Godfrey Harold Hardy 

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1877-1947 

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for 

ugly mathematics. 

A Mathematician's Apology (1940) p. 25 

8.19 Thomas Hardy 

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1840-1928 

A local thing called Christianity. 

Dynasts (1904) pt. 1, act 1, sc. 6 

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor 

reading. 

Dynasts (1904) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 5 

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. 

Hand of Ethelberta (1876) ch. 20 

A piece of paper was found upon the floor, on which was written, in the 

boy's hand, with the bit of lead pencil that he carried: "Done because we 

are too menny." 

Jude the Obscure (1896) pt. 6, ch. 2 

The bower we shrined to Tennyson, 

Gentlemen, 

Is roof-wrecked; damps there drip upon 

Sagged seats, the creeper-nails are rust, 

The spider is sole denizen; 

Even she who voiced those rhymes is dust, 

Gentlemen! 

Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922) "An Ancient to Ancients" 

This is the weather the cuckoo likes,

And so do I; 

When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, 

And nestlings fly: 

And the little brown nightingale bills his best, 

And they sit outside at "The Travellers' Rest," 

And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, 

And citizens dream of the south and west, 

And so do I. 

Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922) "Weathers" 

And meadow rivulets overflow, 

And drops on gate-bars hang in a row, 

And rooks in families homeward go, 

And so do I. 

Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922) "Weathers" 

Life's little ironies. 


"Well, poor soul; she's helpless to hinder that or anything now," answered 

Mother Cuxsom. "And all her shining keys will be took from her, and her 

cupboards opened; and things a' didn't wish seen, anybody will see; and 

her little wishes and ways will all be as nothing!" 

Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) ch. 18 

One grievous failing of Elizabeth's was her occasional pretty and 

picturesque use of dialect words--those terrible marks of the beast to the 

truly genteel. 

Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) ch. 20 

I am the family face; 

Flesh perishes, I live on, 

Projecting trait and trace 

Through time to times anon, 

And leaping from place to place 

Over oblivion. 

Moments of Vision (1917) "Heredity" 

In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy 

And the roof-lamp's oily flame 

Played down on his listless form and face, 

Bewrapt past knowing to what he was going, 

Or whence he came. 

Moments of Vision (1917) "Midnight on the Great Western" 

Only a man harrowing clods 

In a slow silent walk 

With an old horse that stumbles and nods 

Half asleep as they stalk. 

Only thin smoke without flame 

From the heaps of couch-grass; 

Yet this will go onward the same 

Though Dynasties pass. 

Yonder a maid and her wight 

Come whispering by: 

War's annals will cloud into night 

Ere their story die. 

Moments of Vision (1917) "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'"

When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, 

And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, 

Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, 

"He was a man who used to notice such things"? 

Moments of Vision (1917) "Afterwards" 

At once a voice outburst among 

The bleak twigs overhead 

In a full-hearted evensong 

Of joy illimited; 

An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, 

In blast-beruffled plume, 

Had chosen thus to fling his soul 

Upon the growing gloom. 

So little cause for carollings 

Of such ecstatic sound 

Was written on terrestrial things 

Afar or nigh around, 

That I could think there trembled through 

His happy good-night air 

Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew 

And I was unaware. 

Poems of Past and Present (1902) "Darkling Thrush" 

If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. 

Poems of Past and Present (1902) "De Profundis" 

In a solitude of the sea 

Deep from human vanity, 

And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. 

Steel chambers, late the pyres 

Of her salamandrine fires, 

Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres. 

Over the mirrors meant 

To glass the opulent 

The sea-worm crawls--grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent. 

Satires of Circumstance (1914) "Convergence of the Twain" 

The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything. 

Satires of Circumstance (1914) "Convergence of the Twain" 

When I set out for Lyonnesse, 

A hundred miles away, 

The rime was on the spray, 

And starlight lit my lonesomeness 

When I set out for Lyonnesse 

A hundred miles away. 

Satires of Circumstance (1914) p. 20 

What of the faith and fire within us 

Men who march away 

Ere the barn-cocks say 

Night is growing grey, 

To hazards whence no tears can win us; 

What of the faith and fire within us 

Men who march away?

Satires of Circumstance (1914) "Men Who March Away" 

"Justice" was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean 

phrase) had ended his sport with Tess. 

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) ch. 59 

Let me enjoy the earth no less 

Because the all-enacting Might 

That fashioned forth its loveliness 

Had other aims than my delight. 

Time's Laughing Stocks (1909) "Let me Enjoy" 

Yes; quaint and curious war is! 

You shoot a fellow down 

You'd treat if met where any bar is, 

Or help to half-a-crown. 

Time's Laughing Stocks (1909) "Man he Killed" 

Good, but not religious-good. 

Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) ch. 2 

Well, World, you have kept faith with me, 

Kept faith with me; 

Upon the whole you have proved to be 

Much as you said you were. 

Winter Words (1928) "He Never Expected Much" 

"Peace upon earth!" was said. We sing it, 

And pay a million priests to bring it. 

After two thousand years of mass 

We've got as far as poison-gas. 

Winter Words (1928) "Christmas: 1924" 

8.20 Maurice Evan Hare 

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1886-1967 

There once was an old man who said, "Damn! 

It is borne in upon me I am 

An engine that moves 

In determinate grooves, 

I'm not even a bus, I'm a tram." 

Limerick (1905) 

8.21 Robertson Hare 

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1891-1979 

Oh, calamity! 

Catch-phrase, in Yours Indubitably (1956) p. 32 

8.22 W. F. Hargreaves 

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1846-1919 

I'm Burlington Bertie 

I rise at ten thirty and saunter along like a toff,

I walk down the Strand with my gloves on my hand, 

Then I walk down again with them off. 

Burlington Bertie from Bow (1915 song) 

I acted so tragic the house rose like magic, 

The audience yelled "You're sublime." 

They made me a present of Mornington Crescent 

They threw it a brick at a time. 

The Night I Appeared as Macbeth (1922 song) 

8.23 Lord Harlech (David Ormsby Gore) 

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1918-1985 

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honoured by historians more 

for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she 

acquired it. 

In New York Times 28 Oct. 1962, sec. 4, p. 11 

8.24 Jimmy Harper, Will E. Haines, and Tommie Connor 

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The biggest aspidistra in the world. 

Title of song (1938; popularized by Gracie Fields) 

8.25 Frank Harris (James Thomas Harris) 

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1856-1931 

Christ went deeper than I have, but I've had a wider range of experience. 

In conversation with Hugh Kingsmill, in Hesketh Pearson and Malcolm 

Muggeridge About Kingsmill (1951) ch. 3 

Sex is the gateway to life. 

In Enid Bagnold Autobiography (1969) ch. 4 

8.26 H. H. Harris 

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Bovril....Prevents that sinking feeling. 

Advertising slogan (1920) 

8.27 Lorenz Hart 

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1895-1943 

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered. 


When love congeals 

It soon reveals 

The faint aroma of performing seals, 

The double crossing of a pair of heels. 

I wish I were in love again! 

I Wish I Were in Love Again (1937 song; music by Richard Rodgers)

I get too hungry for dinner at eight. 

I like the theatre, but never come late. 

I never bother with people I hate. 

That's why the lady is a tramp. 

The Lady is a Tramp (1937 song; music by Richard Rodgers) 

On the first of May 

It is moving day; 

Spring is here, so blow your job-- 

Throw your job away; 

Now's the time to trust 

To your wanderlust. 

In the city's dust you wait. 

Must you wait? 

Just you wait: 

In a mountain greenery 

Where God paints the scenery-- 

Just two crazy people together; 

While you love your lover, let 

Blue skies be your coverlet-- 

When it rains we'll laugh at the weather. 

Mountain Greenery (1926 song; music by Richard Rodgers) 

8.28 Moss Hart and George Kaufman 

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Moss Hart 1904-1961 

George Kaufman 1889-1961 

You can't take it with you. 


8.29 L. P. Hartley 

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1895-1972 

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. 

The Go-Between (1953) prologue 

8.30 F. W. Harvey 

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1888-? 

From troubles of the world 

I turn to ducks 

Beautiful comical things. 

Ducks and Other Verses (1919) "Ducks" 

8.31 Minnie Louise Haskins 

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1875-1957 

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light 

that I may tread safely into the unknown."

And he replied: 

"Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That 

shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way." 

Desert (1908) "God Knows" 

8.32 Lord Haw-Haw 

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See William Joyce (10.28) 

8.33 Ian Hay (John Hay Beith) 

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1876-1952 

What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha? 

Housemaster (1938) act 3 

8.34 J. Milton Hayes 

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1884-1940 

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, 

There's a little marble cross below the town, 

There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, 

And the Yellow God forever gazes down. 

The Green Eye of the Yellow God (1911) 

8.35 Lee Hazlewood 

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1929- 

These boots are made for walkin'. 


8.36 Denis Healey 

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1917- 

That part of his [Sir Geoffrey Howe's] speech was rather like being 

savaged by a dead sheep. 


I plan to be the Gromyko of the Labour Party. 

In Sunday Times 5 Feb. 1984 

I warn you there are going to be howls of anguish from the 80,000 people 

who are rich enough to pay over 75% [tax] on the last slice of their 

income. 

Speech at Labour Party Conference, 1 Oct. 1973, in The Times 2 Oct. 1973 

8.37 Seamus Heaney 

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1939- 

Between my finger and my thumb 

The squat pen rests. 

I'll dig with it. 

Death of a Naturalist (1966) "Digging" 

All agog at the plasterer on his ladder 

Skimming our gable and writing our name there 

With his trowel point, letter by strange letter. 

The Haw Lantern (1987) "Alphabets" 

Who would connive 

in civilised outrage 

yet understand the exact 

and tribal, intimate revenge. 

North (1975) "Punishment" 

The famous 

Northern reticence, the tight gag of place 

And times: yes, yes. Of the "wee six" I sing 

Where to be saved you only must save face 

And whatever you say, you say nothing. 

North (1975) "Whatever You Say Say Nothing" 

Is there a life before death? That's chalked up 

In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain, 

Coherent miseries, a bite and sup, 

We hug our little destiny again. 

North (1975) "Whatever You Say Say Nothing" 

Don't be surprised 

If I demur, for, be advised 

My passport's green. 

No glass of ours was ever raised 

To toast The Queen. 

Open Letter (Field Day pamphlet no. 2, 1983) p. 9 (rebuking the editors 

of The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry for including his work) 

8.38 Edward Heath 

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1916- 

It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism. 

Hansard 15 May 1973, col. 1243 (on the Lonrho affair) 

The alternative is to break into the wage/price spiral by acting directly 

to reduce prices. This can be done by reducing those taxes which bear 

directly on prices and costs, such as the selective employment tax, and by 

taking a firm grip on public sector prices and charges such as coal, 

steel, gas, electricity, transport charges and postal charges. This 

would, at a stroke, reduce the rise in prices, increase production and 

reduce unemployment. 

Press release, 16 June 1970, in The Times 17 June 1970 

8.39 Fred Heatherton 

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I've got a loverly bunch of cocoanuts, 

There they are a-standing in a row, 

Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head, 

Give 'em a twist, a flick of the wrist, 

That's what the showman said. 

I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts (1944 song; revised version 1948) 

8.40 Robert A. Heinlein 

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1907- 

"Oh, 'tanstaafl.' Means 'There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.' And 

isn't," I added, pointing to a FREE LUNCH sign across room, "or these 

drinks would cost half as much. Was reminding her that anything free 

costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless." 

Moon is Harsh Mistress (1966) ch. 11 

8.41 Werner Heisenberg 

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1901-1976 

Ein Fachmann ist ein Mann, der einige der gr”bsten Fehler kennt, die man 

in dem betreffenden Fach machen kann und der sie deshalb zu vermeiden 

versteht. 

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made 

in his subject and how to avoid them. 

Der Teil und das Ganze ("The Part and the Whole," 1969) ch. 17 

(translated by A. J. Pomerans in 1971 as Physics and Beyond) 

8.42 Joseph Heller 

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1923- 

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that 

a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and 

immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be 

grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no 

longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to 

fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly 

them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't 

want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the 

absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful 

whistle. 

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. 

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed. 

Catch-22 (1961) ch. 5 (the first chapter of this novel was published as 

Catch-18 in New World Writing (1955) No. 7--see Kiley and MacDonald 

"Catch-22" Casebook (1973) 294) 

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have 

mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. 

Catch-22 (1961) ch. 9. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 489:14 

Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it

necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth-decay in His 

divine system of creation? 

Catch-22 (1961) ch. 18 

"You put so much stock in winning wars," the grubby iniquitous old man 

scoffed. "The real trick lies in losing wars, and in knowing which wars 

can be lost. Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and just see how 

splendidly we've done nonetheless. France wins wars and is in a continual 

state of crisis. Germany loses and prospers. Look at our own recent 

history. Italy won a war in Ethiopia and promptly stumbled into serious 

trouble. Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped 

start a world war we hadn't a chance of winning. But now that we are 

losing again, everything has taken a turn for the better, and we will 

certainly come out on top again if we succeed in being defeated." 

Catch-22 (1961) ch. 23 

8.43 Lillian Hellman 

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1905-1984 

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. 

The Little Foxes (1939) act 1 

I do not like subversion or disloyalty in any form and if I had ever seen 

any I would have considered it my duty to have reported it to the proper 

authorities. But to hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in 

order to save myself is to me inhuman and indecent and dishonorable. 

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even 

though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person 

and could have no comfortable place in any political group. 

Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952, in US Congress Committee Hearing on 

Un-American Activities (1952) pt. 8, p. 3546 

8.44 Sir Robert Helpmann 

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1909-1986 

No. You see there are portions of the human anatomy which would keep 

swinging after the music had finished. 

In Elizabeth Salter Helpmann (1978) ch. 21 [reply to question on whether 

the fashion for nudity would extend to dance] 

8.45 Ernest Hemingway 

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1899-1961 

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really 

happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all 

that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and 

the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places 

and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to 

people, then you are a writer. 

Esquire Dec. 1934 "Old Newsman Writes" 

"Just kiss me." 

She kissed him on the cheek. 

"No."

"Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go." 

"Look, turn thy head" and then their mouths were tight together. 

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) ch. 7 

He said, "Maria...I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving 

thee." 

"Oh," she said. "I die each time. Do you not die?" 

"No. Almost. But did thee feel the earth move?" 

"Yes. As I died. Put thy arm around me, please." 

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) ch. 13 

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 

Huckleberry Finn. 

Green Hills of Africa (1935) ch. 1 

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of 

ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. 

Men at War (1942) 

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then 

wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is 

a movable feast. 

Movable Feast (1964) epigraph 

"Exactly what do you mean by 'guts'?" "I mean," Ernest Hemingway said, 

"grace under pressure." 

Interview with Dorothy Parker, in New Yorker 30 Nov. 1929 

I started out very quiet and I beat Mr Turgenev. Then I trained hard and 

I beat Mr de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr Stendhal, and 

I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any 

ring with Mr Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better. 

New Yorker 13 May 1950 

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. 

The Old Man and the Sea (1952) p. 103 

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit 

detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. 

Paris Review Spring 1958 

The sun also rises. 


Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than 

sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the 

cuckoo clock style of architecture. 

Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest 

Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20) 

8.46 Arthur W. D. Henley 

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Nobody loves a fairy when she's forty. 


8.47 O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 

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1862-1910 

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles 

predominating. 

Four Million (1906) "Gift of the Magi" 

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never 

marry. 

Four Million (1906) "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" 

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are. 

Gentle Grafter (1908) "Octopus Marooned" 

Turn up the lights; I don't want to go home in the dark. 

Last words, quoting 1907 song by Harry Williams "I'm afraid to come home 

in the dark," in Charles Alphonso Smith O. Henry Biography (1916) ch. 9 

8.48 A. P. Herbert 

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1890-1971 

Other people's babies-- 

That's my life! 

Mother to dozens, 

And nobody's wife. 

Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Other People's Babies" (also a 1934 song, 

with music by Vivian Ellis) 

Let's find out what everyone is doing, 

And then stop everyone from doing it. 

Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Let's Stop Somebody from Doing Something!" 

As my poor father used to say 

In 1863, 

Once people start on all this Art 

Goodbye, moralitee! 

And what my father used to say 

Is good enough for me. 

Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person" 

Holy deadlock. 


Don't tell my mother I'm living in sin, 

Don't let the old folks know. 

Laughing Ann (1925) "Don't Tell My Mother I'm Living in Sin" 

Not huffy, or stuffy, not tiny or tall, 

But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all. 

Plain Jane (1927) "I Like them Fluffy" 

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, 

For mother will be there. 

She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" 

The Farmer will never be happy again; 

He carries his heart in his boots; 

For either the rain is destroying his grain

Or the drought is destroying his roots. 

Tinker Tailor (1922) "The Farmer" 

This high official, all allow, 

Is grossly overpaid; 

There wasn't any Board, and now 

There isn't any Trade. 

Tinker Tailor (1922) "The President of the Board of Trade" 

Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: 

The seas roll over but the rocks remain. 

Tough at the Top (circa 1949 operetta), in A.P.H. (1970) ch. 7 

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical 

figure--the figure of "The Reasonable Man." 

Uncommon Law (1935) "The Reasonable Man" 

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no 

reference to fun in any Act of Parliament. 

Uncommon Law (1935) "Is it a Free Country?" 

The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time. 

Uncommon Law (1935) "Is Marriage Lawful?" 

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. 

Uncommon Law (1935) "Fox-Hunting Fun" 

Milord, in that case an Act of God was defined as "something which no 

reasonable man could have expected." 

Uncommon Law (1935) "Act of God" 

8.49 Oliver Herford 

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1863-1935 

"Perhaps it is only a whim," said the Queen. The King laughed mirthlessly. 

"King Barumph has a whim of iron!" 

Excuse it Please (1929) "Impossible Pudding" 

See also Ethel Watts Mumford (13.139) 

8.50 Jerry Herman 

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1933- 

Hello, Dolly, well, hello Dolly 

It's so nice to have you back where you belong. 

Hello, Dolly (1964 song from the musical Hello, Dolly) 

8.51 June Hershey 

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Deep in the heart of Texas. 

Title of song (1941; music by Don Swander) 

8.52 Hermann Hesse 

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1877-1962 

Wenn wir einen Menschen hassen, so hassen wir in seinem Bild etwas, was in 

uns selber sisst. Was nicht in uns selber ist, das regt uns nicht auf. 

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. 

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. 

Demian (1919) ch. 6 

Auf Kosten der Intensit„t also erreicht er [der Brger ] Erhaltung und 

Sicherheit, statt Gottbesessenheit erntet er Gewissensruhe, statt Lust 

Behagen, statt Freiheit Bequemlichkeit, statt t”dlicher Glut eine 

angenehme Temperatur. 

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and 

a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. 

Der Steppenwolf (1927) "Tractat vom Steppenwolf" (Treatise on the 

Steppenwolf) 

8.53 Gordon Hewart (Viscount Hewart) 

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1870-1943 

A long line of cases shows that it is not merely of some importance, but 

is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but 

should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done. 

Rex v Sussex Justices, 9 Nov. 1923, in Law Reports King's Bench Division 

(1924) vol. 1, p. 259 

8.54 Patricia Hewitt 

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1948- 

It is obvious from our polling, as well as from the doorstep, that the 

"London Effect" is now very noticeable. The "loony Labour left" is taking 

its toll; the gays and lesbians issue is costing us dear among the 

pensioners, and fear of extremism and higher rates/taxes is particularly 

prominent in the Greater London Council area. 

Letter to Frank Dobson and other Labour leaders, in The Times 6 Mar. 1987 

8.55 Du Bose Heyward and Ira Gershwin 

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Du Bose Heyward 1885-1940 

Ira Gershwin 1896-1983 

It ain't necessarily so. 

Title of song (1935; music by George Gershwin) 

Summer time an' the livin' is easy. 

Summer Time (1935 song; music by George Gershwin) 

8.56 Sir Seymour Hicks 

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1871-1949

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go 

out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young 

the policemen look. 

In C. R. D. Pulling They Were Singing (1952) ch. 7 

8.57 Jack Higgins (Henry Patterson) 

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1929- 

The eagle has landed. 


8.58 Joe Hill 

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1879-1915 

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in 

mourning--organize. 

Farewell telegram to Bill Haywood, 18 Nov. 1915, before his death by 

firing squad, in Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune 19 Nov. 1915 

You will eat, bye and bye, 

In that glorious land above the sky; 

Work and pray, live on hay, 

You'll get pie in the sky when you die. 

Songs of the Workers (Industrial Workers of the World, 1911) "Preacher 

and the Slave" 

8.59 Pattie S. Hill 

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1868-1946 

Happy birthday to you. 

Title of song (1935; music by Mildred J. Hill) 

8.60 Sir Edmund Hillary 

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1919- 

[After the ascent of Everest] George [Lowe] met us with a mug of soup just 

above camp, and seeing his stalwart frame and cheerful face reminded me 

how fond of him I was. My comment was not specially prepared for public 

consumption but for George...."Well, we knocked the bastard off!" I told 

him and he nodded with pleasure...."Thought you must have!" 

Nothing Venture (1975) ch. 10 

8.61 Fred Hillebrand 

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1893- 

Home James, and don't spare the horses. 


8.62 Lady Hillingdon

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1857-1940 

I am happy now that Charles calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of 

old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week and when I hear his steps 

outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs and 

think of England. 

Journal 1912, in J. Gathorne-Hardy Rise and Fall of the British Nanny 

(1972) ch. 3 

8.63 James Hilton 

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1900-1954 

Nothing really wrong with him--only anno domini, but that's the most fatal 

complaint of all, in the end. 

Goodbye, Mr Chips (1934) ch. 1 

8.64 Alfred Hitchcock 

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1899-1980 

Television has brought back murder into the home--where it belongs. 


Actors are cattle. 

In Saturday Evening Post 22 May 1943, p. 56 

8.65 Adolf Hitler 

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1889-1945 

Die neue and diesmal blutige Erhebung--die Nacht der langen Messer, wie 

man sie grauenvoll bezeichnete--meinem eigenen Sinn entspr„che. 

The new, and this time bloody, rising--"The Night of the Long Knives" was 

their ghastly name for it--was exactly what I myself desired. 

Speech to the Reichstag, 13 July 1934, in Max Domarus (ed.) Hitler: Reden 

und Proklamationen 1932-1945 (1962) p. 418 

Ich gehe mit traumwandlerischer Sicherheit den Weg, den mich die Vorsehung 

gehen heisst. 

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker. 

Speech in Munich, 15 Mar. 1936, in Max Domarus (ed.) Hitler: Reden und 

Proklamationen 1932-1945 (1962) p. 606 

Und nun steht vor uns das letzte Problem, das gel”stwerden muss und gel”st 

werden wird! Es [das Sudetenland] ist die letzte territoriale Forderung, 

die ich Europa zu stellen habe, aber es ist die Forderung, von der ich 

nicht abgehe, und die ich, so Gott will, erfllen werde. 

And now before us stands the last problem that must be solved and will be 

solved. It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim which I have to 

make in Europe, but it is the claim from which I will not recede and 

which, God-willing, I will make good.

Speech at Berlin Sportpalast, 26 Sept. 1938, in Max Domarus (ed.) Hitler: 

Reden und Proklamationen 1932-1945 (1962) p. 927 

In bezug auf das sudetendeutsche Problem meine Geduld jetzt zu Ende ist! 

With regard to the problem of the Sudeten Germans, my patience is now at 

an end! 

Speech at Berlin Sportpalast, 26 Sept. 1938, in Max Domarus (ed.) Hitler: 

Reden und Proklamationen 1932-1945 (1962) p. 932 

Brennt Paris? 

Is Paris burning? 

Question, 25 Aug. 1944, in Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre Is Paris 

Burning? (1965) ch. 5 

Die breite Masse eines Volkes...einer grossen Lgeleichter zum Opfer f„llt 

als einer kleinen. 

The broad mass of a nation...will more easily fall victim to a big lie 

than to a small one. 

Mein Kampf (My Struggle, 1925) vol. 1, ch. 10 

8.66 Ralph Hodgson 

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1871-1962 

Time, you old gipsy man, 

Will you not stay, 

Put up your caravan 

Just for one day? 

Poems (1917) "Time, You Old Gipsy Man" 

I climbed a hill as light fell short, 

And rooks came home in scramble sort, 

And filled the trees and flapped and fought 

And sang themselves to sleep. 

Poems (1917) "Song of Honour" 

I stood and stared; the sky was lit, 

The sky was stars all over it, 

I stood, I knew not why, 

Without a wish, without a will, 

I stood upon that silent hill 

And stared into the sky until 

My eyes were blind with stars and still 

I stared into the sky. 


When stately ships are twirled and spun 

Like whipping tops and help there's none 

And mighty ships ten thousand ton 

Go down like lumps of lead. 


'Twould ring the bells of Heaven 

The wildest peal for years, 

If Parson lost his senses 

And people came to theirs,

And he and they together 

Knelt down with angry prayers 

For tamed and shabby tigers 

And dancing dogs and bears, 

And wretched, blind, pit ponies, 

And little hunted hares. 

Poems (1917) "Bells of Heaven" 

See an old unhappy bull, 

Sick in soul and body both, 

Slouching in the undergrowth 

Of the forest beautiful, 

Banished from the herd he led, 

Bulls and cows a thousand head. 

Poems (1917) "The Bull" 

Reason has moons, but moons not hers, 

Lie mirror'd on her sea, 

Confounding her astronomers, 

But, O! delighting me. 

Poems (1917) "Reason Has Moons" 

8.67 'Red' Hodgson 

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I blow through here; 

the music goes 'round and around. 

Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, and it comes up here. 

Music Goes 'round and Around (1935 song; music by Edward Farley and 

Michael Riley) 

8.68 Eric Hoffer 

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1902-1983 

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour. 

New York Times Magazine 15 Feb. 1959, p. 12 

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each 

other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of 

a protest. 

Passionate State of Mind (1955) p. 21 

8.69 Al Hoffman and Dick Manning 

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Al Hoffman 1902-1960 

Dick Manning 1912- 

Takes two to tango. 


8.70 Gerard Hoffnung 

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1925-1959

Standing among savage scenery, the hotel offers stupendous revelations. 

There is a French widow in every bedroom, affording delightful prospects. 

Speech at Oxford Union, 4 Dec. 1958 (supposedly quoting a letter from 

a Tyrolean landlord) 

8.71 Lancelot Hogben 

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1895-1975 

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The 

spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men 

who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly. 

Science for the Citizen (1938) epilogue 

8.72 Billie Holiday (Eleanor Fagan) and Arthur Herzog Jr. 

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Billie Holiday 1915-1959 

Arthur Herzog Jr. 1901-1983 

Them that's got shall get, 

Them that's not shall lose, 

So the Bible said, 

And it still is news; 

Mama may have, papa may have, 

But God bless the child that's got his own! 

That's got his own. 

God Bless the Child (1941 song) 

8.73 Stanley Holloway 

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1890-1982 

Sam, Sam, pick up tha' musket. 

Pick Up Tha' Musket (1930 recorded monologue) 

8.74 John H. Holmes 

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1879-1964 

This, now, is the judgement of our scientific age--the third reaction of 

man upon the universe! This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it 

friendly. It is simply indifferent. 

The Sensible Man's View of Religion (1932) ch. 4 

8.75 Lord Home (Baron Home of the Hirsel, formerly Sir Alec Douglas-Home) 

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1903- 

As far as the fourteenth earl is concerned, I suppose Mr [Harold] Wilson, 

when you come to think of it, is the fourteenth Mr Wilson. 

Television interview, 21 Oct. 1963, in Daily Telegraph 22 Oct. 1963 

(replying to question on how he was going to meet attacks by the Labour 

Party on his then position as a "fourteenth Earl, a reactionary, and an 

out-of-date figure")

When I have to read economic documents I have to have a box of matches and 

start moving them into position to simplify and illustrate the points to 

myself. 


8.76 Arthur Honegger 

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1892-1955 

Il est certain que la premiŠre qualit‚ d'un compositeur, c'est d'ˆtre 

mort. 

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. 

Je suis compositeur (I am a Composer, 1951) p. 16 

8.77 Herbert Hoover 

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1874-1964 

Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die. And it is 

youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that 

are the aftermath of war. 

Speech at the Republican National Convention, Chicago, 27 June 1944, in 

Addresses upon the American Road (1946) p. 254. 

Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic 

experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose (i.e. 18th 

Amendment on Prohibition). 

Letter to Senator W. H. Borah, 23 Feb. 1928, in Claudius O. Johnson Borah 

of Idaho (1936) ch. 21 

When the war closed...we were challenged with a peace-time choice between 

the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of 

diametrically opposed doctrines--doctrines of paternalism and state 

socialism. 

Speech in New York City, 22 Oct. 1928, in New Day (1928) p. 154 

Another proposal of our opponents which would wholly alter our American 

system of life is to reduce the protective tariff to a competitive tariff 

for revenue....The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities, 

a thousand towns; the weeds will overrun the fields of millions of farms 

if that protection be taken away. 

Speech, 31 Oct. 1932, in State Papers of Herbert Hoover (1934) vol. 2, 

p. 418 

8.78 Anthony Hope (Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins) 

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1863-1933 

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some 

day, want something you probably won't want. 

Dolly Dialogues (1894) no. 12 

"You oughtn't to yield to temptation." "Well, somebody must, or the thing 

becomes absurd," said I. 

Dolly Dialogues (1894) no. 14

"Bourgeois," I observed, "is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what 

is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent." "But it's not 

a nice thing to be, all the same," said Dolly, who is impervious to the 

most penetrating remark. 


I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my 

conversation. 


Anthony Hope--a friend, a true friend, yet pledged always to his own and 

far more Attic interpretation of life--sat there [at the first night of J. 

M. Barrie's Peter Pan in 1904] looking primmer and drier at every 

extravagance, and more and more as if, in his opinion, children should be 

kept in their right place. When he spoke, his comment was also far more 

succinct. "Oh, for an hour of Herod!" he said. 

Denis Mackail Story of JMB (1941) ch. 17 

8.79 Bob Hope 

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1903- 

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't 

need it. 

In Alan Harrington Life in the Crystal Palace (1959) "The Tyranny of 

Farms" 

8.80 Francis Hope 

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1938-1974 

And scribbled lines like fallen hopes 

On backs of tattered envelopes. 

Instead of a Poet and Other Poems (1965) "Instead of a Poet" 

8.81 Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson) 

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1865-1904 

Less than the dust, beneath thy Chariot wheel, 

Less than the rust, that never stained thy Sword, 

Less than the trust thou hast in me, Oh, Lord, 

Even less than these! 

Less than the weed, that grows beside thy door, 

Less than the speed, of hours, spent far from thee, 

Less than the need thou hast in life of me. 

Even less am I. 

Garden of Kama (1901) "Less than the Dust" 

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, 

Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell? 

...Pale hands, pink tipped, like lotus buds that float 

On those cool waters where we used to dwell, 

I would have rather felt you round my throat 

Crushing out life; than waving me farewell! 

Garden of Kama (1901) "Kashmiri Song"

8.82 Zilphia Horton 

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1907-1957 

See "Anonymous" in topic 1.43 

8.83 A. E. Housman 

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1859-1936 

Mud's sister, not himself, adorns my legs. 

Fragment of a Greek Tragedy (Bromsgrovian vol. 2, no. 5, 1883) in Alfred 

Edward Housman, the Housman Memorial Supplement of the Bromsgrovian (1936 

) 

This great College, of this ancient University, has seen some strange 

sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson sober. And here am I, 

a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar than Wordsworth, betwixt 

and between. 

Speech at Trinity College, Cambridge, in G. K. Chesterton Autobiography 

(1936) ch. 12 

If I were the Prince of Peace, I would choose a less provocative 

Ambassador. 

In Alan Wood Bertrand Russell: Passionate Sceptic (1957) p. 103 

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists? 

And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? 

And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? 

Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair. 

'Tis a shame to human nature, such a head of hair as his; 

In the good old time 'twas hanging for the colour that it is; 

Though hanging isn't bad enough and flaying would be fair 

For the nameless and abominable colour of his hair. 

Collected Poems (1939) "Additional Poems" no. 18 

That is indeed very good. I shall have to repeat that on the Golden Floor! 

In Daily Telegraph 21 Feb. 1984 (said to his physician who told him 

a risqu‚ story to cheer him up just before he died) 

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; 

He has devoured the infant child. 

The infant child is not aware 

He has been eaten by the bear. 

Infant Innocence in Oxford Book of Light Verse (1938) p. 489 

Nous n'irons plus aux bois, 

Les lauriers sont coup‚s. 

We'll go to the woods no more, 

The laurels all are cut. 

Translation of nursery rhyme in Last Poems (1922) introductory 

Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May. 

Last Poems (1922) no. 9

May will be fine next year as like as not: 

Oh, ay, but then we shall be twenty-four. 

Last Poems (1922) no. 9 

We for a certainty are not the first 

Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled 

Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed 

Whatever brute and blackguard made the world. 


The troubles of our proud and angry dust 

Are from eternity, and shall not fail. 

Bear them we can, and if we can we must. 

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. 


But men at whiles are sober 

And think by fits and starts, 

And if they think, they fasten 

Their hands upon their hearts. 


The laws of God, the laws of man, 

He may keep that will and can; 

Not I: let God and man decree 

Laws for themselves and not for me; 

And if my ways are not as theirs 

Let them mind their own affairs. 


And how am I to face the odds 

Of man's bedevilment and God's? 

I, a stranger and afraid 

In a world I never made. 


The candles burn their sockets, 

The blinds let through the day, 

The young man feels his pockets 

And wonders what's to pay. 


To think that two and two are four 

And neither five nor three 

The heart of man has long been sore 

And long 'tis like to be. 


These, in the day when heaven was falling, 

The hour when earth's foundations fled, 

Followed their mercenary calling 

And took their wages and are dead. 

Their shoulders held the sky suspended; 

They stood, and earth's foundations stay; 

What God abandoned, these defended, 

And saved the sum of things for pay. 


For nature, heartless, witless nature,

Will neither care nor know 

What stranger's feet may find the meadow 

And trespass there and go, 

Nor ask amid the dews of morning 

If they are mine or no. 


Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch 

over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my 

skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act....The seat of this 

sensation is the pit of the stomach. 

Lecture at Cambridge, 9 May 1933, The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933) 

p. 47 

The rainy Pleiads wester, 

Orion plunges prone, 

The stroke of midnight ceases, 

And I lie down alone. 

More Poems (1936) no. 11 

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; 

But young men think it is, and we were young. 

More Poems (1936) no. 36 

Good-night. Ensured release 

Imperishable peace, 

Have these for yours, 

While earth's foundations stand 

And sky and sea and land 

And heaven endures. 

More Poems (1936) no. 48 "Alta Quies" 

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now 

Is hung with bloom along the bough, 

And stands about the woodland ride 

Wearing white for Eastertide. 

Now, of my threescore years and ten, 

Twenty will not come again, 

And take from seventy springs a score, 

It only leaves me fifty more. 

And since to look at things in bloom 

Fifty springs are little room, 

About the woodlands I will go 

To see the cherry hung with snow. 

Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 2 

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; 

Breath's a ware that will not keep. 

Up, lad: when the journey's over 

There'll be time enough to sleep. 


And naked to the hangman's noose 

The morning clocks will ring 

A neck God made for other use 

Than strangling in a string. 

Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 9

When I was one-and-twenty 

I heard a wise man say, 

"Give crowns and pounds and guineas 

But not your heart away; 

Give pearls away and rubies, 

But keep your fancy free." 

But I was one-and-twenty, 

No use to talk to me. 


Oh, when I was in love with you, 

Then I was clean and brave, 

And miles around the wonder grew 

How well I did behave. 

And now the fancy passes by, 

And nothing will remain, 

And miles around they'll say that I 

Am quite myself again. 


In summertime on Bredon 

The bells they sound so clear; 

Round both the shires they ring them 

In steeples far and near, 

A happy noise to hear. 

Here of a Sunday morning 

My love and I would lie, 

And see the coloured counties, 

And hear the larks so high 

About us in the sky. 


"Come all to church, good people,"-- 

Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; 

I hear you, I will come. 


The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, 

There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold, 

The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there, 

And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old. 


Is my team ploughing, 

That I was used to drive 

And hear the harness jingle 

When I was man alive? 


On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; 

His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; 

The wind it plies the saplings double, 

And thick on Severn snow the leaves. 


The gale, it plies the saplings double, 

It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone: 

To-day the Roman and his trouble

Are ashes under Uricon. 


From far, from eve and morning 

And yon twelve-winded sky, 

The stuff of life to knit me 

Blew hither: here am I. 


Speak now, and I will answer; 

How shall I help you, say; 

Ere to the wind's twelve quarters 

I take my endless way. 


Into my heart an air that kills 

From yon far country blows: 

What are those blue remembered hills, 

What spires, what farms are those? 

That is the land of lost content, 

I see it shining plain, 

The happy highways where I went 

And cannot come again. 


And bound for the same bourn as I, 

On every road I wandered by, 

Trod beside me, close and dear, 

The beautiful and death-struck year. 


Clunton and Clunbury, 

Clungunford and Clun, 

Are the quietest places 

Under the sun. 

Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 50, epigraph 

With rue my heart is laden 

For golden friends I had, 

For many a rose-lipt maiden 

And many a lightfoot lad. 

By brooks too broad for leaping 

The lightfoot boys are laid; 

The rose-lipt girls are sleeping 

In fields where roses fade. 


Say, for what were hop-yards meant, 

Or why was Burton built on Trent? 

Oh many a peer of England brews 

Livelier liquor than the Muse, 

And malt does more than Milton can 

To justify God's ways to man. 

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink 

For fellows whom it hurts to think. 


Oh I have been to Ludlow fair

And left my necktie God knows where, 

And carried half-way home, or near, 

Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer 

Then the world seemed none so bad, 

And I myself a sterling lad; 

And down in lovely muck I've lain, 

Happy till I woke again. 


I tell the tale that I heard told. 

Mithridates, he died old. 


8.84 Sidney Howard 

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See Margaret Mitchell (13.105) 

8.85 Elbert Hubbard 

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1859-1915 

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not 

believe you anyway. 

Motto Book (1907) p. 31 

Life is just one damned thing after another. 

Philistine Dec. 1909, p. 32. The saying is often attributed to Frank Ward 

O'Malley 

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate 

the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. 

Roycroft Dictionary (1914) p. 46 

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the 

commonplace. 

Thousand and One Epigrams (1911) p. 133 

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the 

work of one extraordinary man. 

Thousand and One Epigrams (1911) p. 151 

8.86 Frank McKinney ('Kin') Hubbard 

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1868-1930 

Classic music is th'kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune. 

Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors (1923) 

It's no disgrace t'be poor, but it might as well be. 

Short Furrows (1911) p. 42 

8.87 L. Ron Hubbard 

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1911-1986

Hubbard...told us that writing science fiction for about a penny a word 

was no way to make a living. If you really want to make a million, he 

said, the quickest way is to start your own religion. 

Sam Moscowitz recalling Hubbard speaking to the Eastern Science Fiction 

Association at Newark, New Jersey, in 1947, in B. Corydon and L. Ron 

Hubbard Jr. L. Ron Hubbard (1987) ch. 3 

8.88 Howard Hughes Jr. 

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1905-1976 

That man's ears make him look like a taxi-cab with both doors open. 

In Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg Celluloid Muse (1969) p. 156 

(describing Clark Gable) 

8.89 Jimmy Hughes and Frank Lake 

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Bless 'em all! Bless 'em all! 

The long and the short and the tall. 

Bless 'Em All (1940 song) 

8.90 Langston Hughes 

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1902-1967 

"It's powerful," he said. 

"What?" 

"That one drop of Negro blood--because just one drop of black blood 

makes a man coloured. One drop--you are a Negro!" 

Simple Takes a Wife (1953) p. 85 

I, too, sing America. 

I am the darker brother. 

They send me to eat in the kitchen 

When company comes. 

But I laugh, 

And eat well, 

And grow strong. 

Tomorrow 

I'll sit at the table 

When company comes 

Nobody'll dare 

Say to me, 

"Eat in the kitchen" 

Then. 

Besides, they'll see how 

beautiful I am 

And be ashamed,-- 

I, too, am America. 

Survey Graphic Mar. 1925, "I, Too" 

8.91 Ted Hughes

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1930- 

It took the whole of Creation 

To produce my foot, my each feather: 

Now I hold Creation in my foot. 

Lupercal (1960) "Hawk Roosting" 

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[Josephine Hull's] stage reminiscences are not the least of her charms. 

"Shakespeare," she recalls, "is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit 

down unless you're a king." 

Time 16 Nov. 1953, p. 90 

8.93 Hubert Humphrey 

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1911-1978 

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to 

enforce a law not supported by the people. 

Speech at Williamsburg, 1 May 1965, in New York Times 2 May 1965, sec. 1, 

p. 34 

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken 

seriously. 

Speech to National Student Association at Madison, 23 Aug. 1965, in New 

York Times 24 Aug. 1965, p. 12 

And here we are, just as we ought to be, here we are, the people, here we 

are in a spirit of dedication, here we are the way politics ought to be in 

America, the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the 

politics of joy. 

Speech in Washington, 27 Apr. 1968, in New York Times 28 Apr. 1968, p. 66 

8.94 Herman Hupfeld 

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1894-1951 

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, 

A sigh is just a sigh; 

The fundamental things apply, 

As time goes by. 

As Time Goes By (1931 song) 

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1894-1963 

Christlike in my behaviour, 

Like every good believer, 

I imitate the Saviour, 

And cultivate a beaver.

Antic Hay (1923) ch. 4 

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in 

provincialism. 

Antic Hay (1923) ch. 10 

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of 

the country in which the office is held. 

Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934) p. 34 

The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon. 

Brave New World (1932) ch. 5 

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most 

important of all the lessons that history has to teach. 

Collected Essays (1959) "Case of Voluntary Ignorance" 

The proper study of mankind is books. 

Crome Yellow (1921) ch. 28 

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. 

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely 

consistent people are the dead. 

Do What You Will (1929) "Wordsworth in the Tropics" 

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that 

the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. 

Ends and Means(1937) ch. 1 

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons 

will duly arise and make them miserable. 

Ends and Means (1937) ch. 8 

Chastity--the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added 

parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont. 

Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 27 

"Death," said Mark Staithes. "It's the only thing we haven't succeeded in 

completely vulgarizing." 

Eyeless in Gaza (1936) ch. 31 

"Bed," as the Italian proverb succinctly puts it, "is the poor man's 

opera." 

Heaven and Hell (1956) p. 41 

A million million spermatozoa, 

All of them alive: 

Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah 

Dare hope to survive. 

And among that billion minus one 

Might have chanced to be 

Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne-- 

But the One was Me. 

Leda (1920) "Fifth Philosopher's Song" 

Beauty for some provides escape, 

Who gain a happiness in eyeing 

The gorgeous buttocks of the ape 

Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Leda (1920) "Ninth Philosopher's Song" 

Then brim the bowl with atrabilious liquor! 

We'll pledge our Empire vast across the flood: 

For Blood, as all men know, than Water's thicker, 

But Water's wider, thank the Lord, than Blood. 

Leda (1920) "Ninth Philosopher's Song" 

Ragtime...but when the wearied Band 

Swoons to a waltz, I take her hand, 

And there we sit in peaceful calm, 

Quietly sweating palm to palm. 

Leda (1920) "Frascati's" 

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There 

is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. 

Limbo (1920) "Cynthia" 

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is 

music. 

Music at Night (1931) p. 17 

"And besides," he added, forgetting that several excuses are always less 

convincing than one, "Lady Edward's inviting an American editor specially 

for my sake." 

Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 1 

A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as 

sincerely from the author's soul. 


There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no 

avail. 


Brought up in an epoch when ladies apparently rolled along on wheels, Mr 

Quarles was peculiarly susceptible to calves. 


Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. 


That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no 

sane human being has ever given his assent. 

Proper Studies (1927) "The Idea of Equality" 

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally 

those who achieve something. 

Proper Studies (1927) "Note on Dogma" 

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. 

Proper Studies (1927) "Note on Dogma" 

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what 

happens to him. 

Texts and Pretexts (1932) p. 5 

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for 

granted. 

Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, 

and that's your own self. Your own self," he repeated. So you have to 

begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, 

when you've worked on your own corner. 

Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7 

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1887-1975 

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last 

fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. 

Religion without Revelation (1957 edn.) ch. 3 

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9.1 Dolores Ibarruri ('La Pasionaria') 

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1895-1989 

Il vaut mieux mourir debout que de vivre … genoux! 

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. 

Speech in Paris, 3 Sept. 1936, in L'Humanit‚ 4 Sept. 1936 (also attributed 

to Emiliano Zapata) 

No pasar n. 

They shall not pass. 

Radio broadcast, Madrid, 19 July 1936, in Speeches and Articles 1936-38 

(1938) p. 7 (cf. Anonymous 6:25) 

9.2 Henrik Ibsen 

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1828-1906 

Luftslotte,--de er s† nemme at ty ind i, de. Og nemme at bygge ogs†. 

Castles in the air--they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to 

build, too. 

Bygmester Solness (The Master Builder, 1892) act 3 

Flertallet har aldrig retten p† sin side. Aldrig, siger jeg! Det er en af 

disse samfundslígne, som en fri, t‘nkende mand m† gíre oprír imod. Hvem er 

det, som udgír flertallet af beboerne i et land? Er det de kloge folk, 

eller er det dŠ dumme? Jeg taenker, vi f†r vaere enige om, at dumme 

mennesker er tilstede i en ganske forskraek kelig overv‘ldende majoritet 

rundt omkring p† den hele vide jord. Men det kan da vel, for fanden, 

aldrig i evighed vaere ret, at de dumme skal herske over de kloge! 

The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the 

social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against. Who makes 

up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I

think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming 

majority, all the wide world over. 

En Folkefiende (An Enemy of the People, 1882) act 4 

En skulde aldrig ha' sine bedste buxer p†, n†r en er ude og strider for 

frihed og sandhed. 

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for 

freedom and truth. 


Sagen er den, ser I, at den st‘rkeste mand i verden, det er han, som st†r 

mest alene. 

The thing is, you see, that the strongest man in the world is the man who 

stands most alone. 


Mor, gi' mig solen. 

Mother, give me the sun. 

Gengangere (Ghosts, 1881) act 3 

Men, gud sig forbarme,--sligt noget gír man da ikke! 

But good God, people don't do such things! 

Hedda Gabler (1890) act 4 

Hvad skal manden v‘re? Sig selv, det er mit korte svar. 

What ought a man to be? Well, my short answer is "himself." 

Peer Gynt (1867) act 4 

Tar de livslígnen fra et gennemsnitsmenneske, s† tar De lykken fra ham med 

det samme. 

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take 

away his happiness. 

Vildanden (The Wild Duck, 1884) act 5 

9.3 Harold L. Ickes 

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1874-1952 

The trouble with Senator Long...is that he is suffering from halitosis of 

the intellect. That's presuming Emperor Long has an intellect. 

Speech, 1935, in G. Wolfskill and J. A. Hudson All But the People: 

Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Critics, 1933-39 (1969) ch. 11 

Dewey threw his diaper into the ring. 

On the Republican candidate for the presidency, in New York Times 12 Dec. 

1939, p. 32 

9.4 Eric Idle 

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1943- 

See Graham Chapman et al. (3.47)

9.5 Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) 

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1893-1970 

It was not until several weeks after he had decided to murder his wife 

that Dr Bickleigh took any active steps in the matter. Murder is a serious 

business. 

Malice Aforethought (1931) p. 7 

9.6 Ivan Illich 

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1926- 

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use 

them. 

Deschooling Society (1971) ch. 4 

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the 

prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. 

Tools for Conviviality (1973) ch. 3 

9.7 Charles Inge 

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1868-1957 

This very remarkable man 

Commends a most practical plan: 

You can do what you want 

If you don't think you can't, 

So don't think you can't think you can. 

Weekend Book (1928) "On Monsieur Cou‚" 

9.8 William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge) 

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1860-1954 

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. 

"The Training of the Reason" in A. C. Benson (ed.) Cambridge Essays on 

Education (1917) ch. 2 

The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot. 

End of an Age (1948) ch. 4 

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is 

a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static 

Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. 

End of an Age (1948) ch. 6 

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to 

enslave a philosophy. 

Idea of Progress (Romanes Lecture delivered at Oxford, 27 May 1920) p. 9 

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when 

they are only repelled by man. 

More Lay Thoughts of a Dean (1931) pt. 4, ch. 1

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the 

sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf 

remains of a different opinion. 

Outspoken Essays: First Series (1919) "Patriotism" 

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have 

been small states--Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England. 

Outspoken Essays: Second Series (1922) "State, visible and invisible" 

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it; and 

he cannot avow that the bayonets are meant to keep his own subjects quiet. 

Philosophy of Plotinus (1923) vol. 2, lecture 22 

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. 

Victorian Age (Rede Lecture delivered at Cambridge, 1922) p. 49 

9.9 EugŠne Ionesco 

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1912- 

C'est une chose anormale de vivre. 

Living is abnormal. 

Le Rhinoc‚ros (1959) act 1 

Tu ne pr‚vois les ‚v‚nements que lorsqu'ils sont d‚j… arriv‚s. 

You can only predict things after they have happened. 

Le Rhinoc‚ros (1959) act 3 

Un fonctionnaire ne plaisante pas. 

A civil servant doesn't make jokes. 

Tueur sans gages (The Killer, 1958) act 1 

9.10 Weldon J. Irvine 

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Young, gifted and black. 

Title of song (1969; music by Nina Simone) 

9.11 Christopher Isherwood 

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1904-1986 

The common cormorant (or shag) 

Lays eggs inside a paper bag, 

You follow the idea, no doubt? 

It's to keep the lightning out. 

But what these unobservant birds 

Have never thought of, is that herds 

Of wandering bears might come with buns 

And steal the bags to hold the crumbs. 

Exhumations (1966) "Common Cormorant"

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not 

thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman 

in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be 

developed, carefully printed, fixed. 

Goodbye to Berlin (1939) "Berlin Diary" Autumn 1930 

Mr Norris changes trains. 


See also W. H. Auden (1.67) and Christopher Isherwood 

10.0 J 

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10.1 Holbrook Jackson 

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1874-1948 

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. 

All Manner of Folk (1912) "On a Certain Arrangement" p. 89 

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge. 

Anatomy of Bibliomania (1930) vol. 1, p. 150 

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it. 

Platitudes in the Making (1911) p. 13 

10.2 Joe Jacobs 

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1896-1940 

We was robbed! 

Shouted into the microphone after Jack Sharkey beat Max Schmeling (of whom 

Jacobs was manager) in the heavyweight title fight, 21 June 1932, in Peter 

Heller In This Corner (1975) p. 44 

I should of stood [i.e. have stayed] in bed. 

Said after he left his sick-bed in October 1935 to attend the World 

Baseball Series in Detroit and he bet on the losers, in John Lardner 

Strong Cigars (1951) p. 61 

10.3 Mick Jagger and Keith Richard (Keith Richards) 

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Mick Jagger 1943- 

Keith Richard 1943- 

It's only rock 'n' roll. 


Ev'rywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, oh, boy, 

'Cause summer's here and the time is oh, right for fighting in the 

street, boy. 

But what can a poor boy do 

Except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band,

'Cause in sleepy London town 

There's just no place for street fighting man! 

Street Fighting Man (1968 song) 

10.4 Henry James 

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1843-1916 

The ever-importunate murmur, "Dramatize it, dramatize it!" 

Altar of the Dead (1909 ed.) preface 

The terrible fluidity of self-revelation. 

Ambassadors (1909 ed.) preface 

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what 

you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had 

that, what have you had? 

Ambassadors (1903) bk. 5, ch. 11 

The deep well of unconscious cerebration. 

The American (1909 ed.) preface 

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; 

the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take. 

Aspern Papers (1909 ed.) preface 

Summer afternoon--summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two 

most beautiful words in the English language. 

In Edith Wharton Backward Glance (1934) ch. 10 

He [Henry James] is said to have told his old friend Lady Prothero, when 

she saw him after the first stroke, that in the very act of falling (he 

was dressing at the time) he heard in the room a voice which was 

distinctly, it seemed, not his own saying: "So here it is at last, the 

distinguished thing!" 

Edith Wharton Backward Glance (1934) ch. 14 

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him. 

Complete Tales (1962) vol. 1 "My Friend Bingham" (1867 short story) 

We work in the dark--we do what we can--we give what we have. Our doubt 

is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of 

art. 

Complete Tales (1964) vol. 9 "Middle Years" (1893 short story) 

Vereker's secret, my dear man--the general intention of his books: the 

string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the 

carpet. 

Figure in the Carpet (1896) ch. 11 

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. 

Hawthorne (1879) ch. 1 

Whatever question there may be of his [Thoreau's] talent, there can be 

none, I think, of his genius. It was a slim and crooked one; but it was 

eminently personal. He was imperfect, unfinished, inartistic; he was worse 

than provincial--he was parochial. 

Hawthorne (1879) ch. 4

Cats and monkeys--monkeys and cats--all human life is there! 

Madonna of the Future (1879) vol. 1, p. 59 ("All human life is there" was 

used by Maurice Smelt as an advertising slogan for the News of the World 

in the late 1950s) 

They have fairly faced the full, the monstrous demonstration that Tennyson 

was not Tennysonian. 

Middle Years (1917 autobiography) ch. 6 

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to 

represent life. 

Partial Portraits (1888) "Art of Fiction" 

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without 

incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. 


Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense 

sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads 

suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne 

particle in its tissue. 


What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but 

the illustration of character? What is either a picture or a novel that is 

not character? 


We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn‚e: our criticism 

is applied only to what he makes of it. 


I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like. 

Portrait of a Lady (1881) vol. 2, ch. 5. Cf. Max Beerbohm 23:14 

I didn't, of course, stay her hand--there never is in such cases "time"; 

and I had once more the full demonstration of the fatal futility of Fact. 

Spoils of Poynton (1909 ed.) preface 

We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had 

stopped. 

Turn of the Screw (1898) p. 169 

10.5 William James 

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1842-1910 

Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be into the 

bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, 

indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species. 

Atlantic Monthly Dec. 1904, p. 845 

I now perceive one immense omission in my Psychology,--the deepest 

principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated, and I left it 

out altogether from the book, because I had never had it gratified till 

now. 

Letter to his class at Radcliffe College, 6 Apr. 1896, in Letters (1920) 

vol. 2, p. 33

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess 

success. That--with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 

success--is our national disease. 

Letter to H. G. Wells, 11 Sept. 1906, in Letters (1920) vol. 2, p. 260 

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and 

disdains--under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the 

human core. 

McClure's Magazine Feb. 1908, p. 422 

So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary 

function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the 

mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full 

inwardness of the situation. 

Memories and Studies (1911) "The Moral Equivalent of War" p. 283 

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is 

habitual but indecision. 

Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 1, ch. 4 

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. 

Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 2, ch. 22 

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference 

with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not 

assume to interfere by violence with ours. 

Talks to Teachers (1899) "What makes a Life Significant?" 

If merely "feeling good" could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely 

valid human experience. 

Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lecture 1, p. 16 

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a 

revelation. 

Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lectures 4 and 5, p. 113 

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. 

Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lectures 14 and 15, p. 355 

10.6 Randall Jarrell 

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1914-1965 

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they 

have forgotten what it is like to be a child. 

Introduction to Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children (1965) p. xxvi 

10.7 Douglas Jay 

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1907- 

It was Bert Amey who asked me to send him a brief rhyming North Battersea 

slogan [for the 1946 by-election]. I suggested: "Fair Shares for All, is 

Labour's Call"; and from this by-election "Fair Shares for All" spread in 

a few years round the country. 

Change and Fortune (1980) ch. 7 

For in the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education,

the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people 

than the people know themselves. 

Socialist Case (1939) ch. 30 

10.8 Sir James Jeans 

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1877-1946 

Taking a very gloomy view of the future of the human race, let us suppose 

that it can only expect to survive for two thousand million years longer, 

a period about equal to the past age of the earth. Then, regarded as a 

being destined to live for three-score years and ten, humanity, although 

it has been born in a house seventy years old, is itself only three days 

old. 

Eos (1928) p. 12 

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain 

exceptional properties. 

Mysterious Universe (1930) ch. 1 

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the 

Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. 

Mysterious Universe (1930) ch. 5 

10.9 Patrick Jenkin 

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1926- 

People can clean their teeth in the dark, use the top of the stove instead 

of the oven, all sorts of savings, but they must use less electricity. 

Radio broadcast, 15 Jan. 1974, in The Times 16 Jan. 1974 

10.10 Rt. Revd David Jenkins (Bishop of Durham) 

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1925- 

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if he wanted to, but 

I very much doubt if he would--because it seems to be contrary to the way 

in which he deals with persons and brings his wonders out of natural 

personal relationships. 

In Church Times 4 May 1984 

The withdrawal of an imported, elderly American [Ian MacGregor] to leave a 

reconciling opportunity for some local product is surely neither 

dishonourable nor improper. 

In The Times 22 Sept. 1984 

10.11 Roy Jenkins (Baron Jenkins of Hillhead) 

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1920- 

The politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an 

out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of 

Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. 

Can it be broken? 

Speech to Parliamentary Press Gallery, 9 June 1980, in The Times 10 June

1980 

10.12 Paul Jennings 

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1918-1989 

I am prepared to testify on oath that on the portico pillars of one 

building there is a bronze office sign which simply says: ACTIVATED 

SLUDGE. 

Oddly Enough (1950) "Activated Sludge" 

Clark-Trimble arranged four hundred pieces of carpet in ascending degrees 

of quality, from coarse matting to priceless Chinese silk. Pieces of 

toast and marmalade, graded, weighed, and measured, were then dropped on 

each piece of carpet, and the marmalade-downwards incidence was 

statistically analysed. The toast fell right-side-up every time on the 

cheap carpet...and it fell marmalade-downwards every time on the Chinese 

silk. 

Town and Country Sept. 1949, "Report on Resistentialism" 

10.13 Jerome K. Jerome 

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1859-1927 

It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you 

are an exceptionally good liar. 

The Idler Feb. 1892, p. 118 

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work 

to do. 

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Being Idle" 

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. 

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Being in Love" 

We drink one another's healths, and spoil our own. 

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Eating and Drinking" 

The world must be getting old, I think; it dresses so very soberly now. 

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Dress and Deportment" 

I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a 

humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should 

probably have gone about preaching and got myself burnt or hanged. 

My Life and Times (1926) ch. 6 

The passing of the third floor back. 

Title of story (1907) and play (1910) 

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend 

the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house. 

They and I (1909) ch. 11 

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine 

advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering 

from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. 

Three Men in a Boat (1889) ch. 1

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his 

mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. 

Three Men in a Boat (1889) ch. 3 

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love 

to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. 

Three Men in a Boat (1889) ch. 15 

10.14 William Jerome 

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1865-1932 

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me. 

Title of song (1901; music by Jean Schwartz) 

You needn't try to reason, 

Your excuse is out of season, 

Just kiss yourself goodbye. 

Just Kiss Yourself Goodbye (1902 song; music by Jean Schwartz) 

10.15 C. E. M. Joad 

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1891-1953 

It all depends what you mean by... 

Frequent opening to replies on the BBC radio series "The Brains Trust" 

(originally "Any Questions"), 1941-8 

My life is spent in a perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the 

rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely, and the rhythm of 

trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored. 

In Observer 12 Dec. 1948, p. 2 

10.16 Pope John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) 

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1881-1963 

If civil authorities legislate for or allow anything that is contrary to 

that order and therefore contrary to the will of God, neither the laws 

made or the authorizations granted can be binding on the consciences of 

the citizens, since God has more right to be obeyed than man. 

Pacem in Terris (1963) p. 142 

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are 

necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace 

of all other countries. 

Pacem in Terris (1963) p. 150 

John XXIII said that during the first months of his pontificate he often 

woke during the night, thinking himself still a cardinal and worried over 

a difficult decision to be made, and he would say to himself: "I'll talk 

it over with the Pope!" Then he would remember where he was. "But I'm the 

Pope!" he said to himself. After which he would conclude: "Well I'll talk 

it over with Our Lord!" 

Henri Fesquet Wit and Wisdom of Good Pope John (1964) p. 59 

Anybody can be pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

Henri Fesquet Wit and Wisdom of Good Pope John (1964) p. 112 

10.17 Lyndon Baines Johnson 

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1908-1973 

I don't want loyalty. I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's 

window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in 

my pocket. 

In David Halberstam Best and Brightest (1972) ch. 20 

It's probably better to have him [J. Edgar Hoover] inside the tent pissing 

out, than outside pissing in. 

In David Halberstam Best and Brightest (1972) ch. 20 

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. 

In Richard Reeves A Ford, not a Lincoln (1975) ch. 2 

For the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty. 

Speech to Congress, 16 Mar. 1964, in New York Times 17 Mar. 1964, p. 22 

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today. 

Speech to Congress, 27 Nov. 1963, in Public Papers of the Presidents of 

the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64 vol. 1, p. 8 (after the 

previous president, J. F. Kennedy, was assassinated) 

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have 

talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next 

chapter, and to write it in the books of law. 

Speech to Congress, 27 Nov. 1963, in Public Papers of the Presidents of 

the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64 vol. 1, p. 9 

We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has 

broadened into a brotherhood. 

Speech at lighting of the Nation's Christmas Tree, 22 Dec. 1963, in 

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 

1963-64, vol. 1, item 65 

This administration today, here and now declares unconditional war on 

poverty in America. 

State of the Union address to Congress, 8 Jan. 1964, in Public Papers of 

the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64 vol. 1, p. 

114 

In your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich 

society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. 

Speech at University of Michigan, 22 May 1964, in Public Papers of the 

Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64 vol. 1, p. 704 

We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of 

spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. 

Speech on radio and television, 4 Aug. 1964, in Public Papers of the 

Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64 vol. 2, p. 927 

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to 

do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. 

Speech at Akron University, 21 Oct. 1964, in Public Papers of the 

Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64 vol. 2, p. 

1391

Extremism in the pursuit of the Presidency is an unpardonable vice. 

Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. 

Speech in New York, 31 Oct. 1964, in Public Papers of the Presidents of 

the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-64 vol. 2, p. 1559 

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is 

right. 

State of the Union address to Congress, 4 Jan. 1965, in Public Papers of 

the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1965 vol. 1, p. 9 

I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in 

that order. 

Texas Quarterly Winter 1958 

10.18 Philander Chase Johnson 

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1866-1939 

Cheer up! the worst is yet to come! 

Everybody's Magazine May 1920 

10.19 Philip Johnson 

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1906- 

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. 

New York Times 27 Dec. 1964, p. 9E 

10.20 Hanns Johst 

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1890-1978 

Wenn ich Kultur h”re...entsichere ich meinen Browning! 

Whenever I hear the word culture...I release the safety-catch of my 

Browning [pistol]! 

Schlageter (1933) act 1, sc. 1. Often attributed to Hermann Goering 

10.21 Al Jolson 

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1886-1950 

It can be revealed for the first time that it was in San Francisco [in 

1906] that Al Jolson first uttered his immortal slogan, "You ain't heard 

nuttin' yet!" One night at the cafe he had just finished a song when a 

deafening burst of noise from a building project across the street drowned 

out the applause. At the top of his lungs, Jolson screamed, "You think 

that's noise--you ain't heard nuttin' yet!" And he proceeded to deliver an 

encore which for sheer blasting power put to everlasting shame all the 

decibels of noise the carpenters, the brick-layers and the drillers could 

scare up between them. 

Martin Abramson Real Story of Al Jolson (1950) p. 12 

10.22 James Jones 

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1921- 

From here to eternity. 

Title of novel (1951). Cf. Rudyard Kipling 123:16 

10.23 LeRoi Jones 

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See Imamu Amiri Baraka (2.13) 

10.24 Erica Jong 

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1942- 

The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the 

unicorn. And I have never had one. 

Fear of Flying (1973) ch. 1 

10.25 Janis Joplin 

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1943-1970 

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz 

My friends all drive Porsches, 

I must make amends. 

Mercedes Benz (1970 song) 

Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week. 

Said when Eisenhower's death prevented her photograph from being on the 

front cover of Newsweek, in New Musical Express 12 Apr. 1969 

10.26 Sir Keith Joseph 

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1918- 

Perhaps there is at work here a process, apparent in many situations but 

imperfectly understood, by which problems reproduce themselves from 

generation to generation. If I refer to this as a "cycle of deprivation" I 

do not want to be misunderstood. 

Speech in London to Pre-School Playgroups Association, 29 June 1972 

10.27 James Joyce 

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1882-1941 

Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was 

falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, 

falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling 

into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part 

of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It 

lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears 

of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he 

heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, 

like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

Dubliners (1914) "The Dead" 

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings 

us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and 

Environs. 

Finnegans Wake (1939) pt. 1, p. 3 

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia. 


The flushpots of Euston and the hanging garments of Marylebone. 


O 

tell me all about 

Anna Livia! I want to hear all 

about Anna Livia. Well, you know Anna Livia? 

Yes, of course, we all know Anna Livia. Tell me all. Tell me now. 


Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! Night night! Telmetale of stem or stone. 

Beside the rivering waters of hitherandthithering waters of. Night! 


All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the 

fear of the Law. 


Three quarks for Muster Mark! 


The Gracehoper was always jigging ajog, hoppy on akkant of his joyicity. 


If I seen him bearing down on me now under whitespread wings like he'd 

come from Arkangels, I sink I'd die down over his feet, humbly dumbly, 

only to washup. Yes, tid. There's where. First. We pass through grass 

behush the bush to. Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, far! End 

here. Us then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till 

thousendsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a 

long the 


Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming 

down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a 

nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. 

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) ch. 1 

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or 

beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, 

indifferent, paring his fingernails. 


Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. 


Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever 

is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human 

sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of 

whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with

the secret cause. 


Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of 

experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience 

of my race....Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good 

stead. 


I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself 

my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in 

some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using 

for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile, and 

cunning. 


Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of 

lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, 

ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He 

held the bowl aloft and intoned: 

--Introibo ad altare Dei. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 1 

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. 


It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant. 


When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes 

water I makes water.... Begob, ma'am, says Mrs. Cahill, God send you don't 

make them in the one pot. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 12 

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 31 

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 34 

Lawn Tennyson, gentleman poet. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 50 

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He 

liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver 

slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked 

grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly 

scented urine. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 53 

Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 102 

She used to say Ben Dollard had a base barreltone voice. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 147 

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the 

portals of discovery. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 182

Greater love than this, he said, no man hath that a man lay down his wife 

for his friend. Go thou and do likewise. Thus, or words to that effect, 

saith Zarathustra, sometime regius professor of French letters to the 

university of Oxtail. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 375 

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 651 

He kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as 

another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he 

asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms 

around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all 

perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will 

Yes. 

Ulysses (1922) p. 732 

When a young man came up to him in Zurich and said, "May I kiss the hand 

that wrote Ulysses?" Joyce replied, somewhat like King Lear, "No, it did 

lots of other things too." 

Richard Ellmann James Joyce (1959) p. 114 

10.28 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) 

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1906-1946 

Germany calling! Germany calling! 

Habitual introduction to propaganda broadcasts to Britain during the 

Second World War 

10.29 Jack Judge and Harry Williams 

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Jack Judge 1878-1938 

Harry Williams 1874-1924 

It's a long way to Tipperary, 

It's a long way to go; 

It's a long way to Tipperary, 

To the sweetest girl I know! 

Goodbye, Piccadilly, 

Farewell, Leicester Square, 

It's a long, long way to Tipperary, 

But my heart's right there! 

It's a Long Way to Tipperary (1912 song) 

10.30 Carl Gustav Jung 

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1875-1961 

Ein Mensch, der nicht durch die H”lle seiner Leidenschaften gegangen ist, 

hat sie auch nie berwunden. 

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never 

overcome them. 

Errinerungen, Tr„ume, Gedanken (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962)

ch. 9 

Soweit wir zu erkennen verm”gen, ist es die einzige Sinn der menschlichen 

Existenz, ein Licht anznden in der Finsternis des blossen Seins. 

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle 

a light in the darkness of mere being. 

Errinerungen, Tr„ume, Gedanken (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962) 

ch. 11 

Jede Form von Schtigkeit ist von bel, gleichgltig, ob es sich um 

Alkohol oder Morphium oder Idealismus handelt. 

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol 

or morphine or idealism. 

Erinnerungen, Tr„ume, Gedanken (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962) 

ch. 12 

I do not believe....I know. 

In L. van der Post Jung and the Story of our Time (1976) p. 215 

Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen Machtwillen, und wo die Macht den 

Vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern. 

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, 

love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. 

šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the 

Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58 

Alles, was wir an den Kindern „ndern wollen, sollten wir zun„chst wohl 

aufmerksam prfen, ob es nicht etwas sei, was besser an uns zu „ndern 

w„re. 

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first 

examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be 

changed in ourselves. 

Vom Werden der Pers”nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932) 

in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 194 

Pers”nlichkeit ist h”chste Verwirklichung der eingeborenen Eigenart des 

besonderen lebenden Wesens. Pers”nlichkeit ist der Tat des h”chsten 

Lebensmutes, der absoluten Bejahung des individuell Seienden und der 

erfolgreichsten Anpassung an das universal Gegetene bei gr”sstm”glicher 

Freiheit der eigenen Entscheidung. 

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate individuality of a 

particular living being. Personality is an act of the greatest courage in 

the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the 

individual, and the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions 

of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom of personal 

decision. 

Vom Werden der Pers”nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932) 

in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 195 

Eine gewissermassen oberfl„chliche Schicht des Unbewussten ist zweifellos 

pers”nlich. Wir nennen sie das pers”nliche Unbewusste . Dieses ruht aber 

auf einer tieferen Schicht, welche nicht mehr pers”nlicher Erfahrung und 

Erwerbung entstammt, sondern angeboren ist. Diese tiefere Schicht ist das 

sogenannte kollektive Unbewusste ....Die Inhalte des pers”nlichen 

Unbewussten sind in der Hauptsache die sogenannten gefhlsbetonten

Komplexe ....Die Inhalte des kollektiven Unbewussten dagegen sind die 

sogenannten Archetypen . 

A more or less superficial layer of the unconscious is undoubtedly 

personal. I call it the personal unconscious. But this personal 

unconscious rests upon a deeper layer, which does not derive from personal 

experience and is not a personal acquisition but is inborn. This deeper 

layer I call the collective unconscious....The contents of the personal 

unconscious are chiefly the feeling-toned complexes....The contents of the 

collective unconscious, on the other hand, are known as archetypes. 

Eranos Jahrbuch (Eranos Yearbook, 1934) p. 180 

11.0 K 

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11.1 Pauline Kael 

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1919- 

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, 

are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of 

movies. 

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968) "Note on the Title" 

She [Barbra Streisand in What's Up, Doc?] does her own shtick--the rapid, 

tricky New Yorkese line readings...but she doesn't do anything she hasn't 

already done. She's playing herself--and it's awfully soon for that. 

New Yorker 25 Mar. 1972, p. 122 

11.2 Franz Kafka 

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1883-1924 

Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas B”ses 

getan h„tte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet. 

Someone must have traduced Joseph K., for without having done anything 

wrong he was arrested one fine morning. 

Der Prozess (The Trial, 1925) opening sentence 

Sie k”nnen einwenden, dass es ja berhaupt kein Verfahren ist, Sie haben 

sehr recht, denn es ist ja nur ein Verfahren, wenn ich es als solches 

anerkenne. 

You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it 

is only a trial if I recognize it as such. 

Der Prozess (The Trial, 1925) ch. 2 

Es ist oft besser, in Ketten, als frei zu sein. 

It's often better to be in chains than to be free. 

Der Prozess (The Trial, 1925) ch. 8 

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Tr„ume erwachte, fand er sich 

in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself 

transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. 

Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis, 1915) opening sentence 

11.3 Gus Kahn and Raymond B. Egan 

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Gus Kahn 1886-1941 

Raymond B. Egan 1890-1952 

There's nothing surer, 

The rich get rich and the poor get children. 

In the meantime, in between time, 

Ain't we got fun. 

Ain't We Got Fun (1921 song; music by Richard A. Whiting) 

11.4 Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman, and Nat Perrin 

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Bert Kalmar 1884-1947 

Harry Ruby 1895-1974 

Arthur Sheekman 1891-1978 

Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honour...which is probably more 

than she ever did. 

Duck Soup (1933 film; said by Groucho Marx) 

If you can't leave in a taxi you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, 

you can leave in a minute and a huff. 

Duck Soup (1933 film; said by Groucho Marx) 

11.5 George S. Kaufman 

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1889-1961 

Satire is what closes Saturday night. 

In Scott Meredith George S. Kaufman and his Friends (1974) ch. 6 

11.6 George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart 

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George S. Kaufman 1889-1961 

Moss Hart 1904-1961 

The man who came to dinner. 


11.7 George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind 

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George S. Kaufman 1889-1961 

Morrie Ryskind 1895-1985 

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas 

I'll never know.

Animal Crackers (1930 film; said by Groucho Marx) in Richard J. Anobile 

Hooray for Captain Spaulding (1974) p. 168 

Driftwood (Groucho Marx): It's all right. That's--that's in every 

contract. That's--that's what they call a sanity clause. 

Fiorello (Chico Marx): You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus. 

Night at the Opera (1935 film), in Richard J. Anobile Why a Duck? (1971) 

p. 206 

11.8 Gerald Kaufman 

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1930- 

Our second handicap was an election manifesto which Gerald Kaufman rightly 

described as "the longest suicide note in history." 

Denis Healey Time of My Life (1989) ch. 23 (describing the Labour Party's 

New Hope for Britain, published in 1983) 

11.9 Paul Kaufman and Mike Anthony 

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Poetry in motion. 


11.10 Patrick Kavanagh 

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1905-1967 

I hate what every poet hates in spite 

Of all the solemn talk of contemplation. 

Oh, Alexander Selkirk knew the plight 

Of being king and government and nation. 

A road, a mile of kingdom, I am king 

Of banks and stones and every blooming thing. 

Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), "Inniskeen Road: July Evening" 

Cassiopeia was over 

Cassidy's hanging hill, 

I looked and three whin bushes rode across 

The horizon--the Three Wise Kings. 

Soul for Sale (1947) "Christmas Childhood" 

Clay is the word and clay is the flesh 

Where the potato-gatherers like mechanized scarecrows move 

Along the side-fall of the hill--Maguire and his men. 

Soul for Sale (1947) "The Great Hunger" 

That was how his life happened. 

No mad hooves galloping in the sky, 

But the weak, washy way of true tragedy-- 

A sick horse nosing around the meadow for a clean place to die. 

Soul for Sale (1947) "The Great Hunger" 

11.11 Ted Kavanagh 

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1892-1958

Cecil: After you, Claude. 

Claude: No, after you, Cecil. 

Catch-phrase in ITMA (BBC radio programme, 1939-49) 

Can I do you now, sir? 

Catch-phrase spoken by "Mrs Mopp" in ITMA (BBC radio programme, 1939-49) 

Don't forget the diver. 

Catch-phrase spoken by "The Diver" in ITMA (BBC radio programme, 1939-49); 

in ITMA 1939-1948 (1948) p. 19, Francis Worsley says: This character was a 

memory of the pier at New Brighton where Tommy [Handley] used to go as a 

child....A man in a bathing suit...whined "Don't forget the diver, sir." 

I don't mind if I do. 

Catch-phrase spoken by "Colonel Chinstrap" in ITMA (BBC radio programme, 

1939-49) 

I go--I come back. 

Catch-phrase spoken by "Ali Oop" in ITMA (BBC radio programme, 1939-49) 

It's being so cheerful as keeps me going. 

Catch-phrase spoken by "Mona Lott" in ITMA (BBC radio programme, 1939-49) 

11.12 Helen Keller 

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1880-1968 

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy 

for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings. 

My Religion (1927) ch. 6 

11.13 Jaan Kenbrovin and John William Kellette 

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I'm forever blowing bubbles. 


11.14 Florynce Kennedy 

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1916- 

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. 

In Ms. Mar. 1973, p. 89 

11.15 Jimmy Kennedy 

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1902-1984 

If you go down in the woods today 

You're sure of a big surprise 

If you go down in the woods today 

You'd better go in disguise 

For every Bear that ever there was 

Will gather there for certain because, 

Today's the day the Teddy Bears have their Picnic.

Teddy Bear's Picnic (1932 song; music by John W. Bratton) 

11.16 Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr 

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Jimmy Kennedy 1902-1984 

Michael Carr 1904-1968 

South of the Border--down Mexico way. 

South of the Border (1939 song) 

We're gonna hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line. 


11.17 Jimmy Kennedy and Hugh Williams (Will Grosz) 

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Jimmy Kennedy 1902-1984 

Red sails in the sunset. 


11.18 John F. Kennedy 

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1917-1963 

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy [Joseph P. 

Kennedy]--"Dear Jack. Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be 

damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide." 

Speech in Washington, 1958, in J. F. Cutler Honey Fitz (1962) p. 306 

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that 

things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were. 

Speech at White House, 27 May 1961, in New York Times 28 May 1961, p. 39 

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. 

Speech to United Nations General Assembly, 25 Sept. 1961, in New York 

Times 26 Sept. 1961, p. 14 

The President described the dinner [for Nobel Prizewinners] as "probably 

the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for 

perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone." 

New York Times 30 Apr. 1962, p. 1 

Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum". Today, 

in the world of freedom the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein 

Berliner"....All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. 

And, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, "Ich bin ein 

Berliner". 

Speech in West Berlin, 26 June 1963, in New York Times 27 June 1963, p. 12 

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his 

limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds 

him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, 

poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must 

serve as the touchstone of our judgement. 

Speech at Amherst College, Mass., 26 Oct. 1963, in New York Times 27 Oct.

1963, p. 87 

In free society art is not a weapon....Artists are not engineers of the 

soul. 

Speech at Amherst College, Mass., 26 Oct. 1963, in New York Times 27 Oct. 

1963, p. 87 

It was involuntary. They sank my boat. 

Reply when asked how he became a war hero, in Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. A 

Thousand Days (1965) ch. 4 

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier--the frontier of the 1960s--a 

frontier of unknown opportunities and perils--a frontier of unfulfilled 

hopes and threats. Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom promised our nation a new 

political and economic framework. Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal promised 

security and succor to those in need. But the New Frontier of which I 

speak is not a set of promises--it is a set of challenges. It sums up not 

what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of 

them. 

Speech accepting Democratic nomination in Los Angeles, 15 July 1960, in 

Vital Speeches 1 Aug. 1960, p. 611 

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, 

that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in 

this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, 

proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow 

undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been 

committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the 

world. 

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay 

any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose 

any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. 

Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961, in Vital Speeches 1 Feb. 1961, p. 226 

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the 

few who are rich. 


Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. 


All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be 

finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, 

nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. 


Now the trumpet summons us again--not as a call to bear arms, though arms 

we need--not as a call to battle, though embattled we are--but a call to 

bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 

"rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"--a struggle against the common 

enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. 


And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask 

what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not 

what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom 

of man. 

Inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1961, in Vital Speeches 1 Feb. 1961, p. 227. 

Cf. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., speech at Keene, New Hampshire, 30 May

1884: "We pause to...recall what our country has done for each of us and 

to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return." 

I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, 

before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him 

safely to earth. 

Supplementary State of the Union message to Congress, 25 May 1961, in 

Vital Speeches 15 June 1961, p. 518 

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution 

inevitable. 

Speech at White House, 13 Mar. 1962, in Vital Speeches 1 Apr. 1962, p. 356 

11.19 Joseph P. Kennedy 

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1888-1969 

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. 

In J. H. Cutler Honey Fitz (1962) p. 291 (also attributed to Knute Rockne) 

See also John F. Kennedy (11.18 ) 

11.20 Robert F. Kennedy 

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1925-1968 

About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. 

Speech at University of Pennsylvania, 6 May 1964, in Philadelphia Inquirer 

7 May 1964 

11.21 Jack Kerouac 

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1922-1969 

John Clellon Holmes...and I were sitting around trying to think up the 

meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I 

said, "You know, this is really a beat generation" and he leapt up and 

said "That's it, that's right!" 

Playboy June 1959, p. 32 

11.22 Jean Kerr 

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1923- 

As someone pointed out recently, if you can keep your head when all about 

you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the 

situation. 

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) introduction. Cf. Rudyard Kipling 

126:13 

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's 

deep enough. What do you want--an adorable pancreas? 

The Snake has all the Lines (1958) p. 142 

11.23 Joseph Kesselring 

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1902-1967 

Arsenic and old lace. 


11.24 John Maynard Keynes (Baron Keynes) 

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1883-1946 

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. 

Letter to Duncan Grant, 15 Dec. 1917, in British Library Add. MSS 57931 

fo. 119 

He [Clemenceau] felt about France what Pericles felt of Athens--unique 

value in her, nothing else mattering; but his theory of politics was 

Bismarck's. He had one illusion--France; and one disillusion--mankind, 

including Frenchmen, and his colleagues not least. 

Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) ch. 3 

Like Odysseus, the President [Woodrow Wilson] looked wiser when he was 

seated. 


Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the 

existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process 

engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, 

and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to 

diagnose. 


A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the 

emancipation of the mind. I do not know which makes a man more 

conservative--to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. 

End of Laissez-Faire (1926) pt. 1 

Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of 

Opinion--how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so 

powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through 

them, the events of history. 


The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals 

are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but 

to do those things which at present are not done at all. 


I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more 

efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in 

sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable. 


How can I convey to the reader, who does not know him, any just impression 

of this extraordinary figure of our time, this syren, this goat-footed 

bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and 

enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity? One catches in his company that 

flavour of final purposelessness, inner irresponsibility, existence 

outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, 

remorselessness, love of power, that lend fascination, enthralment, and

terror to the fair-seeming magicians of North European folklore. 

Essays in Biography (1933) "Mr Lloyd George" 

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over 

his fellow-citizens. 

General Theory of Employment (1936) ch. 24 

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are 

right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly 

understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who 

believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, 

are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, 

who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic 

scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested 

interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of 

ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the 

field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are 

influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of 

age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even 

agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest. But 

soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for 

good or evil. 

General Theory of Employment (1936; 1947 ed.) ch. 24 

I remember in my youth asking Maynard Keynes, "What do you think happens 

to Mr Lloyd George when he is alone in the room?" And Keynes replied, 

"When he is alone in the room there is nobody there." 

Lady Violet Bonham-Carter Impact of Personality in Politics (Romanes 

Lecture, 1963) p. 6 

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long 

run we are all dead. 

Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) ch. 3 

11.25 Nikita Khrushchev 

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1894-1971 

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and 

for all. 

Speech to secret session of 20th Congress of the Communist Party, 25 Feb. 

1956, in Dethronement of Stalin (Manchester Guardian) 11 June 1956, p. 27 

If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of 

Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must 

wait until a shrimp learns to whistle. 

Speech in Moscow, 17 Sept. 1955, in New York Times 18 Sept. 1955, p. 19 

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of 

porcupines under you. 

In New York Times 7 Nov. 1963 

Anyone who believes that the worker can be lulled by fine revolutionary 

phrases is mistaken....If no concern is shown for the growth of material 

and spiritual riches, the people will listen today, they will listen 

tomorrow, and then they may say: "Why do you promise us everything for the 

future? You are talking, so to speak, about life beyond the grave. The 

priest has already told us about this." 

Speech at World Youth Forum, 19 Sept. 1964, in Pravda 22 Sept. 1964

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. 

In Time 6 Jan. 1958 

We say this not only for the socialist states, who are more akin to us. We 

base ourselves on the idea that we must peacefully co-exist. About the 

capitalist States, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If 

you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to 

come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We 

will bury you. 

Speech to Western diplomats at reception in Moscow for Polish leader Mr 

Gomulka, 18 Nov. 1956, in The Times 19 Nov. 1956 

11.26 Joyce Kilmer 

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1886-1918 

I think that I shall never see 

A poem lovely as a tree. 

Trees and Other Poems (1914) "Trees" 

Poems are made by fools like me, 

But only God can make a tree. 

Trees and Other Poems (1914) "Trees" 

11.27 Lord Kilmuir (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe) 

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1900-1967 

Loyalty is the Tory's secret weapon. 

In Anthony Sampson Anatomy of Britain (1962) ch. 6 

11.28 Martin Luther King 

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1929-1968 

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. 

Letter from Birmingham Jail, Alabama, 16 Apr. 1963, in Atlantic Monthly 

Aug. 1963, p. 78 

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great 

stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens 

Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more 

devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is 

the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of 

justice. 

Letter from Birmingham Jail, Alabama, 16 Apr. 1963, in Atlantic Monthly 

Aug. 1963, p. 81 

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, 

he isn't fit to live. 

Speech in Detroit, 23 June 1963, in J. Bishop Days of M. L. King Jr. 

(1971) ch. 4 

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. 

In New York Journal-American 10 Sept. 1962, p. 1

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties 

of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted 

in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise 

up and live out the true meaning of its creed:--"We hold these truths to 

be self-evident, that all men are created equal." 

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former 

slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down 

together at the table of brotherhood. 

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state 

sweltering with the people's injustice, sweltering with the heat of 

oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. 

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation 

where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the 

content of their character. 

Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York 

Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21 

Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've been to the mountain top. I 

won't mind. Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has 

its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's 

will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, 

and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want 

you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So 

I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any 

man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. 

Speech in Memphis, 3 Apr. 1968 (the day before King was assassinated), in 

New York Times 4 Apr. 1968, p. 24 

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort 

and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and 

controversy. 

Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3 

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and 

conscientious stupidity. 


Jesus eloquently affirmed from the cross a higher law. He knew that the 

old eye-for-an-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek 

to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. 


The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. 

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided 

missiles and misguided men. 


If we assume that mankind has a right to survive, then we must find an 

alternative to war and destruction. In our day of space vehicles and 

guided ballistic missiles, the choice is either nonviolence or 

nonexistence. 


We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. 

Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964 

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Where Do We Go From Here? (1967) ch. 4 

11.29 Stoddard King 

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1889-1933 

There's a long, long trail awinding 

Into the land of my dreams, 

Where the nightingales are singing 

And a white moon beams; 

There's a long, long night of waiting 

Until my dreams all come true, 

Till the day when I'll be going down 

That long, long trail with you. 

There's a Long, Long Trail (1913 song; music by Zo (Alonso) Elliott) 

11.30 David Kingsley, Dennis Lyons, and Peter Lovell-Davis 

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Yesterday's men (they failed before!). 

Advertising slogan for the Labour Party (referring to the Conservatives), 

1970, in David Butler and Michael Pinto-Duschinsky British General 

Election of 1970 (1971) ch. 6 

11.31 Hugh Kingsmill (Hugh Kingsmill Lunn) 

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1889-1949 

Friends...are God's apology for relations. 

In Michael Holroyd Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1970) p. 12 

What still alive at twenty-two, 

A clean upstanding chap like you? 

Sure, if your throat 'tis hard to slit, 

Slit your girl's, and swing for it. 

Like enough, you won't be glad, 

When they come to hang you, lad: 

But bacon's not the only thing 

That's cured by hanging from a string. 

Table of Truth (1933) "Two Poems, after A. E. Housman," no. 1 

'Tis Summer Time on Bredon, 

And now the farmers swear: 

The cattle rise and listen 

In valleys far and near, 

And blush at what they hear. 

But when the mists in autumn 

On Bredon top are thick, 

And happy hymns of farmers 

Go up from fold and rick, 

The cattle then are sick. 

Table of Truth (1933) "Two Poems, after A. E. Housman," no. 2 

11.32 Neil Kinnock 

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1942- 

If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary, I 

warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not 

to grow old. 

Speech at Bridgend, 7 June 1983, in Guardian 8 June 1983 

Mr Shultz went off his pram. 

Comment after a meeting with the US Secretary of State, in Guardian 15 

Feb. 1984 

I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me. 

Speech at Labour Party Conference, 30 Sept. 1986, in Guardian 1 Oct. 1986 

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to 

a university? Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand 

generations to be able to get to a university? Was it because all our 

predecessors were thick? Did they lack talent? Those people who could sing 

and play and write poetry? Those people who could make wonderful beautiful 

things with their hands? Those people who could dream dreams, see visions? 

Was it because they were weak, those people who could work eight hours 

underground and then come up and play football, weak? Does anybody really 

think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent 

or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It's 

because they didn't have a platform on which they could stand. 

Speech in party political broadcast, 21 May 1987, in New York Times 12 

Sept. 1987, p. 1 (this speech was later plagiarized by the American 

politician Joe Biden) 

11.33 Rudyard Kipling 

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1865-1936 

But I consort with long-haired things 

In velvet collar-rolls, 

Who talk about the Aims of Art, 

And "theories" and "goals," 

And moo and coo with women-folk 

About their blessed souls. 

Abaft the Funnel (1909) "In Partibus" 

When you've shouted "Rule Britannia," when you've sung "God save the 

Queen"-- 

When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth-- 

Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine 

For a gentleman in Kharki ordered South? 

He's an absent-minded beggar and his weaknesses are great-- 

But we and Paul must take him as we find him-- 

He is out on active service, wiping something off a slate-- 

And he's left a lot o' little things behind him! 

Absent-Minded Beggar (1899) p. 1 

There is sorrow enough in the natural way 

From men and women to fill our day; 

But when we are certain of sorrow in store, 

Why do we always arrange for more? 

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware 

Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. 

Actions and Reactions (1909) "The Power of the Dog"

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, 

And--every--single--one--of--them--is--right! 

Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) "In the Neolithic Age" 

"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade. 

"To turn you out, to turn you out," the Colour-Sergeant said. 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "Danny Deever" 

For they're hangin' Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play, 

The regiment's in 'ollow square--they're hangin' him to-day; 

They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away, 

An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'. 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "Danny Deever" 

O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away"; 

But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play. 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "Tommy" 

Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an "Tommy 'ow's yer soul?" 

But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll. 


For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!" 

But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot. 


So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; 

You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man; 

An' 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air-- 

You big black boundin' beggar--for you broke a British square! 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" 

The uniform 'e wore 

Was nothin' much before, 

An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind. 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "Gunga Din" 

Though I've belted you and flayed you, 

By the livin' Gawd that made you, 

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din! 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "Gunga Din" 

'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor 

With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead? 

She 'as ships on the foam--she 'as millions at 'ome, 

An' she pays us poor beggars in red. 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Widow at Windsor" 

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains 

And the women come out to cut up what remains 

Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains 

An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Young British Soldier" 

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, 

There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; 

For the wind is in the palm-trees, an' the temple-bells they say: 

"Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!" 

Come you back to Mandalay,

Where the old Flotilla lay: 

Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay? 

On the road to Mandalay, 

Where the flyin'-fishes play, 

An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay! 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "Mandalay" 

An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot, 

An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot. 


Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, 

Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst. 


We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, 

Baa! Baa! Baa! 

We're little black sheep who've gone astray, 

Baa-aa-aa! 

Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, 

Damned from here to Eternity, 

God ha' mercy on such as we, 

Baa! Yah! Bah! 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "Gentlemen-Rankers" 

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, 

Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgement Seat; 

But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, 

When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of 

earth! 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Ballad of East and West" 

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, 

With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. 

Four things greater than all things are,-- 

Women and Horses and Power and War. 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Ballad of the King's Jest" 

When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, 

Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the 

mould; 

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty 

heart, 

Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it 

Art?" 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Conundrum of the Workshops" 

We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the 

cart; 

But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: "It's clever, but is it 

Art?" 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Conundrum of the Workshops" 

Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro-- 

And what should they know of England who only England know?-- 

The poor little street-bred people that vapour and fume and brag. 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The English Flag" 

For the sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one! 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "Tomlinson"

There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, 

Or the way of a man with a maid; 

But the sweetest way to me is a ship's upon the sea 

In the heel of the North -East Trade. 

Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "L'Envoi" 

What the horses o' Kansas think to-day, the horses of America will think 

tomorrow; an' I tell you that when the horses of America rise in their 

might, the day o' the Oppressor is ended. 

The Day's Work (1898) "A Walking Delegate" 

The toad beneath the harrow knows 

Exactly where each tooth-point goes; 

The butterfly upon the road 

Preaches contentment to that toad. 

Departmental Ditties (1886) "Pagett, MP" 

A Nation spoke to a Nation, 

A Throne sent word to a Throne: 

"Daughter am I in my mother's house, 

But mistress in my own. 

The gates are mine to open, 

As the gates are mine to close, 

And I abide by my Mother's House." 

Said our Lady of the Snows. 

Departmental Ditties (1898 US ed.) "Our Lady of the Snows" 

Who hath desired the Sea?--the sight of salt water unbounded-- 

The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber 

wind-hounded? 

The sleek-barrelled swell before storm, grey, foamless, enormous, and 

growing-- 

Stark calm on the lap of the Line or the crazy-eyed hurricane blowing. 

The Five Nations (1903) "The Sea and the Hills" 

And here the sea-fogs lap and cling 

And here, each warning each, 

The sheep-bells and the ship-bells ring 

Along the hidden beach. 

The Five Nations (1903) "Sussex" 

God gives all men all earth to love, 

But since man's heart is small, 

Ordains for each one spot shall prove 

BelovŠd over all. 

Each to his choice, and I rejoice 

The lot has fallen to me 

In a fair ground--in a fair ground-- 

Yea, Sussex by the sea! 

The Five Nations (1903) "Sussex" 

Then ye returned to your trinkets; then ye contented your souls 

With the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the 

goals. 

The Five Nations (1903) "The Islanders" 

We're foot--slog--slog--slog--sloggin' over Africa!-- 

Foot--foot--foot--foot--sloggin' over Africa-- 

(Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up and down again!)

There's no discharge in the war! 

The Five Nations (1903) "Boots" (for the last line, cf. Oxford 

Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 55:25) 

An' it all goes into the laundry, 

But it never comes out in the wash, 

'Ow we're sugared about by the old men 

('Eavy-sterned amateur old men!) 

That 'amper an' 'inder an' scold men 

For fear o' Stellenbosh! 

The Five Nations (1903) "Stellenbosh" 

For all we have and are, 

For all our children's fate, 

Stand up and take the war. 

The Hun is at the gate! 

For All We Have and Are (1914) p. 1 

There is but one task for all-- 

For each one life to give. 

What stands if freedom fall? 

Who dies if England live? 

For All We Have and Are (1914) p. 2 

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, 

To puff and look important and to say:- 

"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, 

We will therefore pay you cash to go away." 

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; 

But we've proved it again and again, 

That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld 

You never get rid of the Dane. 

History of England (1911) "Dane-Geld" 

"Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, 

With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?" 

"We are going to fetch you your bread and your butter, 

Your beef, pork, and mutton, eggs, apples, and cheese." 

History of England (1911) "Big Steamers" 

Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, 

Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues, 

With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by; 

But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye. 

History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden" 

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made 

By singing:--"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade, 

While better men than we go out and start their working lives 

At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. 


Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees 

That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, 

So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray 

For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away! 

And the Glory of the Garden it shall never pass away! 


Lalun is a member of the most ancient profession in the world.

In Black and White (1888) "On the City Wall" 

"We be one blood, thou and I," Mowgli answered. "I take my life from thee 

to-night. My kill shall be thy kill if ever thou art hungry, O Kaa." 

Jungle Book (1894) "Kaa's Hunting" 

Brother, thy tail hangs down behind! 

The Jungle Book (1894) "Road Song of the Bandar-Log" 

You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved. 

Just So Stories (1902) "How the Whale got his Throat" 

Then the Whale stood up on his Tail and said, "I'm hungry." And the small 

'Stute Fish said in a small 'stute voice, "Noble and generous Cetacean, 

have you ever tasted Man?" "No," said the Whale. "What is it like?" 

"Nice," said the small 'Stute Fish. "Nice but nubbly." 


He had his Mummy's leave to paddle, or else he would never have done it, 

because he was a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity. 


The Camel's hump is an ugly lump 

Which well you may see at the Zoo; 

But uglier yet is the hump we get 

From having too little to do. 

Just So Stories (1902) "How the Camel got his Hump" 

We get the hump-- 

Cameelious hump-- 

The hump that is black and blue! 


The cure for this ill is not to sit still, 

Or frowst with a book by the fire; 

But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, 

And dig till you gently perspire. 


But there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant's Child--who was 

full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many 

questions. 

Just So Stories (1902) "The Elephant's Child" 

Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, "Go to the banks of the 

great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, 

and find out." 


Then the Elephant's Child put his head down close to the Crocodile's 

musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose. At 

this, O Best Beloved, the Elephant's Child was much annoyed, and he said, 

speaking through his nose, like this, "Led go! You are hurtig be!" 


I keep six honest serving-men 

(They taught me all I knew); 

Their names are What and Why and When 

And How and Where and Who. 

Just So Stories (1902) "The Elephant's Child"

Yes, weekly from Southampton, 

Great steamers, white and gold, 

Go rolling down to Rio 

(Roll down--roll down to Rio!). 

And I'd like to roll to Rio 

Some day before I'm old! 

Just So Stories (1902) "Beginning of the Armadilloes" 

But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, 

and all places were alike to him. 

Just So Stories (1902) "The Cat that Walked by Himself" 

And he went back through the Wet Wild Woods, waving his wild tail and 

walking by his wild lone. But he never told anybody. 

Just So Stories (1902) "The Cat that Walked by Himself" 

When [Max] Aitken acquired the Daily Express his political views seemed to 

Kipling to become more and more inconsistent, and one day Kipling asked 

him what he was really up to. Aitken is supposed to have replied: "What I 

want is power. Kiss 'em one day and kick 'em the next"; and so on. "I 

see," said Kipling. "Power without responsibility: the prerogative of the 

harlot throughout the ages." So, many years later, when [Stanley] Baldwin 

deemed it necessary to deal sharply with such lords of the press, he 

obtained leave of his cousin [Kipling] to borrow that telling phrase, 

which he used to some effect on the 18th March, 1931, at...the old Queen's 

Hall in Langham Place. 

Speech by Earl Baldwin to the Kipling Society, 5 Oct. 1971, in Kipling 

Journal Dec. 1971 

If I were hanged on the highest hill, 

Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! 

I know whose love would follow me still, 


If I were drowned in the deepest sea, 


I know whose tears would come down to me, 

Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine. 

If I were damned of body and soul, 

I know whose prayers would make me whole, 

Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine. 

The Light That Failed (1891) dedication 

The man who would be king. 

Title of story (1888) 

And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late 

deceased, 

And the epitaph drear: "A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East." 

The Naulahka (1892) ch. 5 

Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it 

takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. 

Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) "Three and--an Extra" 

Every one is more or less mad on one point. 

Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) "On the Strength of a Likeness"

Of all the trees that grow so fair, 

Old England to adorn, 

Greater are none beneath the Sun, 

Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn. 

Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) "Tree Song" 

England shall bide till Judgement Tide 

By Oak, and Ash, and Thorn! 

Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) "Tree Song" 

What is a woman that you forsake her, 

And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, 

To go with the old grey Widow-maker? 

Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) "Harp Song of the Dane Women" 

If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, 

Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street, 

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. 

Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! 

Five and twenty ponies, 

Trotting through the dark-- 

Brandy for the Parson, 

'Baccy for the Clerk; 

Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, 

Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! 

Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) "Smuggler's Song" 

Land of our birth, we pledge to thee 

Our love and toil in the years to be; 

When we are grown and take our place, 

As men and women with our race. 

Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) "Children's Song" 

Teach us Delight in simple things, 

And Mirth that has no bitter springs; 

Forgiveness free of evil done, 

And Love to all men 'neath the sun! 

Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) "Children's Song" 

The tumult and the shouting dies-- 

The captains and the kings depart-- 

Still stands Thine ancient Sacrifice, 

An humble and a contrite heart. 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget--lest we forget! 

Recessional, in The Times 17 July 1897 

Far-called our navies melt away-- 

On dune and headland sinks the fire-- 

Lo, all our pomp of yesterday 

Is one with Nineveh, and Tyre! 

Recessional, in The Times 17 July 1897 

If, drunk with sight of power, we loose 

Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe-- 

Such boasting as the Gentiles use, 

Or lesser breeds without the Law. 

Recessional, in Times 17 July 1897 

They shut the road through the woods.

Seventy years ago. 

Weather and rain have undone it again, 

And now you would never know 

There was once a road through the woods. 

Rewards and Fairies (1910) "Way through the Woods" 

If you can keep your head when all about you 

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, 

But make allowance for their doubting too; 

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, 

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, 

Or being hated, don't give way to hating, 

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; 

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master; 

If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim, 

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster 

And treat those two imposters just the same... 

Rewards and Fairies (1910) "If--" 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings 

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, 

And lose, and start again at your beginnings 

And never breathe a word about your loss... 


If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 

Or walk with Kings--nor lose the common touch, 

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, 

If all men count with you, but none too much; 

If you can fill the unforgiving minute 

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, 

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, 

And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! 


One man in a thousand, Solomon says, 

Will stick more close than a brother. 

Rewards and Fairies (1910) "The Thousandth Man" 

The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 

Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1919) "The Female of the Species" 

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man-- 

There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:-- 

That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, 

And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire. 

Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1927) "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" 

England's on the anvil--hear the hammers ring-- 

Clanging from the Severn to the Tyne! 

Never was a blacksmith like our Norman King-- 

England's being hammered, hammered, hammered into line! 

Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1927) "The Anvil" 

Now this is the Law of the Jungle--as old and as true as the sky; 

And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall 

break it must die. 

Second Jungle Book (1895) "The Law of the Jungle"

Keep ye the law--be swift in all obedience-- 

Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. 

Make ye sure to each his own 

That he reap where he hath sown; 

By the peace among our peoples let men know we serve the Lord! 

The Seven Seas (1896) "A Song of the English" 

We have fed our sea for a thousand years 

And she calls us, still unfed, 

Though there's never a wave of all her waves 

But marks our English dead: 

We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest 

To the shark and sheering gull. 

If blood be the price of admiralty, 

Lord God, we ha' paid in full! 

The Seven Seas (1896) "The Song of the Dead" 

And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea! 

The Seven Seas (1896) "Last Chantey" 

The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- 

The Man-o'-War 's 'er 'usband, 'an 'e gives 'er all she needs; 

But, oh, the little cargo boats that sail the wet seas roun', 

They're just the same as you 'an me a-plyin' up and down! 

The Seven Seas (1896) "The Liner She's a Lady" 

When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, 

He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; 

An' what he thought 'e might require, 

'E went an' took--the same as me! 

The Seven Seas (1896) p. 162 

I've taken my fun where I've found it, 

An' now I must pay for my fun, 

For the more you 'ave known o' the others 

The less will you settle to one; 

An' the end of it's sittin' and thinkin', 

An' dreamin' Hell-fires to see; 

So be warned by my lot (which I know you will not), 

An' learn about women from me! 

The Seven Seas (1896) "The Ladies" 

An' I learned about women from 'er! 


When you get to a man in the case, 

They're like as a row of pins-- 

For the Colonel 's Lady an' Judy O'Grady 

Are sisters under their skins! 


The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 

'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is own; 

'E keeps 'is side-arms awful: 'e leaves 'em all about, 

An' then comes up the Regiment an' pokes the 'eathen out. 

The Seven Seas (1896) "The 'Eathen" 

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. 

But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! 

The Seven Seas (1896) "The 'Eathen"

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; 

And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, 

But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, 

Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are! 

The Seven Seas (1896) "When Earth's Last Picture is Painted" 

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. 

Speech, 14 Feb. 1923, in The Times 15 Feb. 1923 

Mr Raymond Martin, beyond question, was born in a gutter, and bred in a 

Board-School, where they played marbles. He was further (I give the barest 

handful from great store) a Flopshus Cad, an Outrageous Stinker, a 

Jelly-bellied Flag-flapper (this was Stalky's contribution), and several 

other things which it is not seemly to put down. 

Stalky & Co. (1899) p. 214 

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg 

without salt. 

The Story of the Gadsbys (1889) "Poor Dear Mamma" 

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, 

He travels the fastest who travels alone. 

The Story of the Gadsbys (1890) "L'Envoi" 

'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some 

women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street. 

Traffics and Discoveries (1904) "Mrs Bathurst" 

It's north you may run to the rime-ringed sun, 

Or south to the blind Horn's hate; 

Or east all the way into Mississippi Bay, 

Or west to the Golden Gate. 

Twenty Poems (1918) "The Long Trail" 

A fool there was and he made his prayer 

(Even as you and I!) 

To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair 

(We called her the woman who did not care) 

But the fool he called her his lady fair-- 

(Even as you and I!) 

The Vampire (1897) p. 1 

Take up the White Man's burden-- 

Send forth the best ye breed-- 

Go, bind your sons to exile 

To serve your captives' need; 

To wait, in heavy harness, 

On fluttered folk and wild-- 

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, 

Half devil and half child. 

The White Man's Burden (1899) 

By all ye will or whisper, 

By all ye leave or do, 

The silent sullen peoples 

Shall weigh your God and you. 

The White Man's Burden (1899) 

If any question why we died,

Tell them, because our fathers lied. 

The Years Between (1919) "Common Form" 

11.34 Henry Kissinger 

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1923- 

"We are the President's men," he [Kissinger] would exclaim, "and we must 

behave accordingly." 

M. and B. Kalb Kissinger (1974) ch. 7 

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. 

In New York Times Magazine 1 June 1969, p. 11 

Power, he [Kissinger] has observed, "is the great aphrodisiac." 

New York Times 19 Jan. 1971, p. 12 

11.35 Fred Kitchen 

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1872-1950 

Meredith, we're in! 

Catch-phrase originating in The Bailiff (1907 stage sketch)--see J. P. 

Gallagher Fred Karno (1971) ch. 9, p. 90 

11.36 Lord Kitchener 

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1850-1916 

You are ordered abroad as a soldier of the King to help our French 

comrades against the invasion of a common enemy. You have to perform a 

task which will need your courage, your energy, your patience. Remember 

that the honour of the British Army depends on your individual conduct. It 

will be your duty not only to set an example of discipline and perfect 

steadiness under fire, but also to maintain the most friendly relations 

with those whom you are helping in this struggle. The operations in which 

you are engaged will, for the most part, take place in a friendly country, 

and you can do your own country no better service than in showing yourself 

in France and Belgium in the true character of a British soldier. 

Be invariably courteous, considerate, and kind. Never do anything likely 

to injure or destroy property, and always look upon looting as a 

disgraceful act. You are sure to meet with a welcome and to be trusted; 

your conduct must justify that welcome and that trust. 

Your duty cannot be done unless your health is sound. So keep constantly 

on your guard against any excesses. In this new experience you may find 

temptations both in wine and women. You must entirely resist both 

temptations, and, while treating all women with perfect courtesy, you 

should avoid any intimacy. Do your duty bravely. Fear God. Honour the 

King. 

Message to soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (1914), in The 

Times 19 Aug. 1914 

11.37 Paul Klee 

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Eine aktive Linie, die sich frei ergeht, ein Spaziergang um seiner selbst 

willen, ohne Ziel. Das agens ist ein Punkt, der sich verschiebt. 

An active line on a walk, moving freely without a goal. A walk for walk's 

sake. 

P„dagogisches Skizzenbuch (Pedagogical Sketchbook, 1925) p. 6 

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. 

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. 

Sch”pferische Konfession (Creative Credo, 1920) in Im Zwischenreich 

(1957) (Inward Vision, 1958) p. 5 

11.38 Charles Knight and Kenneth Lyle 

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Here we are! here we are!! here we are again!!! 

There's Pat and Mac and Tommy and Jack and Joe. 

When there's trouble brewing, 

When there's something doing, 

Are we downhearted? 

No! Let 'em all come! 

Here we are! Here we are again!! (1914 song) 

11.39 Frederick Knott 

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1916- 

Dial "M" for murder. 


11.40 Monsignor Ronald Knox 

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1888-1957 

There once was a man who said, "God 

Must think it exceedingly odd 

If he finds that this tree 

Continues to be 

When there's no one about in the Quad." 

In Langford Reed Complete Limerick Book (1924) p. 44 (This reply was 

written by an unknown author) 

Dear Sir, 

Your astonishment's odd: 

I am always about in the Quad. 

And that's why the tree 

Will continue to be, 

Since observed by 

Yours faithfully, 

God.) 

The tumult and the shouting dies, 

The captains and the kings depart, 

And we are left with large supplies 

Of cold blancmange and rhubarb tart.

In R. Eyres In Three Tongues (1959) p. 130 "After the Party"--a parody of 

Kipling 126:9 

It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the 

devil, when he is the only explanation of it. 

Let Dons Delight (1939) ch. 8 

11.41 Arthur Koestler 

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1905-1983 

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the 

beating of war drums. 

Janus (1978) prologue 

Man can leave the earth and land on the moon, but cannot cross from East 

to West Berlin. Prometheus reaches for the stars with an insane grin on 

his face and a totem-symbol in his hand. 

Janus (1978) prologue 

11.42 Jiddu Krishnamurti 

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d. 1986 

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by 

any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. 

Speech in Holland, 3 Aug. 1929, in Lilly Heber Krishnamurti (1931) ch. 2 

11.43 Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster 

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Kris Kristofferson 1936- 

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose, 

Nothin' ain't worth nothin', but it's free. 

Me and Bobby McGee (1969 song) 

11.44 Joseph Wood Krutch 

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1893-1970 

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not 

Puritanism but February. 

Twelve Seasons (1949) "February" 

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for 

what you want. 

Twelve Seasons (1949) "February" 

11.45 Stanley Kubrick 

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1928- 

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations 

like prostitutes.

In Guardian 5 June 1963 

11.46 Satish Kumar 

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1937- 

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth. 

Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust. 

Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace. 

Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe. 

Prayer for Peace (1981; adapted from the Upanishads) 

12.0 L 

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12.1 Henry Labouchere 

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1831-1912 

Mr Labouchere's jest about Mr Gladstone laying upon Providence the 

responsibility of always placing the ace of trumps up his sleeve was a 

good one. In one of his private letters I find the quip worded a little 

more pungently. "Who cannot refrain," he says, referring to the then Prime 

Minister, "from perpetually bringing an ace down his sleeve, even when he 

has only to play fair to win the trick." 

A. L. Thorold Life of Henry Labouchere (1913) ch. 15. Cf. Earl Curzon's 

Modern Parliamentary Eloquence (1913) p. 25 "I recall a phrase of that 

incorrigible cynic Labouchere, alluding to Mr Gladstone's frequent appeals 

to a higher power, that he did not object to the old man always having a 

card up his sleeve, but he did object to his insinuating that the Almighty 

had placed it there." 

12.2 Fiorello La Guardia 

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1882-1947 

When I make a mistake, it's a beaut! 

In William Manners Patience and Fortitude (1976) p. 219 (on the 

appointment of Herbert O'Brien as a judge in 1936) 

12.3 R. D. Laing 

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1927-1989 

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. 

The Divided Self (1960) ch. 2 

Few books today are forgivable. 

Politics of Experience (1967) introduction 

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. 

Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 3 

The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their

circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our 

freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of 

mankind and to be blown up in turn. 


Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is 

potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential 

death. 


The experience and behaviour that gets labelled schizophrenic is a special 

strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. 


12.4 Arthur J. Lamb 

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1870-1928 

She's a bird in a gilded cage. 

Title of song (1900; music by Harry von Tilzer) 

12.5 Constant Lambert 

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1905-1951 

To put it vulgarly, the whole trouble with a folk song is that once you 

have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it 

over again and play it rather louder. 

Music Ho! (1934) ch. 3 

The average English critic is a don manqu‚, hopelessly parochial when not 

exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto 

(presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm." 

Opera Dec. 1950 

12.6 Giuseppe di Lampedusa 

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1896-1957 

Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come Š, bisogna che tutto cambi. 

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. 

Il Gattopardo (The Leopard, 1957) p. 33 

12.7 Sir Osbert Lancaster 

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1908-1986 

Today, when the passer-by is a little unnerved at being suddenly 

confronted with a hundred and fifty accurate reproductions of Anne 

Hathaway's cottage, each complete with central heating and garage, he 

should pause to reflect on the extraordinary fact that all over the 

country the latest and most scientific methods of mass-production are 

being utilized to turn out a stream of old oak beams, leaded window-panes 

and small discs of bottle-glass, all structural devices which our 

ancestors lost no time in abandoning as soon as an increase in wealth and

knowledge enabled them to do so. 

Pillar to Post (1938) "Stockbroker's Tudor" 

12.8 Bert Lance 

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1931- 

Bert Lance believes he can save Uncle Sam billions if he can get the 

government to adopt a single motto: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." He 

explains: "That's the trouble with government: Fixing things that aren't 

broken and not fixing things that are broken." 

Nation's Business 27 May 1977 

12.9 Andrew Lang 

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1844-1912 

St Andrews by the Northern sea, 

A haunted town it is to me! 

Ballades and Verses Vain (1884) p. 79 

They hear like ocean on a western beach 

The surge and thunder of the Odyssey. 

Poetical Works (1923) vol. 2, "The Odyssey" 

If the wild bowler thinks he bowls, 

Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled, 

They know not, poor misguided souls, 

They too shall perish unconsoled. 

I am the batsman and the bat, 

I am the bowler and the ball, 

The umpire, the pavilion cat, 

The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all. 

Poetical Works (1923) vol. 2, "Brahma" (a parody of Emerson--see Oxford 

Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 206:17) 

12.10 Julia Lang 

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1921- 

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin. 

Introduction to stories on Listen with Mother, BBC Radio programme, 

1950-1982 (sometimes "Then I'll begin") 

12.11 Suzanne K. Langer 

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1895-1985 

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. 

Mind (1967) vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 4 

12.12 Ring Lardner 

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1885-1933

Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly. 

Shut up he explained. 

The Young Immigrunts (1920) ch. 10 

12.13 Philip Larkin 

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1922-1985 

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: 

The sun-comprehending glass, 

And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows 

Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless. 

High Windows (1974) "High Windows" 

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms 

Inside your head, and people in them, acting. 

People you know, yet can't quite name. 

High Windows (1974) "The Old Fools" 

Next year we are to bring the soldiers home 

For lack of money, and it is all right. 

Places they guarded, or kept orderly, 

Must guard themselves, and keep themselves orderly. 

High Windows (1974) "Homage to a Government" 

Next year we shall be living in a country 

That brought its soldiers home for lack of money. 

The statues will be standing in the same 

Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same. 

Our children will not know it's a different country. 

All we can hope to leave them now is money. 

High Windows (1974) "Homage to a Government" 

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. 

They may not mean to, but they do. 

They fill you with the faults they had 

And add some extra, just for you. 

High Windows (1974) "This Be The Verse" 

Man hands on misery to man. 

It deepens like a coastal shelf. 

Get out as early as you can, 

And don't have any kids yourself. 

High Windows (1974) "This Be The Verse" 

Sexual intercourse began 

In nineteen sixty-three 

(Which was rather late for me)-- 

Between the end of the Chatterley ban 

And the Beatles' first LP. 

High Windows (1974) "Annus Mirabilis" 

Hatless, I take off 

My cycle-clips in awkward reverence. 

The Less Deceived (1955) "Church Going" 

A serious house on serious earth it is, 

In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, 

Are recognised, and robed as destinies.

The Less Deceived (1955) "Church Going" 

Why should I let the toad work 

Squat on my life? 

Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork 

And drive the brute off? 

Six days of the week it soils 

With its sickening poison-- 

Just for paying a few bills! 

That's out of proportion. 

The Less Deceived (1955) "Toads" 

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere. 

The Less Deceived (1955) "I Remember, I Remember" 

Far too many [of the books entered for the 1977 Booker Prize] relied on 

the classic formula of a beginning, a muddle, and an end. 

New Fiction no. 15, Jan. 1978 

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. 

Reply to question "Do you think people go around feeling they haven't got 

out of life what life has to offer?"- Required Writing (1983) p. 47 

Give me your arm, old toad; 

Help me down Cemetery Road. 

The Whitsun Weddings (1964) "Toads Revisited" 

I thought of London spread out in the sun, 

Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat. 

The Whitsun Weddings (1964) "The Whitsun Weddings" 

What are days for? 

Days are where we live. 

They come, they wake us 

Time and time over. 

They are to be happy in: 

Where can we live but days? 

The Whitsun Weddings (1964) "Days" 

Never such innocence, 

Never before or since, 

As changed itself to past 

Without a word--the men 

Leaving the gardens tidy, 

The thousands of marriages 

Lasting a little while longer: 

Never such innocence again. 

The Whitsun Weddings (1964) "MCMXIV" 

Don't read too much now: the dude 

Who lets the girl down before 

The hero arrives, the chap 

Who's yellow and keeps the store, 

Seem far too familiar. Get stewed: 

Books are a load of crap. 

The Whitsun Weddings (1964) "Study of Reading Habits" 

Life is first boredom, then fear. 

Whether or not we use it, it goes, 

And leaves what something hidden from us chose,

And age, and then the only end of age. 

The Whitsun Weddings (1964) "Dockery & Son" 

Time has transfigured them into 

Untruth. The stone fidelity 

They hardly meant has come to be 

Their final blazon, and to prove 

Our almost-instinct almost true: 

What will survive of us is love. 

The Whitsun Weddings (1964) "An Arundel Tomb" 

12.14 Sir Harry Lauder 

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1870-1950 

Keep right on to the end of the road, 

Keep right on to the end. 

Tho' the way be long, let your heart be strong, 

Keep right on round the bend. 

Tho' you're tired and weary, 

Still journey on 

Till you come to your happy abode, 

Where all you love you've been dreaming of 

Will be there at the end of the road. 

The End of the Road (1924 song) 

I love a lassie, a bonnie, bonnie lassie, 

She's as pure as the lily in the dell. 

She's as sweet as the heather, the bonnie bloomin' heather-- 

Mary, ma Scotch Bluebell. 

I Love a Lassie (1905 song) 

It's nice to get up in the mornin' (but it's nicer to lie in bed). 


Roamin' in the gloamin', 

On the bonnie banks o' Clyde. 

Roamin' in the gloamin' 

Wae my lassie by my side. 

Roamin' in the Gloamin' (1911 song) 

12.15 Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) 

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1890-1965 

Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into. 

Another Fine Mess (1930 film; words spoken by Oliver Hardy in many Laurel 

and Hardy films: often "another fine mess") 

Why don't you do something to help me? 

Drivers' Licence Sketch (1947), in J. McCabe Comedy World of Stan Laurel 

(1974) p. 107 (words spoken by Oliver Hardy) 

12.16 James Laver 

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1899-1975

The same costume will be 

Indecent ... 10 years before its time 

Shameless ... 5 years before its time 

Outr‚ (daring) ... 1 year before its time 

Smart 

Dowdy ... 1 year after its time 

Hideous ... 10 years after its time 

Ridiculous ... 20 years after its time 

Amusing ... 30 years after its time 

Quaint ... 50 years after its time 

Charming ... 70 years after its time 

Romantic ... 100 years after its time 

Beautiful ... 150 years after its time 

Taste and Fashion (1937) ch. 18 

12.17 Andrew Bonar Law 

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1858-1923 

See Bonar Law (2.100) 

12.18 D. H. Lawrence 

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1885-1930 

Is it the secret of the long-nosed Etruscans? 

The long-nosed, sensitive-footed, subtly-smiling Etruscans 

Who made so little noise outside the cypress groves? 

Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) "Cypresses" 

Men! The only animal in the world to fear! 

Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) "Mountain Lion" 

A snake came to my water-trough 

On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, 

To drink there. 

Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) "Snake" 

And I thought of the albatross, 

And I wished he would come back, my snake. 

For he seemed to me again like a king, 

Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld, 

Now due to be crowned again. 

And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords 

Of life. 

And I have something to expiate: 

A pettiness. 

Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) "Snake" 

Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling 

invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the 

snivelling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up 

England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is 

that watery it's a marvel they can breed. They can nothing but 

frog-spawn--the gibberers! God, how I hate them! 

Letter to Edward Garnett, 3 July 1912, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 1, 

p. 134

I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze. 

Letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith,?25 Nov. 1913, in Collected Letters (1962) 

vol. 1, p. 246 

The dead don't die. They look on and help. 

Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 2 Feb. 1923, in Collected Letters (1962) 

vol. 2, p. 736 

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go 

south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one 

like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, 

and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers. 

Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 3 Oct. 1924, in Collected Letters (1962) 

vol. 2, p. 812 

I'd like to write an essay on [Arnold] Bennett--sort of pig in clover. 

Letter to Aldous Huxley, 27 Mar. 1928, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 2, 

p. 1048 

My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags 

and cabbage-stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in 

the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness. 

Letter to Aldous and Maria Huxley, 15 Aug. 1928, in Collected Letters 

(1962) vol. 2, p. 1074 

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says. 

Etruscan Places (1932) "Cerveteri" 

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. 

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) ch. 1 

Some things can't be ravished. You can't ravish a tin of sardines. 


John Thomas says good-night to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a 

hopeful heart. 


Now it is autumn and the falling fruit 

And the long journey towards oblivion... 

Have you built your ship of death, O have you? 

O build your ship of death, for you will need it. 

Last Poems (1932) "Ship of Death" 

Along the avenue of cypresses 

All in their scarlet cloaks, and surplices 

Of linen go the chanting choristers, 

The priests in gold and black, the villagers. 

Look! We Have Come Through! (1917) "Giorno dei Morti" 

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! 

A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. 

Look! We Have Come Through! (1917) "Song of a Man who has Come Through" 

So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour 

With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour 

Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast 

Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. 

New Poems (1918) "Piano"

Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, 

don't swallow the culture bait, 

don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, 

do learn to discriminate. 

Pansies (1929) "Don'ts" 

How beastly the bourgeois is 

Especially the male of the species. 

Pansies (1929) "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is" 

I never saw a wild thing 

Sorry for itself. 

Pansies (1929) "Self-Pity" 

For while we have sex in the mind, we truly have none in the body. 

Pansies (1929) "Leave Sex Alone" 

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder 

That such trivial people should muse and thunder 

In such lovely language. 

Pansies (1929) "When I Read Shakespeare" 

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. 

Phoenix (1936) "Pornography and Obscenity" ch. 3 

The very first copy of The White Peacock that was ever sent out, I put 

into my mother's hands when she was dying. She looked at the outside, and 

then at the title-page, and then at me, with darkening eyes. And though 

she loved me so much, I think she doubted whether it could be much of a 

book, since no one more important than I had written it. Somewhere, in the 

helpless privacies of her being, she had wistful respect for me. But for 

me in the face of the world, not much. This David would never get a stone 

across at Goliath. And why try? Let Goliath alone! Anyway, she was beyond 

reading my first immortal work. It was put aside, and I never wanted to 

see it again. She never saw it again. 

After the funeral, my father struggled through half a page, and it might 

as well have been Hottentot. 

"And what dun they gi'e thee for that, lad?" 

"Fifty pounds, father." 

"Fifty pounds!" He was dumbfounded, and looked at me with shrewd eyes, as 

if I were a swindler. "Fifty pounds! An' tha's niver done a day's hard 

work in thy life." 

Phoenix (1936) p. 232 

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic 

is to save the tale from the artist who created it. 

Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1 

"Be a good animal, true to your instincts," was his motto. 

White Peacock (1911) pt. 2, ch. 2 

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just 

uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? 

Women in Love (1920) ch. 11

12.19 T. E. Lawrence 

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1885-1930 

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper to escape the 

life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. 

The Mint (1955) pt. 1, ch. 4 

The seven pillars of wisdom. 

Title of book (1926). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 53:27 

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my 

will across the sky in stars 

To earn you Freedom, the seven pillared worthy house, that your eyes 

might be shining for me 

When we came. 

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) dedication "to S.A." 

12.20 Sir Edmund Leach 

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1910- 

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow 

privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. 

BBC Reith Lectures, 1967, in Listener 30 Nov. 1967 

12.21 Stephen Leacock 

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1869-1944 

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and 

say: "Willie, is no good; I'll sell him." 

Essays and Literary Studies (1916) "Lot of a Schoolmaster" 

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human 

intelligence long enough to get money from it. 

Garden of Folly (1924) "The Perfect Salesman" 

I am what is called a professor emeritus--from the Latin e, "out," and 

meritus, "so he ought to be." 

Here are my Lectures (1938) ch. 14 

There are no handles to a horse, but the 1910 model has a string to each 

side of its face for turning its head when there is anything you want it 

to see. 

Literary Lapses (1910) "Reflections on Riding" 

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day 

die, which is not so. 

Literary Lapses (1910) "Insurance up to Date" 

Get your room full of good air, then shut up the windows and keep it. It 

will keep for years. Anyway, don't keep using your lungs all the time. Let 

them rest. 

Literary Lapses (1910) "How to Live to be 200" 

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and

kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big 

enough. 

My Remarkable Uncle (1942) p. 73 

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself 

upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. 

Nonsense Novels (1911) "Gertrude the Governess" 

A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on 

Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of 

moral effort. 

Over the Footlights (1923) "Why I Refuse to Play Golf" 

The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry, is to see that no 

shirt or collar ever comes back twice. 

Winnowed Wisdom (1926) ch. 6 

12.22 Timothy Leary 

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1920- 

If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system 

seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy 

process seriously, you must turn on, tune in and drop out. 

Lecture, June 1966, in Politics of Ecstasy (1968) ch. 21 

12.23 F. R. Leavis 

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1895-1978 

It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great--the major 

novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that 

they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and 

readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness 

they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. 

The Great Tradition (1948) ch. 1 

The Sitwells belong to the history of publicity rather than of poetry. 

New Bearings in English Poetry (1932) ch. 2 

12.24 Fran Lebowitz 

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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in 

fact, barely presentable. 

Metropolitan Life (1978) p. 6 

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. 

Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behaviour. 


Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. 


Food is an important part of a balanced diet. 

Metropolitan Life (1978) p. 110

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. 

To actual women, it is merely a good excuse not to play football. 


12.25 Stanislaw Lec 

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1909-1966 

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? 

Mysli Nieuczesane (Unkempt Thoughts, 1962) p. 78 

12.26 John le Carr‚ (David John Moore Cornwell) 

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1931- 

The spy who came in from the cold. 


12.27 Le Corbusier (Charles douard Jeanneret) 

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1887-1965 

Une maison est une machine-…-habiter. 

A house is a machine for living in. 

Vers une architecture (Towards an Architecture, 1923) p. ix 

12.28 Harper Lee 

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1926- 

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a 

sin to kill a mockingbird. 

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) ch. 10 

12.29 Laurie Lee 

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1914- 

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with 

a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began. 

Cider with Rosie (1959) p. 9 

Such a morning it is when love 

leans through geranium windows 

and calls with a cockerel's tongue. 

When red-haired girls scamper like roses 

over the rain-green grass, 

and the sun drips honey. 

Sun is my Monument (1947) "Day of these Days" 

12.30 Ernest Lehman 

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Somebody up there likes me. 


Sweet smell of success. 

Title of book and film (1957) 

12.31 Tom Lehrer 

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1928- 

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into 

it. 

Preamble to song "We Will All Go Together When We Go," in An Evening 

Wasted with Tom Lehrer (1953 record album) 

Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes, 

Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, 

So don't shade your eyes but plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize! 

Lobachevski (1953 song) 

And we will all go together when we go-- 

Every Hottentot and every Eskimo. 

We Will All Go Together When We Go (1953 song) 

12.32 Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 

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Jerry Leiber 1933- 

Mike Stoller 1933- 

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog, 

Cryin' all the time. 

Hound Dog (1956 song) 

12.33 Fred W. Leigh 

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d. 1924 

There was I, waiting at the church, 

Waiting at the church, waiting at the church, 

When I found he'd left me in the lurch, 

Lor, how it did upset me! 

All at once he sent me round a note, 

Here's the very note, 

This is what he wrote-- 

"Can't get away to marry you today, 

My wife won't let me!" 

Waiting at the Church (My Wife Won't Let Me) (1906 song; music by Henry 

E. Pether) 

12.34 Fred W. Leigh, Charles Collins, and Lily Morris 

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Fred W. Leigh d. 1924

Why am I always the bridesmaid, 

Never the blushing bride? 

Why Am I Always the Bridesmaid? (1917 song) 

12.35 Fred W. Leigh and George Arthurs 

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Fred W. Leigh d. 1924 

A little of what you fancy does you good. 


12.36 Curtis E. LeMay 

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1906-1990 

My solution to the problem would be to tell them [the North Vietnamese] 

frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, 

or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age. 

Mission with LeMay (1965) p. 565 

12.37 Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov) 

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1870-1924 

We must now set about building a proletarian socialist state in Russia. 

Speech in Petrograd, 7 Nov. 1917, in Collected Works (1964) vol. 26, p. 

240 

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. 

Report to 8th Congress, 1920, in Collected Works (ed. 5) vol. 42, p. 30 

He [George Bernard Shaw] is a good man fallen among Fabians. 

In Arthur Ransome Six Weeks in Russia in 1919 (1919) "Notes of 

Conversations with Lenin" 

It is true that liberty is precious--so precious that it must be rationed. 

In Sidney and Beatrice Webb Soviet Communism (1936) p. 1036 

No, Democracy is not identical with majority rule. No, Democracy is a 

State which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, 

that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class 

against the other, by one part of the population against another. 

State and Revolution (1919) ch. 4 

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom 

there will be no State. 

State and Revolution (1919) ch. 5 

12.38 John Lennon 

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1940-1980 

Imagine there's no heaven, 

It's easy if you try, 

No hell below us,

Above us only sky, 

Imagine all the people 

Living for today. 

Imagine (1971 song) 

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, 

if you'll just rattle your jewellery. 

At Royal Variety Performance, 4 Nov. 1963, in R. Colman John Winston 

Lennon (1984) pt. 1, ch. 11 

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about 

that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're [the Beatles are] more 

popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first--rock 'n' roll or 

Christianity. 

Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda 

Fitzgerald 

12.39 John Lennon and Paul McCartney 

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John Lennon 1940-1980 

Paul McCartney 1942- 

All you need is love. 


Back in the USSR. 


For I don't care too much for money, 

For money can't buy me love. 

Can't Buy Me Love (1964 song) 

I heard the news today, oh boy. 

Four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire. 

And though the holes were rather small, 

They had to count them all. 

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall. 

I'd love to turn you on. 

A Day in the Life (1967 song) 

Give peace a chance. 


It's been a hard day's night, 

And I've been working like a dog. 

A Hard Day's Night (1964 song) 

Magical mystery tour. 

Title of song and TV film (1967) 

She loves you, yeh, yeh, yeh, 

And with a love like that, you know you should be glad. 

She Loves You (1963 song) 

Strawberry fields forever. 


She's got a ticket to ride, but she don't care.

Ticket to Ride (1965 song) 

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, 

When I'm sixty four? 

When I'm Sixty Four (1967 song) 

Oh I get by with a little help from my friends. 

With a Little Help From My Friends (1967 song) 

We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine. 

Yellow Submarine (1966 song) 

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, 

Now it looks as though they're here to stay. 

Oh I believe in yesterday. 

Yesterday (1965 song) 

12.40 Dan Leno (George Galvin) 

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1860-1904 

Ah! what is man? Wherefore does he why? Whence did he whence? Whither is 

he withering? 

Dan Leno Hys Booke (1901) ch. 1 

12.41 Alan Jay Lerner 

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1918-1986 

I'm getting married in the morning, 

Ding! dong! the bells are gonna chime. 

Pull out the stopper; 

Let's have a whopper; 

But get me to the church on time! 

Get Me to the Church on Time (1956 song; music by Frederick Loewe) 

Why can't a woman be more like a man? 

Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; 

Eternally noble, historically fair; 

Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. 

Why can't a woman be like that? 

A Hymn to Him (1956 song; music by Frederick Loewe) 

Ah yes! I remember it well. 

I Remember it Well (1958 song; music by Frederick Loewe) 

I've grown accustomed to the trace 

Of something in the air; 

Accustomed to her face. 

I've Grown Accustomed to her Face (1956 song; music by Frederick Loewe) 

On a clear day (you can see forever). 

Title of song from musical On a Clear Day (1965; music by Burton Lane) 

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. 

The Rain in Spain (1956 song; music by Frederick Loewe) 

Thank heaven for little girls!

For little girls get bigger every day. 

Thank Heaven for Little Girls (1958 song; music by Frederick Loewe) 

All I want is a room somewhere, 

Far away from the cold night air, 

With one enormous chair; 

Oh, wouldn't it be loverly? 

Wouldn't it be Loverly (1956 song; music by Frederick Loewe) 

12.42 Doris Lessing 

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1919- 

There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the 

second-best is anything but the second-best. 

Golden Notebook (1962) p. 554 

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and 

sees the human being (which it is his chief preoccupation to avoid), his 

sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down 

the whip. 

The Grass is Singing (1950) ch. 8 

12.43 Winifred Mary Letts 

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1882-1972 

I saw the spires of Oxford 

As I was passing by, 

The grey spires of Oxford 

Against a pearl-grey sky; 

My heart was with the Oxford men 

Who went abroad to die. 

Hallow-e'en (1916) "The Spires of Oxford" 

12.44 Oscar Levant 

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1906-1972 

Epigram: a wisecrack that played Carnegie Hall. 

Coronet Sept. 1958 

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. 

Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965) ch. 11 

I don't drink liquor. I don't like it. It makes me feel good. 

Time 5 May 1958 

12.45 Ros Levenstein 

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I'm only here for the beer. 

Slogan for Double Diamond beer, 1971 onwards, in Nigel Rees Slogans (1982) 

p. 11 

12.46 Viscount Leverhulme (William Hesketh Lever)

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1851-1925 

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I 

don't know which half. 

In David Ogilvy Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963) ch. 3 

12.47 Ada Leverson 

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1865-1936 

He [Oscar Wilde] seemed at ease and to have the look of the last gentleman 

in Europe. 

Letters to the Sphinx (1930) p. 34 

You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her. 

Tenterhooks (1912) ch. 7 

12.48 Bernard Levin 

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1928- 

[Tony] Benn flung himself into the Sixties technology with the enthusiasm 

(not to say language) of a newly enrolled Boy Scout demonstrating 

knot-tying to his indulgent parents. 

The Pendulum Years (1970) ch. 11 

I have heard tell of a Professor of Economics who has a sign on the wall 

of his study, reading "the future is not what it was." The sentiment was 

admirable 

unfortunately, the past is not getting any better either. 

Sunday Times 22 May 1977 

12.49 Claude L‚vi-Strauss 

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1908- 

La langue est une raison humaine qui a ses raisons, et que l'homme ne 

connaŒt pas. 

Language is a form of human reason and has its reasons which are unknown 

to man. 

La Pens‚e sauvage (The Savage Mind, 1962) ch. 9. Cf. Pascal in Oxford 

Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 369:10 

12.50 Cecil Day Lewis 

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See C. Day-Lewis (4.11) 

12.51 C. S. Lewis 

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1898-1963

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. 

Screwtape Letters (1942) preface 

We have trained them [men] to think of the Future as a promised land which 

favoured heroes attain--not as something which everyone reaches at the 

rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. 

Screwtape Letters (1942) no. 25 

She's the sort of woman who lives for others--you can always tell the 

others by their hunted expression. 

Screwtape Letters (1942) no. 26 

I remember summing up what I took to be our destiny, in conversation with 

my best friend at Chartres, by the formula, "Term, holidays, term, 

holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die." 

Suprised by Joy (1955) ch. 4 

12.52 John Spedan Lewis 

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1885-1963 

Service to customers: never knowingly undersold. 

Slogan (circa 1920) in Partnership for All (1948) ch. 29 

12.53 Percy Wyndham Lewis 

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1882-1957 

"The Art of Being Ruled" might be described from some points of view as an 

infernal Utopia....An account, comprising many chapters, of the decadence 

occupying the trough between the two world wars introduces us to a moronic 

inferno of insipidity and decay (which is likewise the inferno of "The 

Apes of God"). 

Rude Assignment (1950) ch. 31 

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding. We can 

represent it as a cold suet-roll of fabulously-reptilian length. Cut it at 

any point, it is the same thing; the same heavy, sticky, opaque mass all 

through, and all along. It is weighted, projected, with a sibylline urge. 

It is mournful and monstrous, composed of dead and inanimate material. It 

is all fat, without nerve. Or the evident vitality that informs it is 

vegetable rather than animal. Its life is a low-grade, if tenacious one; 

of the sausage, by-the-yard, variety. 

Time and Western Man (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13 

12.54 Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young 

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Sam M. Lewis 1885-1959 

Joe Young 1889-1939 

How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm (after they've seen Paree)? 

Title of song (1919; music by Walter Donaldson) 

12.55 Sinclair Lewis 

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1885-1951 

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and 

very dead. 

The American Fear of Literature (Nobel Prize Address, 12 Dec. 1930), in 

H. Frenz Literature 1901-1967 (1969) p. 285 

His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 

1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor 

poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than 

people could afford to pay. 

Babbitt (1922) ch. 1 

To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor 

car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate 

ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore. 


In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums 

living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the 

successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other 

decent business man. 


It can't happen here. 


12.56 Robert Ley 

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1890-1945 

Kraft durch Freude. 

Strength through joy. 

German Labour Front slogan, in The Times 30 Nov. 1933, p. 13 

12.57 Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 

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1919-1987 

He [Liberace] begins to belabour the critics announcing that he doesn't 

mind what they say but that poor George [his brother] "cried all the way 

to the bank." 

Collier's 17 Sept. 1954 (Cf. Liberace's Autobiography (1973) ch. 2: "When 

the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the 

way to the bank") 

12.58 Beatrice Lillie 

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1894-1989 

At one early, glittering dinner party at Buckingham Palace, the trembling 

hand of a nervous waiter spilled a spoonful of decidedly hot soup down my 

neck. How could I manage to ease his mind and turn his embarrassed 

apologies into a smile, except to put on a pretended frown and say, 

without thinking: "Never darken my Dior again!" 

Every Other Inch a Lady (1973) ch. 14

12.59 R. M. Lindner 

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1914-1956 

Rebel without a cause...the hypnoanalysis of a criminal psychopath. 


12.60 Audrey Erskine Lindop 

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1920-1986 

The singer not the song. 


12.61 Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse 

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Howard Lindsay 1888-1968 

Russel Crouse 1893-1966 

Call me madam. 

Title of musical (1950; music by Irving Berlin) 

12.62 Vachel Lindsay 

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1879-1931 

Booth led boldly with his big brass drum-- 

(Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?) 

The Saints smiled gravely and they said: "He's come." 


Walking Lepers followed, rank on rank, 

Lurching bravos from the ditches dank, 

Drabs from the alleyways and drug fiends pale-- 

Minds still passion-ridden, soul-power frail:-- 

Vermin-eaten saints with moldy breath, 

Unwashed legions with the ways of Death-- 


Collected Poems (1934) "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" (1913) 

Booth died blind and still by faith he trod, 

Eyes still dazzled by the ways of God. 

Collected Poems (1934) "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" (1913) 

Then I saw the congo, creeping through the black, 

Cutting through the forest with a golden track. 

The Congo and Other Poems (1922) "The Congo" (1914) pt. 1 

12.63 Eric Linklater 

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1899-1974 

"There won't be any revolution in America," said Isadore. Nikitin agreed. 

"The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing their

shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in 

a bathroom." 

Juan in America (1931) bk. 5, pt. 3 

12.64 Art Linkletter 

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1912- 

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and 

obsolescence. 

A Child's Garden of Misinformation (1965) ch. 8 

12.65 Walter Lippmann 

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1889-1974 

Mr Coolidge's genius for inactivity is developed to a very high point. It 

is far from being an indolent activity. It is a grim, determined, alert 

inactivity which keeps Mr Coolidge occupied constantly. Nobody has ever 

worked harder at inactivity, with such force of character, with such 

unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the 

task. Inactivity is a political philosophy and a party program with Mr 

Coolidge. 

Men of Destiny (1927) p. 12 

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the 

conviction and the will to carry on. 

New York Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 1945 

12.66 Joan Littlewood and Charles Chilton 

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1914- 

Oh what a lovely war. 

Title of stage show (1963) 

12.67 Maxim Litvinov 

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1876-1951 

Peace is indivisible. 

Note to the Allies, 25 Feb. 1920, in A. U. Pope Maxim Litvinoff (1943) p. 

234 

12.68 Ken Livingstone 

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1945- 

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the 

wine bars and brothels of Westminster. 

The Times 19 Feb. 1987 

12.69 Richard Llewellyn (Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd) 

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1907-1983 

How green was my valley. 


12.70 Jack Llewelyn-Davies 

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1894-1959 

Little Mary [by J.M. Barrie] opened at Wyndham's Theatre on September 

24th, 1903, and...it contained a sprinkling of lines contributed by the 

boys, including a remark from Jack [Llewelyn-Davies]. When stuffing 

himself with cakes at tea, Sylvia had warned him, "You'll be sick 

tomorrow." "I'll be sick tonight," replied Jack cheerily. 

Andrew Birkin J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys (1979) p. 99 

12.71 David Lloyd George (Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor) 

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1863-1945 

Negotiating with de Valera...is like trying to pick up mercury with a 

fork. 

In M. J. MacManus Eamon de Valera (1944) ch. 6 (to which de Valera 

replied, "Why doesn't he use a spoon?") 

This [The House of Lords] is the leal and trusty mastiff which is to watch 

over our interests, but which runs away at the first snarl of the trade 

unions....A mastiff? It is the right hon. Gentleman's [Mr Balfour's] 

poodle. 


Those are the conditions of the armistice. Thus at eleven o'clock this 

morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever 

scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came 

to an end all wars. 

Hansard 11 Nov. 1918, col. 2463. Cf. H. G. Wells 225:4 

Winston was nervous before a speech, but he was not shy. L.G. said he 

himself was both nervous and shy. Winston would go up to his Creator and 

say that he would very much like to meet His Son, about Whom he had heard 

a great deal and, if possible, would like to call on the Holy Ghost. 

Winston loved meeting people. 

A. J. Sylvester Diary 2 Jan. 1937, in Life with Lloyd George (1975) p. 166 

He [Ramsay MacDonald] had sufficient conscience to bother him, but not 

sufficient to keep him straight. 

In A. J. Sylvester Life with Lloyd George (1975) p. 216 

A fully-equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts; and 

dukes are just as great a terror and they last longer. 

Speech at Newcastle, 9 Oct. 1909, in The Times 11 Oct. 1909 

The great peaks of honour we had forgotten--Duty, Patriotism, and--clad in 

glittering white--the great pinnacle of Sacrifice, pointing like a rugged 

finger to Heaven. 

Speech at Queen's Hall, London, 19 Sept. 1914, in The Times 20 Sept. 1914

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. 

Speech at Wolverhampton, 23 Nov. 1918, in The Times 25 Nov. 1918 

M. Clemenceau...is one of the greatest living orators, but he knows that 

the finest eloquence is that which gets things done and the worst is that 

which delays them. 

Speech at Paris Peace Conference, 18 Jan. 1919, in The Times 20 Jan. 1919 

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. 


What were politicians? A politician was a person with whose politics you 

did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman. 

Speech at Central Hall, Westminster, 2 July 1935, in The Times 3 July 1935 

12.72 David Lodge 

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1935- 

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. 

Life is the other way round. 

The British Museum is Falling Down (1965) ch. 4 

12.73 Frank Loesser 

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1910-1969 

See what the boys in the back room will have 

And tell them I'm having the same. 

Boys in the Back Room (1939 song; music by Frederick Hollander) 

I'd love to get you 

On a slow boat to China, 

All to myself, alone. 

Slow Boat to China (1948 song) 

Spring will be a little late this year. 


12.74 Jack London (John Griffith London) 

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1876-1916 

The call of the wild. 


12.75 Alice Roosevelt Longworth 

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1884-1980 

[Warren] Harding was not a bad man. He was just a slob. 

Crowded Hours (1933) ch. 20 

If you haven't got anything good to say about anyone come and sit by me. 

Maxim embroidered on a cushion, in Michael Teague Mrs L: Conversations 

with Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1981) p. xi

12.76 Frederick Lonsdale 

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1881-1954 

"Don't keep finishing your sentences," he said to me once when I was 

telling him something; "I'm not a bloody fool." 

Frances Donaldson Child of the Twenties (1959) p. 11 

12.77 Anita Loos 

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1893-1981 

So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something with them 

besides think. 

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) ch. 1 

Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes. 


She said she always believed in the old addage, "Leave them while you're 

looking good." 


So I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because 

kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and 

safire bracelet lasts forever. 


You have got to be a Queen to get away with a hat like that. 


Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time. 


So then Dr Froyd said that all I needed was to cultivate a few inhibitions 

and get some sleep. 


So then he said that he used to be a member of the choir himself, so who 

was he to cast the first rock at a girl like I. 


12.78 Frederico Garc¡a Lorca 

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1899-1936 

A las cinco de la tarde. 

Eran las cinco en punto de la tarde. 

Un ni¤o trajo la blanca s bana 

a las cinco de la tarde. 

At five in the afternoon. 

It was exactly five in the afternoon. 

A boy brought the white sheet 

at five in the afternoon. 

Llanto por Ignacio S nchez Mej¡as(Lament for Ignacio S nchez Mej¡as,

1935) "La Cogida y la muerte" 

Verde que te quiero verde. 

Verde viento. 

Verde ramas. 

El barco sobre la mar 

y el caballo en la monta¤a. 

Green how I love you green. 

Green wind. 

Green boughs. 

The ship on the sea 

and the horse on the mountain. 

Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Romances, 1924-1927) "Romance Son mbulo" 

12.79 Konrad Lorenz 

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1903-1989 

šberhaupt ist es fr den Forscher ein guter Morgensport, t„glich vor dem 

Frhstck eine Lieblingshypothese einzustampfen--das erh„lt jung. 

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet 

hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. 

Das sogennante B”se(The So-Called Evil, 1963; translated 1966 by Marjorie 

Latzke as On Aggression) ch. 2 

12.80 Joe Louis 

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1914-1981 

He [Billy Conn] can run, but he can't hide. 

In New York Herald Tribune 9 June 1946 

12.81 Terry Lovelock 

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Heineken refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach. 

Slogan for Heineken lager, 1975 onwards, in Nigel Rees Slogans (1982) p. 

16 

12.82 Robert Loveman 

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1864-1923 

It isn't raining rain to me, 

It's raining violets. 

Gates of Silence (1903) "Song" (words adapted by Buddy De Sylva in 1921 

song April Showers ; music by Louis Silver) 

12.83 David Low 

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1891-1963 

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini

were, according to themselves. 

New York Times Magazine 10 Feb. 1946 

12.84 Amy Lowell 

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1874-1925 

And the softness of my body will be guarded by embrace 

By each button, hook, and lace. 

For the man who should loose me is dead, 

Fighting with the Duke in Flanders, 

In a pattern called a war. 

Christ! What are patterns for? 

Men, Women and Ghosts (1916) "Patterns" 

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment 

with him tonight in Samarra. 

Sheppy (1933) act 3 

All books are either dreams or swords, 

You can cut, or you can drug, with words. 

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914) title poem 

12.85 Robert Lowell 

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1917-1977 

We feel the machine slipping from our hands 

As if someone else were steering; 

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, 

It's the light of the oncoming train. 

Day by Day (1977) "Since 1939." Cf. Paul Dickson 

My eyes have seen what my hand did. 

The Dolphin (1973) "Dolphin" 

The aquarium is gone. 

Everywhere, 

giant finned cars nose forward like fish; 

a savage servility 

slides by on grease. 

For the Union Dead (1964) title poem 

These are the tranquillized Fifties, 

and I am forty. Ought I to regret my seed-time? 

I was a fire-breathing Catholic C.O., 

and made my manic statement, 

telling off the state and president, and then 

sat waiting sentence in the bull pen 

beside a Negro boy with curlicues 

of marijuana in his hair. 

Life Studies (1956) "Memories of West Street and Lepke" 

I saw the spiders marching through the air, 

Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day 

In latter August when the hay 

Came creaking to the barn. 

Poems 1938-1949 (1950) "Mr Edwards and the Spider"

This is death. 

To die and know it. This is the Black Widow, death. 

Poems 1938-1949 (1950) "Mr Edwards and the Spider" 

The Lord survives the rainbow of His will. 

Poems 1938-1949 (1950) "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" 

12.86 L. S. Lowry 

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1887-1976 

I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials. 

In Mervyn Levy Paintings of L. S. Lowry (1975) p. 11 

12.87 Malcolm Lowry 

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1909-1957 

How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying. 

Under the Volcano (1947) ch. 12 

12.88 E. V. Lucas 

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1868-1938 

Poor G.K.C., his day is past-- 

Now God will know the truth at last. 

Mock epitaph for G. K. Chesterton, in Dudley Barker G. K. Chesterton 

(1973) ch. 16 

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. 

Reading, Writing and Remembering (1932) ch. 8 

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than 

the people who have to wait for them. 

365 Days and One More (1926) p. 277 

12.89 George Lucas 

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1944- 

The Empire strikes back. 


Then man your ships, and may the force be with you. 

Star Wars: from the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (1976) ch. 11 

12.90 Clare Booth Luce 

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1903- 

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us 

a brain? 

Life 16 Oct. 1970

12.91 Joanna Lumley 

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To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled 

at picking shrapnel out of your head. 

In Observer 17 Nov. 1985 (comment on the Booker Prize) 

12.92 Sir Edwin Lutyens 

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1869-1944 

I had proposed that we should lunch together at the Garrick Club, because 

I had obviously to ask father if he had any serious objection to the 

writing or the writer of this essay. But, when I broached the matter, he 

merely mumbled in obvious embarrassment: "Oh, my!"--just as his father 

was used to do. Then, as the fish was served, he looked at me seriously 

over the rims of his two pairs of spectacles and remarked: "The piece of 

cod passeth all understanding"! 

Robert Lutyens Sir Edwin Lutyens (1942) p. 74 

12.93 Rosa Luxemburg 

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1871-1919 

Freiheit ist immer nur Freiheit des anders Denkenden. 

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks 

differently. 

Die Russische Revolution (The Russian Revolution, 1918) sec. 4 

12.94 Lady Lytton (Pamela Frances Audrey, Countess of Lytton) 

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1874-1971 

The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the 

rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues. 

Letter to Sir Edward Marsh, Dec. 1905, in Edward Marsh A Number of People 

(1939) ch. 8 

13.0 M 

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13.1 Alexander McArthur and H. Kingsley Long 

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Battles and sex are the only free diversions in slum life. Couple them 

with drink, which costs money, and you have the three principal outlets 

for that escape complex which is for ever working in the tenement 

dweller's subconscious mind. 

No Mean City (1935) ch. 4 

13.2 Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht

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Charles MacArthur 1895-1956 

Ben Hecht 1894-1964 

The son of a bitch stole my watch! 

Front Page (1928) last line 

13.3 General Douglas MacArthur 

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1880-1964 

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory. 

Congressional Record 19 Apr. 1951, vol. 97, pt. 3, p. 4125 

The President of the United States ordered me to break through the 

Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, 

as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan. A 

primary purpose of this is relief of the Philippines. I came through and I 

shall return. 

Statement in Adelaide, 20 Mar. 1942, in New York Times 21 Mar. 1942, p. 1 

13.4 Dame Rose Macaulay 

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1881-1958 

"Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this 

animal on her return from High Mass. 

Towers of Trebizond (1956) p. 9 

13.5 General Anthony McAuliffe 

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1898-1975 

Nuts! 

Response to German demand to surrender at Bastogne, Belgium, 22 Dec. 

1944, in New York Times 28 Dec. 1944, p. 4, and 30 Dec. 1944, p. 1 

13.6 Sir Desmond MacCarthy 

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1877-1952 

A biographer is an artist who is on oath, and anyone who knows anything 

about artists, knows that that is almost a contradiction in terms. 

Memories (1953) "Lytton Strachey and the Art of Biography" 

The whole of art is an appeal to a reality which is not without us but in 

our minds. 

Theatre (1954) "Diction and Realism" 

13.7 Joe McCarthy 

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You made me love you,

I didn't want to do it. 

You Made Me Love You (1913 song; music by James V. Monaco) 

13.8 Joseph McCarthy 

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1908-1957 

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. 

Speech in Wisconsin, 1952, in Richard Rovere Senator Joe McCarthy (1973) 

p. 8 

13.9 Mary McCarthy 

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1912-1989 

I once said in an interview that every word she [Lillian Hellman] writes 

is a lie, including "and" and "the." 

New York Times 16 Feb. 1980, p. 12 

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the 

Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been 

Europeans. 

On the Contrary (1961) "America the Beautiful" 

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe 

is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. 

On the Contrary (1961) "America the Beautiful" 

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by 

those who have perceived them without noticing. A truth is something that 

everyone can be shown to know and to have known, as people say, all along. 

On the Contrary (1961) "Vita Activa" 

In violence, we forget who we are. 

On the Contrary (1961) "Characters in Fiction " 

If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you 

immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. 

On the Contrary (1961) "American Realist Playwrights" 

13.10 Paul McCartney 

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1942- 

He [John Lennon] could be a manoeuvring swine, which no one ever realized. 

In Hunter Davies The Beatles (1985) p. 469 

See also John Lennon (12.38) 

13.11 David McCord 

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1897- 

By and by 

God caught his eye. 

Bay Window Ballads (1935) "Remainders" (epitaph for a waiter)

13.12 Horace McCoy 

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1897-1955 

They shoot horses don't they. 


13.13 John McCrae 

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1872-1918 

In Flanders fields the poppies blow 

Between the crosses, row on row, 

That mark our place; and in the sky 

The larks, still bravely singing, fly 

Scarce heard amid the guns below. 

Punch 8 Dec. 1915 "In Flanders Fields" 

To you from failing hands we throw 

The torch; be yours to hold it high. 

If ye break faith with us who die 

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow. 

Punch 8 Dec. 1915, "In Flanders Fields" 

13.14 Carson McCullers 

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1917-1967 

The heart is a lonely hunter. 

Title of novel (1940; taken from The Lonely Hunter (1896), a poem by 

"Fiona Macleod" (William Sharp): "My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts 

on a lonely hill") 

13.15 Derek McCulloch 

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1897-1967 

Goodnight, children...everywhere. 

Children's Hour (BBC Radio programme; closing words normally spoken by 

"Uncle Mac" in the 1930s and 1940s) 

13.16 Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) 

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1892-1978 

I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur 

Extremes meet--it's the only way I ken 

To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richt 

That damns the vast majority o' men. 

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926) p. 6 

He's no a man ava', 

And lacks a proper pride, 

Gin less than a' the world

Can ser' him for a bride! 

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926) p. 36 

13.17 Ramsay MacDonald 

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1866-1937 

Yes, tomorrow every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss me! 

Comment after forming the National Government, 25 Aug. 1931, in Philip 

Viscount Snowden Autobiography (1934) vol. 2, p. 957 

If God were to come to me and say "Ramsay, would you rather be a country 

gentleman than a prime minister?," I should reply, "Please God, a country 

gentleman." 

In Harold Nicolson Diary 5 Oct. 1930, in Diaries and Letters (1966) p. 57 

We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide. 


13.18 A. G. Macdonell 

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1889- 

England, their England. 


13.19 John McEnroe 

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1959- 

You cannot be serious! 

Said to tennis umpire at Wimbledon, early 1980 s 

This must be the pits. 

Comment after disagreement with Wimbledon umpire, in Sun 23 June 1981 

13.20 Arthur McEwen 

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d. 1907 

"What we're after," said Arthur McEwen, "is the 'gee-whiz' emotion." 

Pressed for further explanation, he said: "We run our paper so that when 

the reader opens it he says: 'Gee-whiz!' An issue is a failure which 

doesn't make him say that." 

Colliers 18 Feb. 1911 

13.21 Roger McGough 

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1937- 

Let me die a youngman's death 

Not a clean & in-between- 

The-sheets, holy-water death, 

Not a famous-last-words 

Peaceful out-of-breath death.

"Let Me Die a Youngman's Death" in Edward Lucie Smith (ed.) The Liverpool 

Scene (1967) p. 47 

Girls are simply the prettiest things 

My cat and i believe 

And we're always saddened 

When it's time for them to leave 

We watch them titivating 

(that often takes a while) 

and though they keep us waiting 

My cat and i just smile 

We like to see them to the door 

Say how sad it couldn't last 

Then my cat and i go back inside 

And talk about the past. 

Watchwords (1969) "My Cat and i" 

13.22 Sir Ian MacGregor 

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1912- 

People are now discovering the price of insubordination and insurrection. 

And boy, are we going to make it stick! 

Comment during the coal-miners' strike, in Sunday Telegraph 10 Mar. 1985 

13.23 Jimmy McGregor 

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Oh, he's football crazy, he's football mad 

And the football it has robbed him o' the wee bit sense he had. 

And it would take a dozen skivvies, his clothes to wash and scrub, 

Since our Jock became a member of that terrible football club. 

Football Crazy (1960 song) 

13.24 Dennis McHarrie 

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"He died who loved to live," they'll say, 

"Unselfishly so we might have today!" 

Like hell! He fought because he had to fight; 

He died that's all. It was his unlucky night. 

In V. Selwyn et al Return to Oasis (1980) pt. 3, p. 172 "Luck" 

13.25 Colin MacInnes 

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1914-1976 

And I thought, "My lord, one thing is certain, and that's that they'll 

make musicals one day about the glamour-studded 1950s." And I thought, my 

heaven, one thing is certain too, I'm miserable. 

Absolute Beginners (1959) p. 81 

13.26 Claude McKay 

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1890-1948 

If we must die, let it not be like hogs 

Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, 

While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, 

Making their mock at our accursed lot. 

If we must die, O let us nobly die, 

So that our precious blood may not be shed 

In vain; then even the monsters we defy 

Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! 

O, kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! 

Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, 

And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! 

What though before us lies the open grave? 

Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, 

Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! 

Selected Poems (1953) "If We Must Die" 

13.27 Sir Compton Mackenzie 

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1883-1972 

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often 

find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. 

Literature in My Time (1933) ch. 22 

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp 

handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one. 

Vestal Fire (1927) bk. 1, ch. 3 

13.28 Joyce McKinney 

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1950- 

I loved Kirk so much, I would have skied down Mount Everest in the nude 

with a carnation up my nose. 

Evidence given at Epsom Magistrates' Court, 6 Dec. 1977, in The Times 7 

Dec. 1977 

13.29 Alexander Maclaren 

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1826-1910 

"The Church is an anvil which has worn out many hammers," and the story of 

the first collision is, in essentials, the story of all. 

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Acts of the Apostles (1907) ch. 4 

13.30 Alistair Maclean 

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1923-1987 

Where eagles dare. 


13.31 Archibald MacLeish

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1892-1982 

A Poem should be palpable and mute 

As a globed fruit 

Dumb 

As old medallions to the thumb 

Silent as the sleeve-worn stone 

Of casement ledges where the moss has grown-- 

A poem should be wordless 

As the flight of birds 

Streets in the Moon (1926) "Ars Poetica" 

A poem should not mean 

But be. 

Streets in the Moon (1926) "Ars Poetica" 

13.32 Irene Rutherford McLeod 

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1891-1964 

I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone; 

I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own; 

I'm a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep; 

I love to sit and bay at the moon, to keep fat souls from sleep. 

Songs to Save a Soul (1915) "Lone Dog" 

13.33 Marshall McLuhan 

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1911-1980 

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a 

global village. 

Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) p. 31 

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy 

consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour. 

Mechanical Bride (1951) "The Ballet Luce" 

The medium is the message. 

Understanding Media (1964) title of ch. 1 

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. 

Understanding Media (1964) p. 32 

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, 

unclad and incomplete in the urban compound. 


The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of 

urban and suburban man. 


13.34 Ed McMahon

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1923- 

And now...heeeeere's Johnny! 

Introduction to Johnny Carson on NBC-TV's Tonight show (from 1961; also 

used by Jack Nicholson in the 1980 film The Shining) 

13.35 Harold Macmillan (Lord Stockton) 

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1894-1986 

He [Aneurin Bevan] enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist 

system and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except 

that of mute. 

In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1962) pt. 1, ch. 5 

After a long experience of politics I have never found that there is any 

inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism. 


I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the 

action of two tarts. 

Comment on the Profumo affair, July 1963, in Anthony Sampson Macmillan 

(1967) p. 243 

There ain't gonna be no war. 

Said at London press conference, 24 July 1955, after Geneva summit, in 

News Chronicle 25 July 1955 

He [a Foreign Secretary] is forever poised between a clich‚ and an 

indiscretion. 

In Newsweek 30 Apr. 1956 

Even before Mr Heath's troubles of 1972 and 1974, Mr Harold Macmillan was 

fond of remarking that there were three bodies no sensible man directly 

challenged: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the 

National Union of Mineworkers. 

Alan Watkins in Observer 22 Feb. 1981 

The most striking of all the impressions I have formed since I left London 

a month ago is of the strength of this African national consciousness. In 

different places it takes different forms, but it is happening everywhere. 

The wind of change is blowing through this continent, and, whether we like 

it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We 

must all accept it as a fact, and our national policies must take account 

of it. 

Speech at Cape Town, 3 Feb. 1960, Pointing the Way (1972) p. 475 

Indeed, let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so 

good. Go around the country, go to the industrial towns, go to the farms, 

and you will see a state of prosperity such as we have never had in my 

lifetime--nor indeed ever in the history of this country. What is 

beginning to worry some of us is, Is it too good to be true?--or perhaps I 

should say, Is it too good to last? 

Speech at Bedford, 20 July 1957, in The Times 22 July 1957 

I thought the best thing to do was to settle up these little local 

difficulties, and then turn to the wider vision of the Commonwealth.

Statement at London airport on leaving for Commonwealth tour, 7 Jan. 

1958, following the resignation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and 

others, in The Times 8 Jan. 1958 

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. 

Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original 

ideas is sound. 

Speech to London Conservatives, 7 Mar. 1961, in The Times 8 Mar. 1961 

First of all the Georgian silver goes, and then all that nice furniture 

that used to be in the saloon. Then the Canalettos go. 

Speech on privatization to the Tory Reform Group, 8 Nov. 1985, in The 

Times 9 Nov. 1985 

13.36 Louis MacNeice 

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1907-1963 

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god. 

Autumn Journal (1939) p. 49 

The sunlight on the garden 

Hardens and grows cold, 

We cannot cage the minute 

Within its net of gold, 

When all is told 

We cannot beg for pardon. 

Earth Compels (1938) "Sunlight on the Garden" 

Our freedom as free lances 

Advances towards its end; 

The earth compels, upon it 

Sonnets and birds descend; 

And soon, my friend, 

We shall have no time for dances. 

Earth Compels (1938) "Sunlight on the Garden" 

It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw, 

All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow. 

Earth Compels (1938) "Bagpipe Music" 

It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium, 

It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums, 

It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, 

Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension. 


It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; 

Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. 

The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, 

But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather. 


I take a rather common-sense view of poetry. I think that the poet is a 

sensitive instrument designed to record anything which interests his mind 

or affects his emotions. 

Listener 27 July 1939 

By a high star our course is set,

Our end is Life. Put out to sea. 

London Magazine Feb. 1964 "Thalassa" (poem published posthumously) 

And under the totem poles--the ancient terror-- 

Between the enormous fluted Ionic columns 

There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces 

The guttural sorrow of the refugees. 

Plant and Phantom (1941) "The British Museum Reading Room" 

Time was away and somewhere else, 

There were two glasses and two chairs 

And two people with the one pulse 

(Somebody stopped the moving stairs): 

Time was away and somewhere else. 

Plant and Phantom (1941) "Meeting Point" 

So they were married--to be the more together-- 

And found they were never again so much together, 

Divided by the morning tea, 

By the evening paper, 

By children and tradesmen's bills. 

Plant and Phantom (1941) "Les Sylphides" 

Crumbling between the fingers, under the feet, 

Crumbling behind the eyes, 

Their world gives way and dies 

And something twangs and breaks at the end of the street. 

Plant and Phantom (1941) "D‚bƒcle" 

Down the road someone is practising scales, 

The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails, 

Man's heart expands to tinker with his car 

For this is Sunday morning, Fate's great bazaar. 

Poems (1935) "Sunday Morning" 

World is crazier and more of it than we think, 

Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion 

A tangerine and spit the pips and feel 

The drunkenness of things being various. 

Poems (1935) "Snow" 

I am not yet born; O fill me 

With strength against those who would freeze my 

humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton, 

would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with 

one face, a thing, and against all those 

who would dissipate my entirety, would 

blow me like thistledown hither and 

thither or hither and thither 

like water held in the 

hands would spill me. 

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, 

Otherwise kill me. 

Springboard (1944) "Prayer Before Birth" 

13.37 Salvador de Madariaga 

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1886-1978

Since, in the main, it is not armaments that cause wars but wars (or the 

fears thereof) that cause armaments, it follows that every nation will at 

every moment strive to keep its armament in an efficient state as required 

by its fear, otherwise styled security. 

Morning Without Noon (1974) pt. 1, ch. 9 

13.38 Maurice Maeterlinck 

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1862-1949 

Il n'y a pas de morts. 

There are no dead. 

L'Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird, 1909) act 4 

13.39 John Gillespie Magee 

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1922-1941 

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth 

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; 

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth 

Of sun-split clouds--and done a hundred things 

You have not dreamed of--wheeled and soared and swung 

High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there 

I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung 

My eager craft through footless halls of air. 

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue 

I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, 

Where never lark, nor even eagle flew-- 

And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod 

The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, 

Put out my hand and touched the face of God. 

In K. Rhys More Poems from the Forces (1943) "High Flight" 

13.40 Magnus Magnusson 

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1929- 

I've started so I'll finish. 

Said when a contestant's time runs out while a question is being put in 

Mastermind, BBC television (1972 onwards) 

13.41 Sir John Pentland Mahaffy 

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1839-1919 

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly 

occurs. 

In W. B. Stanford and R. B. McDowell Mahaffy (1971) ch. 4 

13.42 Gustav Mahler 

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1860-1911

On seeing Niagara Falls, Mahler exclaimed: "Fortissimo at last!" 

K. Blaukopf Gustav Mahler (1973) ch. 8 

13.43 Derek Mahon 

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1941- 

"I am just going outside and may be some time." 

The others nod, pretending not to know. 

At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime. 

Antarctica (1985) title poem (for the first line, cf. Captain Lawrence 

Oates) 

13.44 Norman Mailer 

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1923- 

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no 

sentiment. 

Cannibals and Christians (1966) p. 51 

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. 

Dissent Summer 1957, p. 281 

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the 

protagonists. 

Esquire June 1960 

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each event, and the 

paucity of its reverberation. 

A Fire on the Moon (1970) pt. 1, ch. 2 

So we think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America, 

Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little 

rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American 

backyards. 

Marilyn (1973) p. 15 

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the Gods, and so awakens 

devils to contest his vision. 

The Presidential Papers (1976) Special Preface to the 1st Berkeley 

Edition 

13.45 Bernard Malamud 

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1914-1986 

I think I said "All men are Jews except they don't know it." I doubt I 

expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an 

understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, 

sooner or later, treats all men. 

Leslie and Joyce Field (ed.) Bernard Malamud (1975) "An interview with 

Bernard Malamud" p. 11 

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is 

no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all

iography is ultimately fiction. 

Dubin's Lives (1979) p. 20 

13.46 George Leigh Mallory 

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1886-1924 

Because it's there. 

Response to question "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?," in New 

York Times 18 Mar. 1923 

13.47 Andr‚ Malraux 

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1901-1976 

L'art est un anti-destin. 

Art is a revolt against fate. 

Les Voix du silence (Voices of Silence, 1951) pt. 4, ch. 7 

13.48 Lord Mancroft (Baron Mancroft) 

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1914- 

Our soft grass and mild climate has enabled us to foster new sports. 

Racing, golf, football and particularly cricket--a game which the English, 

not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves 

some conception of eternity--all owe their development to our climate. 

Bees in Some Bonnets (1979) p. 185 

13.49 Winnie Mandela 

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1936- 

We are going to dismantle apartheid ourselves. That programme will be 

brought to you by the ANC. Together, hand in hand, with that stick of 

matches, with our necklace, we shall liberate this country. 

Speech in black townships, 14 Apr. 1986, in Guardian 15 Apr. 1986 

13.50 Osip Mandelstam 

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1891-1938 

Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips. 

Selected Poems (1973), trans. by D. McDuff p. 129 

13.51 Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles 

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Herman J. Mankiewicz 1897-1953 

Orson Welles 1915-1985 

Katherine: What's Rosebud? 

Raymond: That's what he said when he died....

Louise: If you could have found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that 

would've explained everything. 

Thompson: No, I don't think so. No, Mr Kane was a man who got everything 

he wanted, and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get 

or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything. I 

don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just 

a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, a missing piece. 

Citizen Kane (1941 film) 

13.52 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 

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1909- 

Fasten your seat-belts, it's going to be a bumpy night. 

All About Eve (1950 film; words spoken by Bette Davis) 

13.53 Thomas Mann 

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1875-1955 

Der Tod in Venedig. 

Death in Venice. 

Title of novella (1912) 

Tats„chlich ist unser Sterben mehr eine Angelegenheit der Weiterlebenden 

als unserer selbst. 

It is a fact that a man's dying is more the survivor's affair than his 

own. 

Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain, 1924) ch. 6, pt. 8 

13.54 Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp) 

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1888-1923 

E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare 

fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but 

there ain't going to be no tea. 

Journal May 1917 (1927) p. 69 

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should 

I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me. 

Journal 29 Jan. 1922 (1927) p. 224 

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But 

better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. 

Journal 1922 (1927) p. 243 

13.55 Mao Tse-Tung 

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1893-1976 

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend 

is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and 

a flourishing socialist culture in our land.

Speech at Peking, 27 Feb. 1957, in Quotations of Chairman Mao (1966) 

p. 302 

A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an 

essay, or painting a picture....A revolution is an insurrection, an act of 

violence by which one class overthrows another. 

Report, Mar. 1927, in Selected Works (1954) vol. 1, p. 27 

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use 

to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. Of course, the 

atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a war is 

decided by the people, not by one or two new types of weapon. 

Interview with Anne Louise Strong, Aug. 1946, in Selected Works (1961) 

vol. 4, p. 100 

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are 

terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term 

point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really 

powerful. 

Interview with Anne Louise Strong, Aug. 1946, in Selected Works (1961) 

vol. 4, p. 100 

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. 

Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153 

Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the 

barrel of a gun." 

Speech at 6th Plenary Session of 6th Central Committee, 6 Nov. 1938, in 

Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 224 

13.56 Edwin Markham 

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1852-1940 

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans 

Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, 

The emptiness of ages in his face, 

And on his back the burden of the world. 

Who made him dead to rapture and despair, 

A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, 

Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? 

Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899) "Man with the Hoe" 

He drew a circle that shut me out-- 

Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. 

But Love and I had the wit to win: 

We drew a circle that took him in! 

Shoes of Happiness (1915) "Outwitted" 

13.57 Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham 

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1906-1981 

Here comes the judge. 

Title of song (1968; written with Dick Alen, Bob Astor, and Sarah Harvey; 

subsequently a catch-phrase, often in the form "Here come de judge") 

13.58 Johnny Marks

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1909-1985 

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer 

Had a very shiny nose, 

And if you ever saw it, 

You would even say it glows. 

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1949 song), based on a Robert L. May 

story (1939) 

13.59 Don Marquis 

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1878-1937 

but wotthehell wotthehell 

oh i should worry and fret 

death and I will coquette 

there s a dance in the old dame yet 

toujours gai toujours gai. 

archy and mehitabel (1927) "the song of mehitabel" 

procrastination is the 

art of keeping 

up with yesterday. 

archy and mehitabel (1927) "certain maxims of archy" 

an optimist is a guy 

that has never had 

much experience. 

archy and mehitabel (1927) "certain maxims of archy" 

I have got you out here 

in the great open spaces 

where cats are cats. 

archy and mehitabel (1927) "mehitabel has an adventure" 

but wotthehell 

archy wotthehell 

it s cheerio 

my deario that 

pulls a lady through. 

archy and mehitabel (1927) "cheerio, my deario" 

but wotthehell archy wotthehell 

jamais triste archy jamais triste 

that is my motto. 

archy and mehitabel (1927) "mehitabel sees paris" 

boss there is always 

a comforting thought 

in time of trouble when 

it is not our trouble 

archy does his part (1935) "comforting thoughts" 

honesty is a good 

thing but 

it is not profitable to 

its possessor

unless it is 

kept under control. 

archys life of mehitabel (1933) "archygrams" 

did you ever 

notice that when 

a politician 

does get an idea 

he usually 

gets it all wrong. 

archys life of mehitabel (1933) no. 40 "archygrams" 

now and then 

there is a person born 

who is so unlucky 

that he runs into accidents 

which started to happen 

to somebody else. 

archys life of mehitabel (1933) "archy says" 

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand 

Canyon and waiting for the echo. 

In E. Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962) p. 146 

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs 

like an epigram. 

In E. Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962) p. 354 

13.60 Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot 

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Anthony Marriott 1931- 

Alistair Foot 

No sex please--we're British. 


13.61 Arthur Marshall 

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1910-1989 

Oh My! Bertha's got a bang on the boko. Keep a stiff upper lip, Bertha 

dear. What, knocked a tooth out? Never mind, dear, laugh it off, laugh it 

off; it's all part of life's rich pageant. 

The Games Mistress (recorded monologue, 1937) 

13.62 Thomas R. Marshall 

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1854-1925 

What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar. 

In New York Tribune 4 Jan. 1920, pt. 7, p. 1 

13.63 Dean Martin 

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1917-

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. 

In Paul Dickson Official Rules (1978) p. 112 

13.64 Holt Marvell 

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A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces, 

An airline ticket to romantic places; 

And still my heart has wings 

These foolish things 

Remind me of you. 

These Foolish Things Remind Me of You (1935 song; music by Jack Strachey 

and Harry Link) 

13.65 Chico Marx 

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1891-1961 

I wasn't kissing her, I was just whispering in her mouth. 

In Groucho Marx and Richard J. Anobile Marx Brothers Scrapbook (1973) 

ch. 24 

13.66 Groucho Marx 

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1895-1977 

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was 

convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. 

In Hector Arce Groucho (1979) p. 188 (a blurb written for S. J. Perelman's 

1928 book Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge) 

I sent the club a wire stating, Please accept my resignation. I don't want 

to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. 

Groucho and Me (1959) ch. 26 

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. 

In Leo Rosten People I have Loved, Known or Admired (1970) "Groucho" 

13.67 Queen Mary 

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1867-1953 

"Well, Mr Baldwin!" Queen Mary exclaimed, stepping briskly into the room, 

her hands held out before her in a gesture of despair, "this is a pretty 

kettle of fish!" 

James Pope-Hennessy Life of Queen Mary (1959) pt. 4, ch. 7 (said on 

17 Nov. 1936, after Edward VIII had told her he was prepared to give up 

the throne to marry Mrs Simpson) 

So that's what hay looks like. 

James Pope-Hennessy Life of Queen Mary (1959) pt. 4, ch. 8 (said at 

Badminton House, where she was evacuated during the Second World War) 

13.68 Eric Maschwitz 

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1901-1969 

A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square. 

Title of song (1940; music by Manning Sherwin) 

13.69 John Masefield 

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1878-1967 

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir 

Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, 

With a cargo of ivory, 

And apes and peacocks, 

Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. 

Ballads (1903) "Cargoes" 

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, 

Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, 

With a cargo of Tyne coal, 

Road-rails, pig lead, 

Firewood, ironware, and cheap tin trays. 

Ballads (1903) "Cargoes" 

Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French, 

And some'll swallow tay and stuff fit only for a wench. 

Ballads (1903) "Captain Stratton's Fancy" 

Oh some are fond of fiddles, and a song well sung, 

And some are all for music for a lilt upon the tongue; 

But mouths were made for tankards, and for sucking at the bung, 

Says the old bold mate of Henry Morgan. 

Ballads (1903) "Captain Stratton's Fancy" 

I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills, 

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. 

Ballads (1903) "Beauty" 

But the loveliest things of beauty God ever has showed to me, 

Are her voice, and her hair, and eyes, and the dear red curve of her 

lips. 

Ballads (1903) "Beauty" 

One road leads to London, 

One road runs to Wales, 

My road leads me seawards 

To the white dipping sails. 

Ballads (1903) "Roadways" 

In the dark womb where I began 

My mother's life made me a man. 

Through all the months of human birth 

Her beauty fed my common earth. 

I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, 

But through the death of some of her. 

Ballads and Poems (1910) "C.L.M." 

Jane brought the bowl of stewing gin 

And poured the egg and lemon in,

And whisked it up and served it out 

While bawdy questions went about. 

Jack chucked her chin, and Jim accost her 

With bits out of the "Maid of Gloster." 

And fifteen arms went round her waist. 

(And then men ask, Are Barmaids Chaste?) 

The Everlasting Mercy (1911) st. 26 

And he who gives a child a treat 

Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street. 

And he who gives a child a home 

Builds palaces in Kingdom come, 

And she who gives a baby birth 

Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth, 

For life is joy, and mind is fruit, 

And body's precious earth and root. 


The corn that makes the holy bread 

By which the soul of man is fed, 

The holy bread, the food unpriced, 

Thy everlasting mercy, Christ. 


Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die. 

Pompey The Great (1910) act 2 

And all the way, that wild high crying, 

To cold his blood with the thought of dying. 

Reynard the Fox (1919) pt. 2, st. 49 

The stars grew bright in the winter sky, 

The wind came keen with a tang of frost, 

The brook was troubled for new things lost, 

The copse was happy for old things found, 

The fox came home and he went to ground. 

Reynard the Fox (1919) pt. 2, st. 137 

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, 

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, 

And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, 

And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking. 

Salt-Water Ballads (1902) "Sea Fever" 

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide 

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied. 


I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, 

To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted 

knife; 

And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, 

And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over. 


It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; 

I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. 

For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, 

And April's in the west wind, and daffodils. 

Salt-Water Ballads (1902) "West Wind"

It is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where, 

Going through meadow and village, one knows not whither nor why. 

Salt-Water Ballads (1902) "Tewkesbury Road" 

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last. 

Widow in Bye Street (1912) ch. 4, p. 66 

13.70 Donald Mason 

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1913- 

Sighted sub, sank same. 

Radio message, 28 Jan. 1942, in New York Times 27 Feb. 1942 (on sinking 

Japanese submarine in the Atlantic region, the first US naval success in 

the war) 

13.71 Sir James Mathew 

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1830-1908 

In England, justice is open to all--like the Ritz Hotel. 

In R. E. Megarry Miscellany-at-Law (1955) p. 254 

13.72 Melissa Mathison 

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1950- 

E.T. phone home. 

E.T. (1982 film; directed by Steven Spielberg) 

13.73 Henri Matisse 

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1869-1954 

Ce que je rˆve, c'est un art d'‚quilibre, de puret‚, de tranquillit‚, sans 

sujet inqui‚tant ou pr‚occupant, qui soit...un l‚nifiant, un calmant 

c‚r‚bral, quelque chose d'analogue … un bon fauteuil qui le d‚lasse de ses 

fatigues physiques. 

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of 

troubling or depressing subject matter...a soothing, calming influence on 

the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from 

physical fatigue. 

Notes d'un peintre (Notes of a Painter, 1908) in Dominique Fourcade 

crits et propos sur l'art (1972) p. 30 

13.74 Reginald Maudling 

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1917-1979 

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older 

man. 

Remark after he was dropped from the Shadow Cabinet and replaced by an 

older man, in Guardian 20 Nov. 1976

13.75 W. Somerset Maugham 

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1874-1965 

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can 

pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. 

It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is 

a whole-time job. 

Cakes and Ale (1930) ch. 1 

This is not so strange when you reflect that from the earliest times the 

old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and 

before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, 

and it profited them to carry on the imposture. 


Poor Henry [James], he's spending eternity wandering round and round a 

stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and 

they're having tea just too far away for him to hear what the countess is 

saying. 


You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is 

that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. 

Circle (1921) act 3 

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It 

is her favourite form of self-indulgence. 

Circle (1921) act 3 

"Dying" he [Maugham] said to me, "is a very dull, dreary affair." Suddenly 

he smiled. "And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with 

it," he added. 

Robin Maugham Escape from the Shadows (1972) pt. 5, p. 233 

There can be nothing so gratifying to an author as to arouse the respect 

and esteem of the reader. Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial 

fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured. 

Gentleman in the Parlour (1930) ch. 11 

God knows that I have never been that [anti-Semitic]; some of my best 

friends both in England and America are Jews. 

Letter, May 1946, in Ted Morgan Somerset Maugham (1980) ch. 6 

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each 

day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that 

I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone 

to bed. 

Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 2 

Impropriety is the soul of wit. 


She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of 

misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress. 


It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that

sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and 

vindictive. 


"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her," he said, "but she 

can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account." 


Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's 

mind. 

Of Human Bondage (1915) ch. 39 

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. 


Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use 

of the other five. 


It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. 

Our Betters (1923) act 3 

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at 

all....They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are 

written. 

Summing Up (1938) p. 92 

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic 

and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the 

most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and 

cruel. 

Summing Up (1938) p. 187 

Lucky Jim [by Kingsley Amis] is a remarkable novel. It has been greatly 

praised and widely read, but I have not noticed that any of the reviewers 

have remarked on its ominous significance. I am told that today rather 

more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on 

a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the 

scene....They are scum. 

Sunday Times 25 Dec. 1955 

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well 

but not too wisely. 

Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 17 (written in 1896) 

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to 

have a really affectionate mother. 

Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 27 (written in 1896) 

13.76 Bill Mauldin 

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1921- 

I feel like a fugitive from th' law of averages. 

Up Front (1945) cartoon caption 

13.77 James Maxton 

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1885-1946 

All I say is, if you cannot ride two horses you have no right in the 

circus. 

Said at Scottish Independent Labour Party Conference on being told that he 

could not be in two parties, in Daily Herald 12 Jan. 1931 

13.78 John May 

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You're never alone with a Strand. 

Slogan for Strand cigarettes, 1960, in Nigel Rees Slogans (1982) p. 108 

13.79 Percy Mayfield 

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1920-1984 

Hit the road, Jack. 


13.80 Charles H. Mayo 

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1865-1939 

The definition of a specialist as one who "knows more and more about less 

and less" is good and true. 

Modern Hospital Sept. 1938, p. 69 

13.81 Margaret Mead 

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1901-1978 

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as 

possible. 

In Quote Magazine 15 June 1958 

13.82 Shepherd Mead 

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1914- 

How to succeed in business without really trying. 


13.83 Hughes Mearns 

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1875-1965 

As I was walking up the stair 

I met a man who wasn't there. 

He wasn't there again today. 

I wish, I wish he'd stay away. 

The Psycho-ed (1910 play), in Newsweek 15 Jan. 1940 

13.84 Dame Nellie Melba (Helen Porter Mitchell)

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1861-1931 

So you're going to Australia! Well, I made twenty thousand pounds on my 

tour there, but of course that will never be done again. Still, it's 

a wonderful country, and you'll have a good time. What are you going to 

sing? All I can say is--sing 'em muck! It's all they can understand! 

Advice to Dame Clara Butt, in W. H. Ponder Clara Butt (1928) ch. 12 

13.85 H. L. Mencken 

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1880-1956 

Here, indeed, was his [Calvin Coolidge's] one peculiar Fach, his one 

really notable talent. He slept more than any other President, whether by 

day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored. 

American Mercury Apr. 1933 

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His 

failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. 

Baltimore Evening Sun 9 Dec. 1929 

No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records 

for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by 

underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. 

Chicago Tribune 19 Sept. 1926 

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands. 

Chrestomathy (1949) ch. 30 

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. 


Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry 

later. For another thing, they die earlier. 


Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. 


Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and 

deserve to get it good and hard. 

Little Book in C major (1916) p. 19 

Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. 

Little Book in C major (1916) p. 42 

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink 

after dark. 

New York Post 18 Sept. 1945 

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort 

to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and 

chemistry. 

Notebooks (1956) "Minority Report" 

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly 

greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed

inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party 

of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics. 

Notebooks (1956) "Minority Report" 

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They 

never defend any one or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced 

upon them, they tackle it by denouncing some one or something else. 

Prejudices (1919) 1st ser., ch. 13 

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious 

music. 

Prejudices (1922) 3rd ser., ch. 7 

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of 

the improbable. 

Prejudices (1922) 3rd ser., ch. 14 

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to 

please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely 

girl. 

Smart Set Dec. 1921 

13.86 David Mercer 

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1928-1980 

A suitable case for treatment. 

Title of play (1962) in Three TV Comedies (1966) 

13.87 Johnny Mercer 

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1909-1976 

You've got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive 

Elim-my-nate the negative 

Latch on to the affirmative 

Don't mess with Mister In-between. 

Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive (1944 song; music by Harold Arlen) 

We're drinking my friend, 

To the end of a brief episode, 

Make it one for my baby 

And one more for the road. 

One For My Baby (1943 song; music by Harold Arlen) 

That old black magic. 

Title of song (1942; music by Harold Arlen) 

13.88 Bob Merrill 

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How much is that doggie in the window? 


13.89 Dixon Lanier Merritt 

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1879-1972 

Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican! 

His beak holds more than his belican. 

He takes in his beak 

Food enough for a week. 

But I'll be darned if I know how the helican. 

Nashville Banner 22 Apr. 1913 

13.90 Viola Meynell 

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1886-1956 

The dust comes secretly day after day, 

Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. 

But O this dust that I shall drive away 

Is flowers and Kings, 

Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh. 

Verses (1919) "Dusting" 

13.91 Princess Michael of Kent 

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1945- 

I don't enjoy my public obligations. I was not made to cut ribbons and 

kiss babies. 

Life Nov. 1986 

13.92 George Mikes 

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1912- 

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table 

manners. 

How to be an Alien (1946) p. 10 

Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. 


An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. 


13.93 Edna St Vincent Millay 

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1892-1950 

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave 

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; 

Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. 

I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. 

Buck in the Snow (1928) "Dirge Without Music" 

My candle burns at both ends; 

It will not last the night; 

But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- 

It gives a lovely light.

A Few Figs From Thistles (1920) "First Fig" 

Safe upon solid rock the ugly houses stand: 

Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! 

A Few Figs From Thistles (1920) "Second Fig" 

I only know that summer sang in me 

A little while, that in me sings no more. 

Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) sonnet 19 

Euclid alone 

Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they 

Who, though once only and then but far away, 

Have heard her massive sandal set on stone. 

Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) sonnet 22 

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another--it's one damn 

thing over and over. 

Letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, 24 Oct. 1930, in A. R. Macdougal Letters 

of Edna St V. Millay (1952) p. 240 

Death devours all lovely things; 

Lesbia with her sparrow 

Shares the darkness--presently 

Every bed is narrow. 

Second April (1921) "Passer Mortuus Est" 

After all, my erstwhile dear, 

My no longer cherished, 

Need we say it was not love, 

Now that love is perished? 

Second April (1921) "Passer Mortuus Est" 

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age 

The child is grown, and puts away childish things. 

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. 

Nobody that matters, that is. 

Wine from these Grapes (1934) "Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody 

dies" 

13.94 Alice Duer Miller 

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1874-1942 

I am American bred, 

I have seen much to hate here--much to forgive, 

But in a world where England is finished and dead, 

I do not wish to live. 

White Cliffs (1940) p. 70 

13.95 Arthur Miller 

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1915- 

I don't say he's a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His 

name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever 

lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. 

So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave

like an old dog. Attention, attention must be finally paid to such 

a person. 

Death of a Salesman (1949) act 1 

Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the 

life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you 

medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and 

a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back--that's an earthquake. 

And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're 

finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It 

comes with the territory. 

Death of a Salesman (1949) "Requiem" 

I used...to keep a book in which I would talk to myself. One of the 

aphorisms I wrote was, "The structure of a play is always the story of how 

the birds came home to roost." 

Harper's Magazine Aug. 1958 

Roslyn: "How do you find your way back in the dark?" Gay nods, indicating 

the sky before them: "Just head for that big star straight on. The 

highway's under it; take us right home." 

The Misfits (1961) ch. 12 

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. 


13.96 Henry Miller 

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1891-1980 

Even before the music begins there is that bored look on people's faces. 

A polite form of self-imposed torture, the concert. 

Tropic of Cancer (1934) p. 84 

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. 

Tropic of Cancer (1934) p. 280 

13.97 Jonathan Miller 

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1934- 

In fact, I'm not really a Jew. Just Jew-ish. Not the whole hog, you know. 

Beyond the Fringe (1960) "Real Class," in Alan Bennett et al. Complete 

Beyond the Fringe (1987) p. 84 

13.98 Spike Milligan (Terence Alan Milligan) 

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1918- 

Grytpype-thynne: You silly twisted boy. 

Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler in The Goon Show (BBC radio series) 12 Oct. 

1954, in Goon Show Scripts (1972) p. 26 

Seagoon: Ying tong iddle I po. 

Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler in The Goon Show (BBC radio series) 12 Oct. 

1954, in Goon Show Scripts (1972) p. 27; catch-phrase also used in The 

Ying Tong Song (1956)

He's fallen in the water. 

Catch-phrase used by "Little Jim" (Spike Milligan) in The Goon Show (BBC 

radio series, used from 1956 onwards) 

Bluebottle: You rotten swines. I told you I'd be deaded. 

Hastings Flyer in The Goon Show (BBC radio series) 3 Jan. 1956, in Goon 

Show Scripts (1972) p. 170 

I'm walking backwards for Christmas 

Across the Irish Sea. 

I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas (1956 song) 

Moriarty: Sapristi Nuckoes--do you always drink ink? 

Seagoon: Only in the mating season. 

Moriarty: Shall we dance? 

Napoleon's Piano in The Goon Show (BBC radio series) 11 Oct. 1955, in 

Goon Show Scripts (1972) p. 100 

Bluebottle: I don't like this game, let's play another game--let's play 

doctor and nurses. 

The Phantom Head-Shaver in The Goon Show (BBC radio series) 15 Oct. 1954, 

in Goon Show Scripts (1972) p. 54 (the catch-phrase was often "I do not 

like this game") 

Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy. 

Puckoon (1963) ch. 6 

13.99 A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey, and Bennett Scott 

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Take me back to dear old Blighty, 

Put me on the train for London town. 

Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty (1916 song) 

13.100 Irving Mills 

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1894-1985 

It don't mean a thing 

If it ain't got that swing. 

It Don't Mean a Thing (1932 song; music by Duke Ellington) 

13.101 A. A. Milne 

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1882-1956 

The more it snows 

(Tiddely pom), 

The more it goes 


The more it goes 

(Tiddely pom) 

On snowing. 

And nobody knows 


How cold my toes


How cold my toes 


Are growing. 

House at Pooh Corner (1928) ch. 1 

Tiggers don't like honey. 

House at Pooh Corner (1928) ch. 2 

King John was not a good man-- 

He had his little ways. 

And sometimes no one spoke to him 

For days and days and days. 

Now We Are Six (1927) "King John's Christmas" 

When I was young, we always had mornings like this. 

Toad of Toad Hall (1929) act 2, sc. 3 (Milne's dramatization of Kenneth 

Grahame's Wind in the Willows) 

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace-- 

Christopher Robin went down with Alice. 

Alice is marrying one of the guard. 

"A soldier's life is terrible hard," 

Says Alice. 

When We Were Very Young (1924) "Buckingham Palace" 

John had 

Great Big 

Waterproof 

Boots on; 

John had a 

Great Big 


Hat; 

John had a 

Great Big 


Mackintosh-- 

And that 

(Said John) 

Is 

That. 

When We Were Very Young (1924) "Happiness" 

James James 

Morrison Morrison 

Weatherby George Dupree 

Took great 

Care of his Mother, 

Though he was only three. 

James James 

Said to his Mother, 

"Mother," he said, said he; 

"You must never go down to the end of the town, 

if you don't go down with me." 

When We Were Very Young (1924) "Disobedience" 

What is the matter with Mary Jane? 

She's perfectly well and she hasn't a pain, 

And it's lovely rice pudding for dinner again!

What is the matter with Mary Jane? 

When We Were Very Young (1924) "Rice Pudding" 

The King asked 

The Queen, and 

The Queen asked 

The Dairymaid: 

"Could we have some butter for 

The Royal slice of bread?" 

When We Were Very Young (1924) "The King's Breakfast" 

The King said 

"Butter, eh?" 

And bounced out of bed. 


Nobody, 

My darling, 

Could call me 

A fussy man-- 

BUT 

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread! 


Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed, 

Droops on the little hands little gold head. 

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! 

Christopher Robin is saying his prayers. 

When We Were Very Young (1924) "Vespers" 

Isn't it funny 

How a bear likes honey? 

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! 

I wonder why he does? 

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) ch. 1 

How sweet to be a Cloud 

Floating in the Blue! 

It makes him very proud 

To be a little cloud. 


Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and 

he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when 

Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited 

that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But 

don't bother about the bread, please." And for a long time after that he 

said nothing...until at last, humming to himself in a rather sticky voice, 

he got up, shook Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and said that he must be 

going on. 


"Well," said Owl, "the customary procedure in such cases is as follows." 

"What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?" said Pooh. "For I am a Bear of 

Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me." 


Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and looked 

at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. 

Pathetic."


Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie. 

A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. 

Ask me a riddle and I reply: 

"Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie." 


Time for a little something. 


My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters 

get in the wrong places. 


On Monday, when the sun is hot 

I wonder to myself a lot: 

"Now is it true, or is it not, 

"That what is which and which is what?" 


3 Cheers for Pooh! 

(For Who?) 

For Pooh-- 

(Why what did he do?) 

I thought you knew; 

He saved his friend from a wetting! 


13.102 Lord Milner (Alfred, Viscount Milner) 

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1854-1925 

If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it 

is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences. 

Speech at Glasgow, 26 Nov. 1909, in The Times 27 Nov. 1909 

13.103 Adrian Mitchell 

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1932- 

Most people ignore most poetry 

because 

most poetry ignores most people. 

Poems (1964) p. 8 

13.104 Joni Mitchell 

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1945- 

I've looked at life from both sides now, 

From win and lose and still somehow 

It's life's illusions I recall; 

I really don't know life at all. 

Both Sides Now (1967 song) 

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot, 

With a pink hotel, 

A boutique, and a swinging hot spot. 

Big Yellow Taxi (1970 song) 

We are stardust, 

We are golden, 

And we got to get ourselves 

Back to the garden. 

Woodstock (1969 song) 

13.105 Margaret Mitchell 

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1900-1949 

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any 

of them. 

Gone with the Wind (1936) ch. 38 

Scarlett...I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I 

can't....My dear, I don't give a damn. 

Gone with the Wind (1936) ch. 57 (in Sidney Howard's script for the film 

version (1939) this became "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!") 

Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is 

another day. 

Gone with the Wind (1936) ch. 57 (closing words) 

13.106 Jessica Mitford 

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1917- 

According to one of my correspondents, Jessica Mitford was overheard to 

remark, "I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that 

I wouldn't want one to bury my sister." 

Saturday Review 1 Feb. 1964 

13.107 Nancy Mitford 

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1904-1973 

"Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry" is an 

aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like 

an Indian widow. 

Love in a Cold Climate (1949) pt. 1, ch. 2 

"Twenty three and a quarter minutes past," Uncle Matthew was saying 

furiously, "in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella 

will be late." 

Love in a Cold Climate (1949) pt. 1, ch. 13 

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut 

off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. 

Noblesse Oblige (1956) p. 39 

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang It's so 

frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Pursuit of Love (1945) ch. 9 

Uncle Matthew's four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had 

given him no great opinion of foreigners. "Frogs," he would say, "are 

slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and 

foreigners are fiends." 

Pursuit of Love (1945) ch. 15 

13.108 Addison Mizner 

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1892-1933 

See Ethel Watts Mumford (13.139) 

13.109 Wilson Mizner 

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1876-1933 

Among his [Mizner's] philosophical maxims were "Be nice to people on your 

way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down," "Treat a whore like 

a lady and a lady like a whore," and "If you steal from one author, it's 

plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research." 

Alva Johnston The Legendary Mizners (1953) ch. 4 

Mizner's comment on Hollywood, "It's a trip through a sewer in a 

glass-bottomed boat," was converted by Mayor Jimmy Walker into "A reformer 

is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat." 

Alva Johnston The Legendary Mizners (1953) ch. 4 

13.110 Walter Mondale 

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1928- 

See Cliff Freeman (6.46) 

13.111 William Cosmo Monkhouse 

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1840-1901 

There once was an old man of Lyme 

Who married three wives at a time, 

When asked "Why a third?" 

He replied, "One's absurd! 

And bigamy, Sir, is a crime!" 

Nonsense Rhymes (1902) 

13.112 Harold Monro 

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1879-1932 

When the tea is brought at five o'clock, 

And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, 

The little black cat with bright green eyes 

Is suddenly purring there. 

Children of Love (1914) "Milk for the Cat"

13.113 Marilyn Monroe 

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1926-1962 

Asked if she really had nothing on in the [calendar] photograph, Marilyn, 

her blue eyes wide, purred: "I had the radio on." 

Time 11 Aug. 1952 

13.114 C. E. Montague 

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1867-1928 

War hath no fury like a non-combatant. 

Disenchantment (1922) ch. 16 

13.115 Field-Marshal Montgomery (Viscount Montgomery of Alamein) 

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1887-1976 

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow." 

Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That 

is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 

of war. It is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China." It is 

a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives, and an army fighting 

there would be engulfed by what is known as the Ming Bing, the people's 

insurgents. 

Hansard (Lords) 30 May 1962, col. 227 

Far from helping these unnatural practices along, surely our task is to 

build a bulwark which will defy evil influences which are seeking to 

undermine the very foundations of our national character--defy them; do 

not help them. I have heard some say--and, indeed, the noble Earl said so 

himself--that such practices are allowed in France and in other NATO 

countries. We are not French, and we are not other nationals. We are 

British, thank God! 

Hansard (Lords) 24 May 1965, col. 648 (2nd reading of Sexual Offences 

Bill) 

13.116 George Moore 

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1852-1933 

All reformers are bachelors. 

Bending of the Bough (1900) act 1 

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to 

find it. 

Brook Kerith (1916) ch. 11 

Had I not myself written, only half conscious of the truth, that art must 

be parochial in the beginning to become cosmopolitan in the end? 

Hail and Farewell: Ave (1911) p. 3 

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. 

Impressions and Opinions (1891) "Balzac"

Our contention is...that acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it 

be an art at all. 

Impressions and Opinions (1891) "Mummer-Worship" 

13.117 Marianne Moore 

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1887-1972 

O to be a dragon, 

a symbol of the power of Heaven--of silkworm 

size or immense; at times invisible. 

Felicitous phenomenon! 

O To Be a Dragon (1959) title poem 

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this 

fiddle. 

Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in 

it, after all, a place for the genuine. 

Selected Poems (1935) "Poetry" 

Nor till the poets among us can be 

"literalists of 

the imagination"--above 

insolence and triviality and can present 

for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them, shall we have 

it. 

Selected Poems (1935) "Poetry" 

My father used to say, 

"Superior people never make long visits, 

have to be shown Longfellow's grave 

or the glass flowers at Harvard." 

Selected Poems (1935) "Silence" 

Nor was he insincere in saying, "Make my house your inn." 

Inns are not residences. 

Selected Poems (1935) "Silence" 

13.118 Larry Morey 

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1905-1971 

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, 

It's off to work we go. 

Heigh-Ho (1937 song; music by Frank Churchill) 

Whistle while you work. 

Title of song (1937; music by Frank Churchill) 

13.119 Robin Morgan 

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1941- 

Sisterhood is powerful. 

Title of book (1970)

13.120 Christian Morgenstern 

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1871-1914 

Es war einmal ein Lattenzaun, 

mit Zwischenraum, hindurchzuschaun. 

Ein Architekt, der dieses sah, 

Stand eines Abends pl”tzlich da-und 

nahm den Zwischenraum heraus 

und baute draus ein grosses Haus. 

One time there was a picket fence 

With space to gaze from hence to thence. 

An architect who saw this sight 

Approached it suddenly one night, 

Removed the spaces from the fence 

And built of them a residence. 

Galgenlieder (Gallows Songs, 1905) "Der Lattenzaun"; tr. Max Knight 1963 

13.121 Christopher Morley 

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1890-1957 

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. 

Thunder on the Left (1925) ch. 14 

13.122 Lord Morley (John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn) 

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1838-1923 

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect. 

Life of Gladstone (1903) vol. 1, p. 194 

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him. 

On Compromise (1874) ch. 5 

13.123 Desmond Morris 

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1928- 

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. 

The Human Zoo (1969) p. 8 

There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. 

One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception 

is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. 

The Naked Ape (1967) p. 9 

13.124 Herbert Morrison (Baron Morrison of Lambeth) 

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1888-1965 

Work is the call. Work at war speed. Good-night--and go to it. 

Broadcast as Minister of Supply, 22 May 1940, in Daily Herald 23 May 1940

13.125 Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore 

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Jim Morrison 1943-1971 

Ray Manzarek 1935- 

Robby Krieger 1946- 

John Densmore 1945- 

C'mon, baby, light my fire. 

Light My Fire (1967 song) 

13.126 R. F. Morrison 

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Just a wee deoch-an-doris, 

Just a wee yin, that's a'. 

Just a wee deoch-an-doris, 

Before we gang awa'. 

There's a wee wifie waitin', 

In a wee but-an-ben; 

If you can say 

"It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht," 

Ye're a' richt, ye ken. 

Just a Wee Deoch-an-Doris (1911 song; music by Whit Cunliffe; sung by 

Harry Lauder) 

13.127 Dwight Morrow 

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1873-1931 

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the 

credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less 

competition. 

Letter to his son, in Harold Nicolson Dwight Morrow (1935) ch. 3 

13.128 John Mortimer 

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1923- 

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk 

and the yoghurt. 


No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and 

relatively clean finger nails. 

Voyage Round My Father (1971) act 1 

13.129 J. B. Morton ('Beachcomber') 

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1893-1975 

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool 

may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear. 

By the Way (1931) p. 282

Hush, hush, 

Nobody cares! 

Christopher Robin 

Has 

Fallen 

Down- 

Stairs. 

By the Way (1931) p. 367 

Mr Justice Cocklecarrot began the hearing of a very curious case 

yesterday. A Mrs Tasker is accused of continually ringing the doorbell of 

a Mrs Renton, and then, when the door is opened, pushing a dozen 

red-bearded dwarfs into the hall and leaving them there. 

Diet of Thistles (1938) pt. 7 

The Doctor is said also to have invented an extraordinary weapon which 

will make war less brutal. It is described as a very powerful liquid which 

rots braces at a distance of a mile. 

Gallimaufry (1936) "Bracerot" 

The man with the false nose had gone to that bourne from which no 

hollingsworth returns. 

Gallimaufry (1936) "Another True Story" 

Dr Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht has patented a new invention. 

It is an illuminated trouser-clip for bicyclists who are using main roads 

at night. 

Morton's Folly (1933) p. 99 

13.130 Rogers Morton 

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1914-1979 

After losing five of the last six primaries, President Ford's campaign 

manager, Rogers Morton, was asked if he plans any change in strategy. Said 

Morton: "I'm not going to rearrange the furniture on the deck of the 

Titanic." 

Washington Post 16 May 1976, p. C8 

13.131 Sir Oswald Mosley 

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1896-1980 

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the 

left and is now in the centre of politics. 

Letter in The Times 26 Apr. 1968 

13.132 Lord Louis Mountbatten (Viscount Mountbatten of Burma) 

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1900-1979 

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had 

than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral. 

In Richard Hough Mountbatten (1980) p. 3 

As a military man who has given half a century of active service, I say in 

all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars

cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our 

perils because of the illusions which they have generated. 

Speech at Strasbourg, 11 May 1979, in P. Ziegler Mountbatten (1985) ch. 52 

13.133 Lord Moynihan (Berkeley Moynihan, Baron Moynihan) 

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1865-1936 

Lord Dawson of Penn 

Has killed lots of men. 

So that's why we sing 

God save the King. 

In Kenneth Rose King George V (1983) ch. 9 

13.134 Robert Mugabe 

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1924- 

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to 

play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. 

In Sunday Times 26 Feb. 1984 

13.135 Kitty Muggeridge 

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David Frost has risen without trace. 

Said circa 1965 to Malcolm Muggeridge 

13.136 Malcolm Muggeridge 

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1903-1990 

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous 

indignation. 

The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge (1966) "Dolce Vita in a Cold Climate" 

Once in the lobby of the Midland Hotel in Manchester when I happened to be 

in some public disfavour, a man came up to me, grasped my hand and 

observed: "Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." 

Radio Times 9 July 1964 

Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. 

Time 14 Sept. 1953 

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of 

fulfilment. 

Tread Softly (1966) p. 46 

As has truly been said in his days as an active politician, he [Sir 

Anthony Eden] was not only a bore; he bored for England. 

Tread Softly (1966) p. 147 

13.137 Edwin Muir 

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1887-1959

And without fear the lawless roads 

Ran wrong through all the land. 

Journeys and Places (1937) "H”lderlin's Journey" 

13.138 Herbert J. Muller 

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1905- 

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry 

book-keeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life 

than has Dante or Michelangelo. 

Uses of the Past (1957) ch. 8 

13.139 Ethel Watts Mumford, Oliver Herford, and Addison Mizner 

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Ethel Watts Mumford 1878-1940 

Oliver Herford 1863-1935 

Addison Mizner 1872-1933 

In the midst of life we are in debt. 

Altogether New Cynic's Calendar (1907)--a parody of Book of Common 

Prayer: see Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 389:12 

God gives us our relatives--thank God we can choose our friends. 

Cynic's Calendar (1903) 

13.140 Lewis Mumford 

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1895- 

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its 

grandfathers. 

The Brown Decades (1931) p. 3 

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. 

Quote Magazine 8 Oct. 1961 

13.141 Sir Alfred Munnings 

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1878-1959 

I find myself a President of a body of men who are what I call 

shilly-shallying. They feel that there is something in this so-called 

modern art....I myself would rather have--excuse me, my Lord Archbishop--a 

damned bad failure, a bad, dusty old picture where somebody has tried to 

do something, to set down something that they have seen and felt, than all 

this affected juggling, this following of well--shall we call it the 

school of Paris?...Anthony Blunt...once stood in this room with me when 

the King's pictures were here. And there was a Reynolds hanging there and 

he said, "That Reynolds isn't as great as a Picasso." Believe me, what an 

extraordinary thing for a man to say. 

Speech at Royal Academy, 28 Apr. 1949, in The Finish (1952) ch. 22 

13.142 Richard Murdoch, and Kenneth Horne

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Richard Murdoch 1907-1990 

Kenneth Horne 1900-1969 

Have you read any good books lately? 

Catch-phrase used by Richard Murdoch in radio comedy series 

Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh (started 2 Jan. 1947) 

Good morning, sir--was there something? 

Catch-phrase used by Sam Costa in radio comedy series 

Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh (started 2 Jan. 1947), in Norman Hackforth Solo 

for Horne (1976) p. 58 

13.143 C. W. Murphy and Will Letters 

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Has anybody here seen Kelly? 

Kelly from the Isle of Man? 

Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1909 song) 

13.144 Ed Murphy 

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I was project manager at Edwards Airforce Base during Colonel J. P. 

Stapp's experimental crash research testing on the track at North Base. 

The law's namesake was Captain Ed Murphy--a development engineer from 

Wright aircraft lab. Frustration with a strap transducer which was 

malfunctioning due to an error by a lab technician in the wiring of the 

strain gauge bridges caused Murphy to remark: "If there's any way to do it 

wrong, he will!" I assigned Murphy's Law to the statement and the 

associated variations. 

George E. Nichols in Listener 16 Feb. 1984 

13.145 Fred Murray 

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Ginger, you're balmy! 


I'm Henery the Eighth, I am! 

Henery the Eighth, I am, I am! 

I got married to the widow next door, 

She's been married seven times before. 

Every one was a Henery, 

She wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam. 

I'm her eighth old man named Henery 

I'm Henery the Eighth, I am! 

I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am! (1911 song) 

13.146 Edward R. Murrow 

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1908-1965 

As Ed Murrow once said about Vietnam, anyone who isn't confused doesn't

eally understand the situation. 

Walter Bryan The Improbable Irish (1969) ch. 1 

This--is London. 

Words used to open his broadcasts from London, 1938-45: see E. R. Murrow 

In Search of Light (1967) p. 7 

He [Winston Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into 

battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon 

whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended. 

Broadcast, 30 Nov. 1954, in In Search of Light (1967) p. 276 

13.147 Benito Mussolini 

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1883-1945 

Voglio partire in perfetto orario....D'ora innanzi ogni cosa deve 

camminare alla perfezione. 

We must leave exactly on time....From now on everything must function to 

perfection. 

Giorgio Pini Mussolini (1939) vol. 2, ch. 6, p. 251 (said to 

a station-master). Cf. HRH Infanta Eulalia of Spain Courts and Countries 

after the War (1925) ch. 13: "The first benefit of Benito Mussolini's 

direction in Italy begins to be felt when one crosses the Italian Frontier 

and hears "Il treno arriva all'orario" [i.e. "the train is arriving on 

time"] 

13.148 A. J. Muste 

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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. 

In New York Times 16 Nov. 1967, p. 46 

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14.1 Vladimir Nabokov 

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1899-1977 

Her exotic daydreams do not prevent her from being small-town bourgeois at 

heart, clinging to conventional ideas or committing this or that 

conventional violation of the conventional, adultery being a most 

conventional way to rise above the conventional. 

Lectures on Literature (1980) "Madame Bovary" 

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: 

the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, 

at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. 

Lolita (1955) ch. 1 

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even 

greater one.

Pale Fire (1962) p. 225 

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our 

existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of 

darkness. 

Speak, Memory (1951) ch. 1 

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak 

like a child. 

Strong Opinions (1973) foreword 

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important 

to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. 

Strong Opinions (1973) p. 33 

14.2 Ralph Nader 

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1934- 

Unsafe at any speed. 


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1879-1949 

If only Bapu [Gandhi] knew the cost of setting him up in poverty! 

In A. Campbell-Johnson Mission with Mountbatten (1951) ch. 12 

14.4 Fridtjof Nansen 

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1861-1930 

He [Nansen] once told me the rules by which, in his explorations and at 

Geneva, his work was done. There were three of them, and they were very 

simple: "Never stop because you are afraid--you are never so likely to be 

wrong." "Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention." "The 

difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes 

a little longer." 

Philip Noel-Baker in Listener 14 Dec. 1939 

14.5 Ogden Nash 

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1902-1971 

The camel has a single hump; 

The dromedary, two; 

Or else the other way around, 

I'm never sure. Are you? 

Bad Parents' Garden of Verse (1936) "The Camel" 

The trouble with a kitten is 

THAT 

Eventually it becomes a 

CAT 

The Face is Familiar (1940) "The Kitten"

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave 

When they think that their children are na‹ve. 

The Face is Familiar (1940) "Baby, What Makes the Sky Blue" 

Sure, deck your lower limbs in pants; 

Yours are the limbs, my sweeting. 

You look divine as you advance-- 

Have you seen yourself retreating? 

The Face is Familiar (1940) "What's the Use?" 

The cow is of the bovine ilk; 

One end is moo, the other, milk; 

Free Wheeling (1931) "The Cow" 

A bit of talcum 

Is always walcum. 

Free Wheeling (1931) "The Baby" 

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. 

Good Intentions (1942) "You and Me and P. B. Shelley" 

Beneath this slab 

John Brown is stowed. 

He watched the ads, 

And not the road. 

Good Intentions (1942) "Lather as You Go" 

I have a bone to pick with Fate. 

Come here and tell me, girlie, 

Do you think my mind is maturing late, 

Or simply rotted early? 

Good Intentions (1942) "Lines on Facing Forty" 

I test my bath before I sit, 

And I'm always moved to wonderment 

That what chills the finger not a bit 

Is so frigid upon the fundament. 

Good Intentions (1942) "Samson Agonistes" 

Women would rather be right than be reasonable. 

Good Intentions (1942) "Frailty, Thy Name is a Misnomer" 

Parsley 

Is gharsley. 

Good Intentions (1942) "Further Reflections on Parsley" 

God in His wisdom made the fly 

And then forgot to tell us why. 

Good Intentions (1942) "The Fly" 

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, 

But hating, my boy, is an art. 

Happy Days (1933) "Plea for Less Malice Toward None" 

I think that I shall never see 

A billboard lovely as a tree. 

Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, 

I'll never see a tree at all. 

Happy Days (1933) "Song of the Open Road." Cf. Joyce Kilmer 121:8

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, 

And that's what parents were created for. 

Happy Days (1933) "The Parent" 

One would be in less danger 

From the wiles of the stranger 

If one's own kin and kith 

Were more fun to be with. 

Hard Lines (1931) "Family Court" 

A girl whose cheeks are covered with paint 

Has an advantage with me over one whose ain't. 

Hard Lines (1931) "Biological Reflection" 

Candy 

Is dandy 

But liquor 

Is quicker. 

Hard Lines (1931) "Reflections on Ice-breaking" 

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks 

Which practically conceal its sex. 

I think it clever of the turtle 

In such a fix to be so fertile. 

Hard Lines (1931) "Autres Bˆtes, Autres Moeurs" 

Let us pause to consider the English, 

Who when they pause to consider themselves they get all reticently 

thrilled and tinglish, 

Because every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: 

That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there 

is. 

I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938) "England Expects" 

There was a young belle of old Natchez 

Whose garments were always in patchez. 

When comment arose 

On the state of her clothes, 

She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez. 

I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938) "Requiem" 

Home is heaven and orgies are vile, 

But you need an orgy, once in a while. 

Primrose Path (1935) "Home, 99 44/100 % Sweet Home" 

He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick, 

And helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. 

Versus (1949) "The Perfect Husband" 

14.6 George Jean Nathan 

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1882-1958 

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens 

his mouth. 

American Mercury Sept. 1929 

14.7 Terry Nation

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Exterminate! Exterminate! 

Said by the Daleks in BBC television series Dr Who from Dec. 1963, in 

David Whitaker and Terry Nation Dr Who (1964) ch. 9 

14.8 James Ball Naylor 

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1860-1945 

King David and King Solomon 

Led merry, merry lives, 

With many, many lady friends, 

And many, many wives; 

But when old age crept over them-- 

With many, many qualms!-- 

King Solomon wrote the Proverbs 

And King David wrote the Psalms. 

Vagrant Verse (1935) "King David and King Solomon" 

14.9 Jawaharlal Nehru 

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1889-1964 

Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives and there is 

darkness everywhere. I do not know what to tell you and how to say it. Our 

beloved leader, Bapu as we called him, the father of the nation, is no 

more. 

Broadcast, 30 Jan. 1948 (after Gandhi's assassination), in Richard J. 

Walsh Nehru on Gandhi (1948) ch. 6 

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. 

"Basic Approach," repr. in Vincent Shean Nehru: the Years of Power (1960) 

p. 294 

Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of a capitalist society, 

if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and 

thus increase the gap between them. 

"Basic Approach," repr. in Vincent Shean Nehru: the Years of Power (1960) 

p. 295 

14.10 Allan Nevins 

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1890-1971 

The former Allies had blundered in the past by offering Germany too 

little, and offering even that too late, until finally Nazi Germany had 

become a menace to all mankind. 

In Current History (New York) May 1935, p. 178 

14.11 Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse 

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Anthony Newley 1931- 

Leslie Bricusse 1931-

Stop the world, I want to get off. 

Title of musical (1961) 

14.12 Huey Newton 

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1942- 

I suggested [in 1966] that we use the panther as our symbol and call our 

political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, 

but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will 

strike out. 

Revolutionary Suicide (1973) ch. 16 

14.13 Vivian Nicholson 

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1936- 

I want to spend, and spend, and spend. 

Said to reporters on arriving to collect her husband's football pools 

winnings of œ152,000, in Daily Herald 28 Sept. 1961 

14.14 Sir Harold Nicolson 

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1886-1968 

Chamberlain (who has the mind and manner of a clothes-brush) aims only at 

assuring temporary peace at the price of ultimate defeat. 

Diary 6 June 1938, in Diaries and Letters (1966) p. 345 

Attlee is a charming and intelligent man, but as a public speaker he is, 

compared to Winston [Churchill], like a village fiddler after Paganini. 

Diary 10 Nov. 1947, in Diaries and Letters (1968) p. 113 

14.15 Reinhold Niebuhr 

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1892-1971 

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination 

to injustice makes democracy necessary. 

Children of Light and Children of Darkness (1944) foreword 

God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; 

Give us the courage to change what should be changed; 

Give us the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. 

In Richard Wightman Fox Reinhold Niebuhr (1985) ch. 12 (prayer said to 

have been first published in 1951) 

14.16 Carl Nielsen 

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1865-1931 

Musik er liv, som dette und slukkelig. 

Music is life, and like it is inextinguishable.

4th Symphony ("The Inextinguishable," 1916) preface 

14.17 Martin Niem”ller 

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1892-1984 

When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not 

concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, 

and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions 

and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not 

concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church--and there 

was nobody left to be concerned. 

In Congressional Record 14 Oct. 1968, p. 31636 

14.18 Florence Nightingale 

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1820-1910 

On December 5 [1907], Sir Douglas Dawson...brought the Order [of 

Merit]...to South Street. Miss Nightingale understood that some kindness 

had been done to her, but hardly more. "Too kind, too kind," she said. 

E. Cook Life of Florence Nightingale (1913) vol. 2, pt. 7, ch. 9 

14.19 Richard Milhous Nixon 

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1913- 

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. 

In David Frost I Gave Them a Sword (1978) ch. 8 

I brought myself down. I gave them a sword. And they stuck it in. And they 

twisted it with relish. And, I guess, if I'd been in their position, I'd 

have done the same thing. 

Television interview with David Frost, 19 May 1977, in David Frost I Gave 

Them a Sword (1978) ch. 10 

I leave you gentlemen now and you will now write it. You will interpret 

it. That's your right. But as I leave you I want you to know--just think 

how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around 

any more because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference....I hope 

that what I have said today will at least make television, radio, the 

press first recognize the great responsibility they have to report all the 

news and, second, recognize that they have a right and a responsibility, 

if they're against a candidate, to give him the shaft, but also recognize 

if they give him the shaft, put one lonely reporter on the campaign who 

will report what the candidate says now and then. Thank you gentlemen, and 

good day. 

After losing the election for Governor of California, 5 Nov. 1962, in New 

York Times 8 Nov. 1962, p. 8 

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth, to see it like it is 

and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth and to live 

the truth. That's what we will do. 

Nomination acceptance speech, Miami, 8 Aug. 1968, in New York Times 9 Aug. 

1968, p. 20 

Hello, Neil and Buzz. I'm talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room

at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic 

telephone call ever made. 

Speaking to the first men to land on the moon, 20 July 1969, in New York 

Times 21 July 1969, p. 2 

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. 

Speech 24 July 1969, welcoming the return of the first men to land on the 

moon, in New York Times 25 July 1969, p. 29 

There can be no whitewash at the White House. 

Television speech on Watergate, 30 Apr. 1973, in New York Times 1 May 

1973, p. 31 

I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never 

profited, never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And 

in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And 

I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that 

I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether 

or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned 

everything I've got. 

Speech at press conference, 17 Nov. 1973, in New York Times 18 Nov. 1973, 

p. 62 

This country needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good 

carpenters. 

Farewell address at White House, 9 Aug. 1974, cited in New York Times 

10 Aug. 1974, p. 4 

Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime that we've got is honestly 

ours. I should say this--that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does 

have a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that 

she'd look good in anything. One other thing I probably should tell you, 

because if I don't they'll probably be saying this about me too, we did 

get something--a gift--after the election....It was a little 

cocker-spaniel dog....And our little girl--Tricia, the 6-year-old--named 

it Checkers. And you know the kids love that dog and I just want to say 

this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're going to 

keep it. 

Speech on television, 23 Sept. 1952, in P. Andrews This Man Nixon (1952) 

p. 60 

14.20 David Nobbs 

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"This one's going to be a real winner," said C. J. "I didn't get where 

I am today without knowing a real winner when I see one." 

Death of Reginald Perrin (1975) p. 9 (subsequently a catch-phrase in BBC 

television series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin , 1976-80) 

14.21 Milton Nobles 

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1847-1924 

The villain still pursued her. 

Phoenix (1900) act 1, sc. 3 

14.22 Albert J. Nock 

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1873-1945 

It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be 

paid for only with goods and services. 

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943) ch. 13 

14.23 Frank Norman and Lionel Bart 

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Frank Norman 1931- 

Lionel Bart 1930- 

Fings ain't wot they used t'be. 

Title of musical (1959). Cf. Ted Persons 170:9 

14.24 Lord Northcliffe (Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe) 

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1865-1922 

Harmsworth had always said: "When I want a peerage, I shall buy it like an 

honest man." 

Tom Driberg Swaff: the Life and Times of Hannen Swaffer (1974) ch. 2 

14.25 Jack Norworth 

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1879-1959 

Oh, shine on, shine on, harvest moon 

Up in the sky. 

I ain't had no lovin' 

Since April, January, June, or July. 

Shine On, Harvest Moon (1908 song; music by Nora Bayes-Norworth) 

Take me out to the ball game. 

Title of song (1908; music by Albert Von Tilzer) 

14.26 Alfred Noyes 

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1880-1958 

Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time, 

Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!) 

And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonderland; 

Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!) 

Poems (1904) "The Barrel-Organ" 

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, 

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, 

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, 

And the highwayman came riding-Riding-riding- 

The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. 

Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems (1907) "The Highwayman" 

He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there 

The landlord's black-eyed daughter,

Bess, the landlord's daughter, 

Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair. 


Look for me by moonlight; 

Watch for me by moonlight; 

I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way! 


14.27 Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) 

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The late Bill Nye once said, "I have been told that Wagner's music is 

better than it sounds." 

Mark Twain Autobiography (1924) vol. 1, p. 338 

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15.1 Captain Lawrence Oates 

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1880-1912 

I am just going outside and may be some time. 

Last words, quoted in R. F. Scott Diary 16-17 Mar. 1912, in Last 

Expedition (1913) p. 593 

15.2 Edna O'Brien 

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1932- 

August is a wicked month. 


The vote, I thought, means nothing to women. We should be armed. 

In Erica Jong Fear of Flying (1973) ch. 16 

Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made 

them different. 

Girls in their Married Bliss (1964) ch. 10 

15.3 Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan or O Nuallain) 

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1911-1966 

The Pooka MacPhellimey, a member of the devil class, sat in his hut in the 

middle of a firwood meditating on the nature of the numerals and 

segregating in his mind the odd ones from the even. 

At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) ch. 1 

The conclusion of your syllogism, I said lightly, is fallacious, being 

based upon licensed premises. 

At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) ch. 1

A pint of plain is your only man. 

At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) "The Workman's Friend" 

It is not that I half knew my mother. I knew half of her: the lower 

half--her lap, legs, feet, her hands and wrists as she bent forward. 

The Hard Life (1961) p. 11 

People who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the 

rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the 

personalities of their bicycles as a result of the interchanging of the 

atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people 

in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles. 

The Third Policeman (1967) p. 85 

15.4 Sean O'Casey 

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1884-1964 

He's an oul' butty o' mine--oh, he's a darlin' man, a daarlin' man. 

Juno and the Paycock (1925) act 1 

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis! 


I often looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question--what is the 

stars, what is the stars? 


Sacred Heart of the Crucified Jesus, take our hearts o' stone...an' give 

us hearts o' flesh!...Take away this murdherin' hate...an' give us Thine 

own eternal love! 


The Polis as Polis, in this city, is Null an' Void! 


When one has reached 81...one likes to sit back and let the world turn by 

itself, without trying to push it. 

New York Times 25 Sept. 1960, pt. 2, p. 3 

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as 

great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many 

things as possible. 

The Plough and the Stars (1926) act 1 

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep 

it. 

The Plough and the Stars (1926) act 2 

English literature's performing flea [P. G. Wodehouse]. 

In P. G. Wodehouse Performing Flea (1953) p. 217 

15.5 Edwin O'Connor 

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1918-1968 

The last hurrah. 

Title of novel (1956)

15.6 Se n O'Faol in 

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1900- 

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask. 

Atlantic Monthly Dec. 1956, p. 76 

15.7 David Ogilvy 

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1911- 

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence 

if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade 

her to buy anything. 

Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963) ch. 5 

15.8 Geoffrey O'Hara 

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1882-1967 

K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy, 

You're the only g-g-g-girl that I adore;-- 

When the m-m-m-moon shines, 

Over the cow shed, 

I'll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door. 

K-K-K-Katy (1918 song) 

15.9 John O'Hara 

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1905-1970 

George [Gershwin] died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to believe that 

if I don't want to. 

Newsweek 15 July 1940, p. 34 

15.10 Patrick O'Keefe 

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1872-1934 

Say it with flowers. 

Slogan for the Society of American Florists, in Florists' Exchange 15 Dec. 

1917, p. 1268 

15.11 Chauncey Olcott and George Graff Jr. 

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When Irish eyes are smiling. 

Title of song (1912; music by Ernest R. Ball) 

15.12 Frederick Scott Oliver 

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1864-1934

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is 

expected of him by prevalent opinion. 

The Endless Adventure (1930) vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 20 

15.13 Laurence Olivier (Baron Olivier of Brighton) 

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1907-1989 

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the 

occupation of an adult. 

In Time 3 July 1978, p. 33 

15.14 Frank Ward O'Malley 

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1875-1932 

See Elbert Hubbard (8.85) 

15.15 Mary O'Malley 

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1941- 

Once a Catholic always a Catholic. That's the rule. 

Once a Catholic (1971) act 1, sc. 2. Cf. Angus Wilson 

15.16 Eugene O'Neill 

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1888-1953 

For de little stealin' dey gits you in jail soon or late. For de big 

stealin' dey makes you Emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you 

croaks. 

The Emperor Jones (1921) sc. 1 

The iceman cometh. 


Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. 

Lazarus Laughed (1927) act 2, sc. 1 

When men make gods, there is no God! 

Lazarus Laughed (1927) act 2, sc. 2 

A long day's journey into night. 

Title of play (written 1940-1; published 1956) 

Life is perhaps most wisely regarded as a bad dream between two 

awakenings, and every day is a life in miniature. 

Marco Millions (1928) act 2, sc. 2 

The sea hates a coward! 

Mourning becomes Electra (1931) pt. 2, act 4 

What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing!...the ugly and 

disgusting...the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember!

Strange Interlude (1928) pt. 1, act 2 

The only living life is in the past and future...the present is an 

interlude...strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear 

witness we are living. 


Strange interlude! Yes, our lives are merely strange dark interludes in 

the electrical display of God the Father! 


15.17 Brian O'Nolan 

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1911-1966 

See Flann O'Brien (15.3) 

15.18 J. Robert Oppenheimer 

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1904-1967 

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humour, no 

overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and 

this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. 

Lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 25 Nov. 1947, in Open 

Mind (1955) ch. 5 

15.19 Susie Orbach 

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1946- 

Fat is a feminist issue. 


15.20 Baroness Orczy 

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1865-1947 

We seek him here, we seek him there, 

Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. 

Is he in heaven?--Is he in hell? 

That demmed, elusive Pimpernel? 

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) ch. 12 

15.21 David Ormsby Gore 

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1918-1985 

See Lord Harlech (8.23) 

15.22 Jos‚ Ortega y Gasset 

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1883-1955

Yo soy yo y mi circumstancia, y si no la salvo a ella no me salvo yo. 

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not 

preserve myself. 

Meditaciones del Quijote (Meditations of Quixote, 1914) in Obras Completas 

(1946) vol. 1, p. 322 

La civilizaci¢n no es otra cosa que el ensayo de reducir la fuerza 

a ultima ratio. 

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to 

the last resort. 

La Rebeli¢n de las Masas (The Revolt of the Masses, 1930) in Obras 

Completas (1947) vol. 4, p. 191 

15.23 Joe Orton 

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1933-1967 

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was 

fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. 

Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964) act 1 

Kath: Can he be present at the birth of his child?... 

Ed: It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at 

the conception. 

Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964) act 3 

Every luxury was lavished on you--atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision. 

I had to make my own way. 

Loot (1967) act 1 

Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected. 

Loot (1967) act 1 

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to 

keep the paper work down to a minimum. 

Loot (1967) act 2 

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste 

invariably have very bad taste. 

Transatlantic Review Spring 1967, p. 95 

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in 

a Y-shaped coffin. 

What the Butler Saw (1969) act 1 

15.24 George Orwell (Eric Blair) 

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1903-1950 

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. 

Animal Farm (1945) ch. 1 

Four legs good, two legs bad. 


All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.


At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. 

Last words in his notebook, 17 April 1949, in Collected Essays (1968) 

vol. 4, p. 515 

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's thin man 

inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block 

of stone? 

Coming up For Air (1939) pt. 1, ch. 3. See also Cyril Connolly (3.85) 

[Clement] Attlee reminds me of nothing so much as a recently dead fish, 

before it has had time to stiffen. 

Diary 19 May 1942, in Essays (1968 vol. 2, p. 426 

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much 

disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure 

in thinking that human affairs would never improve. 

Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) ch. 30 

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard 

pie....A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. 

Horizon Sept. 1941 "The Art of Donald McGill" 

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that 

everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that 

change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other. 

Inside the Whale (1940) "Charles Dickens" 

Keep the aspidistra flying. 


England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted passage, nor 

is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles 

a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in 

it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons....A family with the 

wrong members in control--that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to 

describing England in a phrase. 

The Lion and the Unicorn (1941) pt. 1 "England Your England" 

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but 

the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. 

The Lion and the Unicorn (1941) pt. 1 "England Your England" 

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 1 

On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous 

face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so 

contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS 

WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. 


War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 


"Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who 

controls the present controls the past." 

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is 

granted, all else follows. 


Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's 

mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. 


Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship 

in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to 

establish the dictatorship. 


If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human 

face--for ever. 


The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent 

cannot be both honest and intelligent. 

Polemic Jan. 1946 "The Prevention of Literature" 

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. 

Polemic May 1946 "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" 

It is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can 

remain superior. 

The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 2 

A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of 

getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact that in 

times of stress "educated" people tend to come to the front. 


There can hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a 

brick without hitting the niece of a bishop. 


As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is 

its adherents. 


The typical Socialist is...a prim little man with a white-collar job, 

usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with 

a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social 

position which he has no intention of forfeiting. 


To the ordinary working man, the sort you would meet in any pub on 

Saturday night, Socialism does not mean much more than better wages and 

shorter hours and nobody bossing you about. 


The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W. H. Auden, 

a sort of gutless Kipling. 


We of the sinking middle class...may sink without further struggles into 

the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will 

not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose 

but our aitches.


In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the 

indefensible. 

Shooting an Elephant (1950) "Politics and the English Language" 

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap 

between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were 

instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish 

squirting out ink. 


Political language--and with variations this is true of all political 

parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists--is designed to make lies sound 

truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to 

pure wind. 


Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. 

Shooting an Elephant (1950) "Reflections on Gandhi" 

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. 

Tribune 22 Mar. 1946, "In Front of your Nose" 

15.25 John Osborne 

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1929- 

Don't clap too hard--it's a very old building. 

The Entertainer (1957) no. 7 

Thank God we're normal, normal, normal, 

Thank God we're normal, 

Yes, this is our finest shower! 


But I have a go, lady, don't I? I 'ave a go. I do. 


Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. 

The Hotel in Amsterdam (1968) act 1 

Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just 

enthusiaism--that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out 

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive! 

Look Back in Anger (1956) act 1 

His knowledge of life and ordinary human beings is so hazy, he really 

deserves some sort of decoration for it--a medal inscribed "For Vaguery in 

the Field." 

Look Back in Anger (1956) act 1 

I don't think one "comes down" from Jimmy's university. According to him, 

it's not even red brick, but white tile. 

Look Back in Anger (1956) act 2, sc. 1 

They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past. 

Look Back in Anger (1956) act 2, sc. 1

There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and 

we all get killed off, it won't be in aid of the old-fashioned, grand 

design. It'll just be for the Brave New-nothing-very-much-thank-you. 

About as pointless and inglorious as stepping in front of a bus. 

Look Back in Anger (1956) act 3, sc. 1 

This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men 

of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the 

sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death....I only hope 

it [my hate] will keep me going. I think it will. I think it may sustain 

me in the last few months. Till then, damn you England. You're rotting 

now, and quite soon you'll disappear. My hate will outrun you yet, if only 

for a few seconds. I wish it could be eternal. 

Tribune 18 Aug. 1961 

15.26 Sir William Osler 

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1849-1919 

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature, was a lesson slowly 

learned in his evolution. 

In Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 62 

Failure to examine the throat is a glaring sin of omission, especially in 

children. One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good 

diagnostician. 


One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to 

take medicine. 


It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he 

would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works. 


The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which 

distinguishes man from animals. 

In H. Cushing Life of Sir William Osler (1925) vol. 1, ch. 14 

My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, 

and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in 

professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. 

Speech at Johns Hopkins University, 22 Feb. 1905, in H. Cushing Life of 

Sir William Osler (1925) vol. 1, ch. 24 

To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment. 

In Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (1985) epigraph 

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. 

Montreal Medical Journal Sept. 1902, p. 696 

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. 

Science and Immortality (1904) ch. 2 

15.27 Peter Demianovich Ouspensky 

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1878-1947

Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may 

be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in 

them. This explains why reverting to old ideas, when people become 

disappointed in new ideas, does not help much. Ideas can be too old. 

A New Model of the Universe (ed. 2, 1934) preface 

15.28 David Owen 

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1938- 

We are fed up with fudging and mudging, with mush and slush. We need 

courage, conviction, and hard work. 

Speech to his supporters at Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, 2 Oct. 

1980, in Guardian 3 Oct. 1980 

The price of championing human rights is a little inconsistency at times. 

Hansard 30 Mar. 1977, p. 397 

I don't care if you criticize us, agree with us or disagree with us. Just 

mention us, that is all we ask. 

Observer 28 Apr. 1985 

15.29 Wilfred Owen 

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1893-1918 

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. 

My subject is War, and the pity of War. 

The Poetry is in the pity. 

Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They 

may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true 

Poets must be truthful. 

Poems (1963 ed.) preface 

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? 

Only the monstrous anger of the guns. 

Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle 

Can patter out their hasty orisons. 

No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, 

Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-- 

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; 

And bugles calling for them from sad shires. 

What candles may be held to speed them all? 

Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes 

Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes. 

The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; 

Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, 

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. 

Poems (1963 ed.) "Anthem for Doomed Youth" 

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood 

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, 

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud 

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-- 

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest 

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est 

Pro patria mori. 

Poems (1963 ed.) "Dulce et Decorum Est" 

Move him into the sun-- 

Gently its touch awoke him once, 

At home, whispering of fields unsown. 

Always it woke him, even in France, 

Until this morning and this snow. 

If anything might rouse him now 

The kind old sun will know. 

Poems (1963 ed.) "Futility" 

Was it for this the clay grew tall? 

--O what made fatuous sunbeams toil 

To break earth's sleep at all? 

Poems (1963 ed.) "Futility" 

Red lips are not so red 

As the stained stones kissed by the English dead. 

Poems (1963 ed.) "Greater Love" 

So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went. 

They were not ours: 

We never heard to which front these were sent. 

Nor there if they yet mock what women meant 

Who gave them flowers. 

Poems (1963 ed.) "The Send-Off" 

It seemed that out of battle I escaped 

Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped 

Through granites which titanic wars had groined. 

Poems (1963 ed.) "Strange Meeting" 

"Strange friend," I said, "here is no cause to mourn." 

"None," said that other, "save the undone years, 

The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours, 

Was my life also; I went hunting wild 

After the wildest beauty in the world. 


Courage was mine, and I had mystery, 

Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: 

To miss the march of this retreating world 

Into vain citadels that are not walled. 


I am the enemy you killed, my friend. 

I knew you in this dark: for you so frowned 

Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed. 

I parried; but my hands were loath and cold. 

Let us sleep now... 


15.30 Oxford and Asquith, Countess of 

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1864-1945

See Margot Asquith (1.61) 

15.31 Oxford and Asquith, Earl of 

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1852-1928 

See Herbert Henry Asquith (1.60) 

16.0 P 

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16.1 Vance Packard 

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1914- 

The hidden persuaders. 


16.2 William Tyler Page 

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1868-1942 

I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, 

by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the 

consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of 

many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established 

upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for 

which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore 

believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its 

Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it 

against all enemies. 

American's Creed (prize-winning competition entry, 3 Apr. 1918) in 

Congressional Record vol. 56, pt. 12 (appendix), p. 286 

16.3 Reginald Paget 

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1908- 

There is no disguise or camouflage about the Prime Minister. He is the 

original banana man, yellow outside and a softer yellow inside. 

Of Sir Anthony Eden in a House of Commons debate, Hansard 14 Sept. 1956, 

col. 432 

16.4 Gerald Page-Wood 

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It beats as it sweeps as it cleans. 

Advertising slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners, devised in 1919, in Nigel 

Rees Slogans (1982) p. 40 

16.5 Revd Ian Paisley 

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1926- 

I would rather be British than just. 

Remark to Bernadette Devlin, Oct. 1969, reported by Sunday Times Insight 

Team in Ulster (1972) ch. 3 

16.6 Michael Palin 

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1943- 

See Graham Chapman et al. (3.47) 

16.7 Norman Panama and Melvin Frank 

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Norman Panama 1914- 

Melvin Frank 1913-1988 

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice 

from the palace has the brew that is true. 

Court Jester (1955 film; words spoken--with difficulty--by Danny Kaye) 

I'll take a lemonade!...In a dirty glass! 

Road to Utopia (1946 film; words spoken by Bob Hope) 

16.8 Dame Christabel Pankhurst 

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1880-1958 

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of 

political life. 

Unshackled (1959) ch. 5 

We are here to claim our right as women, not only to be free, but to fight 

for freedom. That it is our right as well as our duty. It is our 

privilege, as well as our pride and our joy, to take some part in this 

militant movement which, as we believe, means the regeneration of all 

humanity. 

Speech in London, 23 Mar. 1911, in Votes for Women 31 Mar. 1911 

16.9 Emmeline Pankhurst 

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1858-1928 

After all, is not a woman's life, is not her health, are not her limbs 

more valuable than panes of glass? There is no doubt of that, but most 

important of all, does not the breaking of glass produce more effect upon 

the Government? 

Speech on 16 Feb. 1912, in My Own Story (1914) p. 213 

There is something that Governments care far more for than human life, and 

that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we 

shall strike the enemy....Be militant each in your own way. Those of you 

who can express your militancy by going to the House of Commons and 

refusing to leave without satisfaction, as we did in the early days--do 

so....And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to

ebellion. I say to the Government: You have not dared to take the 

leaders of Ulster for their incitement to rebellion. Take me if you dare. 

Speech at Albert Hall, 17 Oct. 1912, in My Own Story (1914) p. 265 

16.10 Emmeline Pankhurst, Dame Christabel Pankhurst, and Annie Kenney 

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Emmeline Pankhurst 1858-1928 

Dame Christabel Pankhurst 1880-1958 

Annie Kenney 1879-1953 

We laid our plans to begin this work at a great meeting to be held in the 

Free Trade Hall, Manchester [on 13 Oct. 1905] with Sir Edward Grey as the 

principal speaker. We intended to get seats in the gallery, directly 

facing the platform and we made for the occasion a large banner with the 

words "Will the Liberal Party Give Votes for Women?" ...At the last 

moment, however, we had to alter the plan because it was impossible to get 

the gallery seats we wanted. There was no way in which we could use our 

large banner, so...we cut out and made a small banner with the three-word 

inscription "Votes for Women." Thus, quite accidentally, there came into 

existence the present slogan of the suffrage movement around the world. 

Emmeline Pankhurst My Own Story (1914) ch. 3 

16.11 Charlie Parker 

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1920-1955 

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't 

live it, it won't come out of your horn. 

In Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955) p. 358 

16.12 Dorothy Parker 

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1893-1967 

One more drink and I'd have been under the host. 

In Howard Teichmann George S. Kaufman (1972) p. 68 

You can always tell that the crash is coming when I start getting tender 

about Our Dumb Friends. Three highballs and I think I'm St Francis of 

Assisi. 

Here Lies (1939) "Just a Little One" 

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds. 

Here Lies (1939) "The Little Hours" 

I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the 

roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. 

I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. 

Here Lies (1939) "The Little Hours" 

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. 

Here Lies (1939) "Sentiment." Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 

583:10 

At intermission [in the 1933 premiere of The Lake], Dorothy Parker turned 

to a companion and made her famous quip: "Katharine Hepburn runs the gamut

from A to B." 

In G. Carey Katharine Hepburn (1985) ch. 6 

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of 

the prettiest love stories in all literature. 

Review of Margot Asquith's Lay Sermons in New Yorker 22 Oct. 1927, in A 

Month of Saturdays (1970) p. 10 

And it is that word "hummy," my darlings, that marks the first place in 

"The House at Pooh Corner" at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up. 

New Yorker 20 Oct. 1928 (review by Dorothy Parker as "Constant Reader") 

Where's the man could ease a heart like a satin gown? 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "The Satin Dress" 

By the time you say you're his, 

Shivering and sighing 

And he vows his passion is 

Infinite, undying-- 

Lady, make a note of this: 

One of you is lying. 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "Unfortunate Coincidence" 

Four be the things I'd been better without: 

Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "Inventory" 

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, 

A medley of extemporanea; 

And love is a thing that can never go wrong; 

And I am Marie of Roumania. 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "Comment" 

Razors pain you 

Rivers are damp; 

Acids stain you; 

And drugs cause cramp. 

Guns aren't lawful; 

Nooses give; 

Gas smells awful; 

You might as well live. 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "R‚sum‚" 

Why is it no one ever sent me yet 

One perfect limousine, do you suppose? 

Ah no, it's always just my luck to get 

One perfect rose. 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "One Perfect Rose" 

Men seldom make passes 

At girls who wear glasses. 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "News Item" 

Woman wants monogamy; 

Man delights in novelty. 

Love is woman's moon and sun; 

Man has other forms of fun. 

Woman lives but in her lord; 

Count to ten, and man is bored. 

With this the gist and sum of it,

What earthly good can come of it? 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "General Review of the Sex Situation" 

Whose love is given over-well 

Shall look on Helen's face in hell 

Whilst they whose love is thin and wise 

Shall see John Knox in Paradise. 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "Partial Comfort" 

Accursed from birth they be 

Who seek to find monogamy, 

Pursuing it from bed to bed-- 

I think they would be better dead. 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "Reuben's Children" 

If, with the literate, I am 

Impelled to try an epigram, 

I never seek to take the credit; 

We all assume that Oscar said it. 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "A Pig's-Eye View of Literature" 

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, 

Love, the reeling midnight through, 

For tomorrow we shall die! 

(But, alas, we never do.) 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "The Flaw in Paganism" 

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, 

And entertains the most exclusive worms. 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "Tombstones in the Starlight no. 3, Epitaph 

for a Very Rich Man" 

Scratch a lover, and find a foe. 

Not So Deep as a Well (1937) "Ballade of a Great Weariness" 

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth 

in it; wise-cracking is simply callisthenics with words. 

In Paris Review Summer 1956, p. 81 

House Beautiful is play lousy. 

Review in New Yorker (1933), in Phyllis Hartnoll Plays and Players (1984) 

p. 89 

Excuse My Dust. 

Suggested epitaph for herself (1925), in Alexander Woollcott While Rome 

Burns (1934) "Our Mrs Parker" 

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them. 

In Alexander Woollcott While Rome Burns (1934) "Our Mrs Parker" 

And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls 

attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all 

surprised. 

Alexander Woollcott While Rome Burns (1934) "Our Mrs Parker" 

"Good work, Mary," our Mrs Parker wired collect [to Mrs Sherwood on the 

arrival of her baby]. "We all knew you had it in you." 

Alexander Woollcott While Rome Burns (1934) "Our Mrs Parker" 

How do they know?

Reaction to the death of President Calvin Coolidge in 1933, in Malcolm 

Cowley Writers at Work 1st Series (1958) p. 65 

As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. 

Comment on lady novelists in Malcolm Cowley Writers at Work 1st Series 

(1958) p. 69 

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and 

there you are. 

In Malcolm Cowley Writers at Work 1st Series (1958) p. 81 

Brevity is the soul of lingerie, as the Petticoat said to the Chemise. 

Caption written for Vogue (1916) in John Keats You Might as well Live 

(1970) p. 32. Cf. Shakespeare's Hamlet act 2, sc. 2: "Brevity is the soul 

of wit" 

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. 

On being challenged to use "horticulture" in a sentence, in John Keats You 

Might as well Live (1970) p. 46 

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. 

On her abortion, in John Keats You Might as well Live (1970) pt. 2, ch. 3 

16.13 Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and Robert Carson 

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Dorothy Parker 1893-1967 

Alan Campbell 1905-1963 

Robert Carson 1910-1983 

A star is born. 


16.14 Ross Parker and Hugh Charles 

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Ross Parker 1914-1974 

Hugh Charles 1907- 

There'll always be an England 

While there's a country lane, 

Wherever there's a cottage small 

Beside a field of grain. 

There'll always be an England (1939 song) 

We'll meet again, don't know where, 

Don't know when, 

But I know we'll meet again some sunny day. 

We'll Meet Again (1939 song) 

16.15 C. Northcote Parkinson 

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1909- 

Expenditure rises to meet income. 

The Law and the Profits (1960) opening sentence

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. 

Parkinson's Law (1958) p. 4 

It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated, it means that 

the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to 

the sum involved. 

Parkinson's Law (1958) "High Finance" 

It is now known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result 

of being unhappily married. 

Parkinson's Law (1958) "Pension Point" 

16.16 'Banjo' Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson) 

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1864-1941 

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, 

Under the shade of a coolibah tree; 

And he sang as he watched and waited till his "Billy" boiled: 

"You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me." 

Waltzing Matilda (1903 song) 

16.17 Alan Paton 

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1903- 

Cry, the beloved country. 


16.18 Norman Vincent Peale 

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1898- 

The power of positive thinking. 


16.19 Charles S. Pearce 

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Keep that schoolgirl complexion. 

Advertising slogan for Palmolive soap, from 1917, in Nigel Rees Slogans 

(1982) p. 113 

16.20 Hesketh Pearson 

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1887-1964 

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. 

A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason 

that he has read too widely. 

Common Misquotations (1934) Introduction 

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for 

titles, except perhaps that of the titled for riches. 

The Pilgrim Daughters (1961) ch. 6

16.21 Lester Pearson 

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1897-1972 

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for 

peace like retarded pygmies. 

Speech in Toronto, 14 Mar. 1955 

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer 

them at all. 

Time 25 Oct. 1971, p. 20 

16.22 Charles P‚guy 

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1873-1914 

Qui ne gueule pas la v‚rit‚, quand il sait la v‚rit‚, se fait le complice 

des menteurs et des faussaires. 

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the 

accomplice of liars and forgers. 

Lettre du Provincial 21 Dec. 1899, in Basic Verities (1943) "Honest 

People" 

La tyrannie est toujours mieux organis‚e que la libert‚. 

Tyranny is always better organised than freedom. 

In Basic Verities (1943) "War and Peace" 

16.23 Vladimir Peniakoff 

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1897-1951 

That night a message came on the wireless for me. It said: "SPREAD ALARM 

AND DESPONDENCY." So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking 

the offensive. The date was, I think, May 18th, 1942. 

Private Army (1950) pt. 2, ch. 5 

16.24 William H. Penn 

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See Albert H. Fitz (6.19) 

16.25 S. J. Perelman 

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1904-1979 

Crazy like a fox. 


I have Bright's disease and he has mine, sobbed the panting palooka. 

Judge 16 Nov. 1929 

16.26 S. J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, and Arthur Sheekman

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S. J. Perelman 1904-1979 

Will B. Johnstone 

Arthur Sheekman 

Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you? 

Monkey Business (1931 film), in The Four Marx Brothers in Monkey Business 

and Duck Soup (1972) p. 18 

Look at me. Worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. 

Monkey Business (1931 film) in, The Four Marx Brothers in Monkey Business 

and Duck Soup (1972) p. 54 

16.27 Carl Perkins 

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1932- 

It's one for the money, 

Two for the show, 

Three to get ready, 

Now go, cat, go! 

But don't you step on my Blue Suede Shoes. 

You can do anything but lay off my Blue Suede Shoes. 

Blue Suede Shoes (1956 song) 

16.28 Frances Perkins 

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1882-1965 

Why not "Madam Secretary," if that form is to be used at all? One is 

accustomed to "madam chairman" ...so it comes more naturally, don't you 

think? 

When asked how she should be addressed as the first US woman cabinet 

member, in New York Times 6 Mar. 1933, p. 14. Cf. Howard Lindsay and 

Russel Crouse 

16.29 Juan Per¢n 

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1895-1974 

If I had not been born Per¢n, I would have liked to be Per¢n. 


16.30 Ted Persons 

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Things ain't what they used to be. 

Title of song (1941; music by Mercer Ellington). Cf. Frank Norman and 

Lionel Bart 

16.31 Henri Philippe P‚tain 

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1856-1951

To write one's memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself. 


16.32 Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull 

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Laurence Peter 1919- 

Raymond Hull 

My analysis...led me to formulate The Peter Principle: In a Hierarchy 

Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence. 

The Peter Principle (1969) ch. 1 

In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent 

to carry out its duties....Work is accomplished by those employees who 

have not yet reached their level of incompetence. 


Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the 

beholder. 


16.33 Kim Philby (Harold Adrian Russell Philby) 

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1912-1988 

To betray, you must first belong. I never belonged. 

In Sunday Times 17 Dec. 1967, p. 2 

16.34 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 

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1921- 

I don't think doing it [killing animals] for money makes it any more 

moral. I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are 

doing the same thing. 

Speech in London, 6 Dec. 1988, comparing participation in blood sports to 

selling slaughtered meat, in The Times 7 Dec. 1988 

I never see any home cooking. All I get is fancy stuff. 


If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed. 

Remark to Edinburgh University students in Peking, 16 Oct. 1986, in The 


Just at this moment we are suffering a national defeat comparable to any 

lost military campaign, and, what is more, it is self-inflicted. I could 

use any one of the several stock phrases or platitudes about this. But 

I prefer one I picked up during the war. It is brief and to the point: 

Gentlemen, I think it is about time we "pulled our fingers out."...If we 

want to be more prosperous we've simply got to get down to it and work for 

it. The rest of the world does not owe us a living. 

Speech in London, 17 Oct. 1961, in Daily Mail 18 Oct. 1961 

We now look upon it [the English-Speaking Union] as including those

countries which use English as an inter-Commonwealth language. I include 

"pidgin-English" in this even though I am referred to in that splendid 

language as "Fella belong Mrs Queen." 

Speech to English-Speaking Union, Ottawa, 29 Oct. 1958, in Prince Philip 

Speaks (1960) pt. 2, ch. 3 

16.35 Morgan Phillips 

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1902-1963 

The Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism. 

In James Callaghan Time and Chance (1987) ch. 1 

16.36 Stephen Phillips 

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1864-1915 

Behold me now 

A man not old, but mellow, like good wine. 

Not over-jealous, yet an eager husband. 

Ulysses (1902) act 3, sc. 2 

16.37 Eden Phillpotts 

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1862-1960 

Now old man's talk o' the days behind me; 

My darter's youngest darter to mind me; 

A little dreamin', a little dyin', 

A little lew corner of airth to lie in. 

Miniatures (1942) "Gaffer's Song" 

16.38 Pablo Picasso 

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1881-1973 

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. 

In John Golding Cubism (1959) p. 60 

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, 

and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. 

Remark to Fran‡oise Gilot in 1944, in Fran‡oise Gilot and Carlton Lake 

Life With Picasso (1964) pt. 1 

Every positive value has its price in negative terms, and you never see 

anything very great which is not, at the same time, horrible in some 

respect. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. 

Remark to Fran‡oise Gilot in 1946, in Fran‡oise Gilot and Carlton Lake 

Life With Picasso (1964) pt. 2 

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize 

truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. 

In Dore Ashton Picasso on Art (1972) "Two statements by Picasso" 

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of 

a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one,

without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people 

have to understand....People who try to explain pictures are usually 

barking up the wrong tree. 

In Dore Ashton Picasso on Art (1972) "Two statements by Picasso" 

16.39 Wilfred Pickles 

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1904- 

Are yer courtin'? 

Catch-phrase in Have a Go! (BBC radio quiz programme, 1946-67) 

Give him the money, Barney. 

Catch-phrase in Have a Go! (BBC radio quiz programme, 1946-67) 

16.40 Harold Pinter 

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1930- 

"But what would you say your plays were about, Mr Pinter?" "The weasel 

under the cocktail cabinet." 

In J. Russell Taylor Anger and After (1962) p. 231 

I said to this monk, here, I said, look here, mister, he opened the door, 

big door, he opened it, look here mister, I said, I showed him these, I 

said, you haven't got a pair of shoes, have you, a pair of shoes, I said, 

enough to help me on my way. Look at these, they're nearly out, I said, 

they're no good to me. I heard you got a stock of shoes here. Piss off, he 

said to me. 

The Caretaker (1960) act 1 

I can't drink Guinness from a thick mug. I only like it out of a thin 

glass. 


If only I could get down to Sidcup! I've been waiting for the weather to 

break. He's got my papers, this man I left them with, it's got it all down 

there, I could prove everything. 


16.41 Luigi Pirandello 

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1867-1936 

Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore. 

Six characters in search of an author. 


Quando i personaggi son vivi, vivi veramente davanti al loro autore, 

questo non fa altro che seguirli nelle parole, nei gesti ch'essi appunto 

gli propongono. 

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does 

nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations 

which they suggest to him. 

Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Six Characters in search of an Author,

1921) in Three Plays (1964) p. 64 

16.42 Armand J. Piron 

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I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate, 

She shivers like the jelly on a plate. 

Shimmy like Kate (1919 song) 

16.43 Robert Pirosh, George Seaton, and George Oppenheimer 

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(Feeling patient's pulse): Either he's dead, or my watch has stopped. 

A Day at the Races (1937 film; line spoken by Groucho Marx) 

Emily, I've a little confession to make. I really am a horse doctor. But 

marry me, and I'll never look at any other horse! 

A Day at the Races (1937 film; lines spoken by Groucho Marx) 

16.44 Robert M. Pirsig 

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1928- 

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. 


16.45 Walter B. Pitkin 

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1878-1953 

Life begins at forty. 


16.46 Ruth Pitter 

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1897- 

I dream 

Already that I hear my lover's voice; 

What music shall I have--what dying wails-- 

The seldom female in a world of males! 

On Cats (1947) "Kitten's Eclogue" 

16.47 Sylvia Plath 

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1932-1963 

Love set you going like a fat gold watch. 

The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry 

Took its place among the elements. 

Ariel (1965) "Morning Song" 

Dying, 

Is an art, like everything else.

I do it exceptionally well. 

Encounter Oct. 1963, "Lady Lazarus" 

Every woman adores a Fascist, 

The boot in the face, the brute 

Brute heart of a brute like you. 

Encounter Oct. 1963, "Daddy" 

16.48 William Plomer 

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1903-1973 

They took the hill (Whose hill? What for?) 

But what a climb they left to do! 

Out of that bungled, unwise war 

An alp of unforgiveness grew. 

Collected Poems (1960) "The Boer War" 

On a sofa upholstered in panther skin 

Mona did researches in original sin. 

Collected Poems (1960) "Mews Flat Mona" 

A rose-red sissy half as old as time. 

The Dorking Thigh (1945) "Playboy of the Demi-World." Cf. Oxford 


A family portrait not too stale to record 

Of a pleasant old buffer, nephew to a lord, 

Who believed that the bank was mightier than the sword, 

And that an umbrella might pacify barbarians abroad: 

Just like an old liberal 

Between the wars. 

The Dorking Thigh (1945) "Father and Son" 

Fissures appeared in football fields 

And houses in the night collapsed. 

The Thames flowed backward to its source, 

The last trickle seen to disappear 

Swiftly, like an adder to its hole, 

And here and there along the river-bed 

The stranded fish gaped among empty tins, 

Face downward lay the huddled suicides 

Like litter that a riot leaves. 

Visiting the Caves (1936) "The Silent Sunday" 

16.49 Henri Poincar‚ 

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1854-1912 

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an 

accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is 

a house. 

Science and Hypothesis (1905) ch. 9 

16.50 Georges Pompidou 

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1911-1974

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the 

nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. 


16.51 Arthur Ponsonby (first Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede) 

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1871-1946 

When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty. 

Kommt der Krieg ins Land 

Gibt Lgen wie Sand. 

[When war enters a country 

It produces lies like sand.] 

Epigraphs to Falsehood in Wartime (1928) p. 11 

16.52 Sir Karl Popper 

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1902- 

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its 

prophets. 

The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) Introduction 

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds 

of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political 

power. This is elevated into the history of the world. 

The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) vol. 2, ch. 25 

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other 

reason than that only freedom can make security secure. 

The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) vol. 2, ch. 21 

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding 

the ends as beyond the province of technology. 

Poverty of Historicism (1957) pt. 3, sect. 21 

For this, indeed, is the true source of our ignorance--the fact that our 

knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be 

infinite. 

Lecture to British Academy, 20 Jan. 1960, in Proceedings of the British 

Academy (1960) vol. 46, p. 69 

16.53 Cole Porter 

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1891-1964 

In olden days a glimpse of stocking 

Was looked on as something shocking 

Now, heaven knows, 

Anything goes. 

Anything Goes (1934 song) 

When they begin the Beguine 

It brings back the sound of music so tender, 

It brings back a night of tropical splendour,

It brings back a memory ever green. 

Begin the Beguine (1935 song) 

Oh, give me land, lots of land 

Under starry skies above 

DON'T FENCE ME IN. 

Don't Fence Me In (1934 song; revived in 1944 film Hollywood Canteen) 

I get no kick from champagne, 

Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, 

So tell me why should it be true 

That I get a kick out of you? 

I Get a Kick Out of You (1934 song) 

I've got you under my skin. 


So goodbye dear, and Amen, 

Here's hoping we meet now and then, 

It was great fun, 

But it was just one of those things. 

Just One of Those Things (1935 song) 

Birds do it, bees do it, 

Even educated fleas do it. 

Let's do it, let's fall in love. 

Let's Do It (1954 song; these words are not in the original 1928 version) 

Miss Otis regrets (she's unable to lunch today). 


My heart belongs to Daddy. 


Night and day, you are the one, 

Only you beneath the moon and under the sun. 

Night and Day (1932 song) 

she: Have you heard it's in the stars, 

Next July we collide with Mars? 

he: Well, did you evah! What a swell party this is. 

Well, Did You Evah? (1956 song) 

Who wants to be a millionaire? 


You're the top. 


16.54 Beatrix Potter 

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1866-1943 

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered 

lappets--when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of 

paduasoy and taffeta--there lived a tailor in Gloucester. 

Tailor of Gloucester (1903) p. 9

The tailor replied--"Simpkin, we shall make our fortune, but I am worn to 

a ravelling. Take this groat (which is our last fourpence) and...with the 

last penny of our fourpence buy me one penn'orth of cherry-coloured silk. 

But do not lose the last penny of the fourpence, Simpkin, or I am undone 

and worn to a thread-paper, for I have NO MORE TWIST." 

Tailor of Gloucester (1903) p. 22 

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is "soporific." 

Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (1909) p. 9 

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names 

were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. 

Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) p. 9 

You may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr 

McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie 

by Mrs McGregor. 

Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) p. 10 

Peter sat down to rest; he was out of breath and trembling with 

fright....After a time he began to wander about, going 

lippity-lippity--not very fast, and looking all round. 

The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) p. 58 

16.55 Gillie Potter (Hugh William Peel) 

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1887-1975 

Good evening, England. This is Gillie Potter speaking to you in English. 

Heard at Hogsnorton (opening words of broadcasts, 6 June 1946 and 11 Nov. 

1947) 

16.56 Stephen Potter 

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1900-1969 

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, 

and vice versa. 

One-Upmanship (1952) ch. 14 

How to be one up--how to make the other man feel that something has gone 

wrong, however slightly. 

Some Notes on Lifemanship (1950) p. 14 

"Yes, but not in the South," with slight adjustments, will do for any 

argument about any place, if not about any person. 

Some Notes on Lifemanship (1950) p. 43 

The theory and practice of gamesmanship or The art of winning games 

without actually cheating. 


16.57 Ezra Pound 

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1885-1972 

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to

atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to 

atrophy when it gets too far from music. 

ABC of Reading (1934) "Warning" 

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends 

on what is there to meet it. 

ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 1 

One of the pleasures of middle age is to find out that one WAS right, and 

that one was much righter than one knew at say 17 or 23. 


Literature is news that STAYS news. 


Real education must ultimately be limited to one who insists on knowing, 

the rest is mere sheep-herding. 


Tching prayed on the mountain and 

wrote make it new 

on his bath tub. 

Day by day make it new 

cut underbrush, 

pile the logs 

keep it growing. 

Cantos (1954) no. 53 

Hang it all, Robert Browning, 

There can be but the one "Sordello." 

Draft of XXX Cantos (1930) no. 2 

And even I can remember 

A day when the historians left blanks in their writings, 

I mean for things they didn't know. 

Draft of XXX Cantos (1930) no. 13 

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost 

possible degree. 

How To Read (1931) pt. 2 

For three years, out of key with his time, 

He strove to resuscitate the dead art 

Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime" 

In the old sense. Wrong from the start-- 

No, hardly, but seeing he had been born 

In a half savage country, out of date. 

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, E. P. Ode pour l'‚lection de son s‚pulcre (1920) 

pt. 1 

His true Penelope was Flaubert, 

He fished by obstinate isles; 

Observed the elegance of Circe's hair 

Rather than the mottoes on sundials. 


pt. 1 

The age demanded an image 

Of its accelerated grimace,

Something for the modern stage, 

Not, at any rate, an Attic grace; 

Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries 

Of the inward gaze; 

Better mendacities 

Than the classics in paraphrase! 


pt. 1 

Christ follows Dionysus 

Phallic and ambrosial 

Made way for macerations; 

Caliban casts out Ariel. 


pt. 1 

There died a myriad, 

And of the best, among them, 

For an old bitch gone in the teeth, 

For a botched civilization. 


pt. 1 

The tip's a good one, as for literature 

It gives no man a sinecure. 

And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. 

And give up verse, my boy, 

There's nothing in it. 


pt. 1 

Poetry must be as well written as prose. 

Letter to Harriet Monroe, Jan. 1915, in D. D. Paige Letters of Ezra Pound 

(1950) p. 48 

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will 

never learn to trust their great artists. 

Literary Essays (1954) "Henry James" 

Winter is icummen in, 

Lhude sing Goddamm, 

Raineth drop and staineth slop, 

And how the wind doth ramm! 

Sing: Goddamm. 

Lustra (1917) "Ancient Music." Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 

(1979) 7:18 

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; 

Petals on a wet, black bough. 

Lustra (1916) "In a Station of the Metro" 

Bah! I have sung women in three cities, 

But it is all the same; 

And I will sing of the sun. 

Personae (1908) "Cino" 

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. 

Pull down thy vanity, it is not man

Made courage, or made order, or made grace, 

Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. 

Learn of the green world what can be thy place 

In scaled invention or true artistry, 

Pull down thy vanity, 

Paquin pull down! 

The green casque has outdone your elegance. 

Pisan Cantos (1948) no. 81 

Pull down thy vanity 

Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail, 

A swollen magpie in a fitful sun, 

Half black half white 

Nor knowst'ou wing from tail 

Pull down thy vanity. 

Pisan Cantos (1948) no. 81 

16.58 Anthony Powell 

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1905- 

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which 

he has always remained faithful. 

Acceptance World (1955) ch. 1 

Self-love seems so often unrequited. 


Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed "only two dramatic features--the 

wine was a farce and the food a tragedy." 


Books do furnish a room. 


Parents--especially step-parents--are sometimes a bit of a disappointment 

to their children. They don't fufil the promise of their early years. 

A Buyer's Market (1952) ch. 2 

A dance to the music of time. 

Title of a novel sequence (1951-75), after title given by Giovanni Pietro 

Bellori to a painting by Nicolas Poussin, Le 4 stagioni che ballano al 

suono del tempo 

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't 

committed. 

Temporary Kings (1973) ch. 1 

16.59 Enoch Powell 

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1912- 

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy 

juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of 

human affairs. 

Joseph Chamberlain (1977) epilogue 

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 19 Oct. 1967, in The Times 

20 Oct. 1967 

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to 

see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood." 

Speech at Annual Meeting of West Midlands Area Conservative Political 

Centre, Birmingham, 20 Apr. 1968, in Observer 21 Apr. 1968 

16.60 Sandy Powell 

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1900-1982 

Can you hear me, mother? 

Catch-phrase: see Can You Hear Me, Mother? Sandy Powell's Lifetime of 

Music-Hall (1975) p. 62 

16.61 Vince Powell and Harry Driver 

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Never mind the quality, feel the width. 

Title of ITV comedy series, 1967-9 

16.62 Jacques Pr‚vert 

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1900-1977 

C'est tellement simple, l' amour. 

Love is so simple. 

Les Enfants du Paradis (1945 film) 

Notre PŠre qui ˆtes aux cieux 

Restez-y 

Et nous nous resterons sur la terre 

Qui est quelquefois si jolie. 

Our Father which art in heaven 

Stay there 

And we will stay on earth 

Which is sometimes so pretty. 

Paroles (revised ed., 1949) "Pater Noster" 

16.63 J. B. Priestley 

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1894-1984 

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings 

kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet 

is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC 

offered you Conflict and Art. 

Good Companions (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1 

An inspector calls. 


This little steamer, like all her brave and battered sisters, is immortal.

She'll go sailing proudly down the years in the epic of Dunkirk. And our 

great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching 

glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the 

little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious. 

Radio broadcast, 5 June 1940, in Listener 13 June 1940 

God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He 

doesn't exist. 

In Listener 1 July 1965, p. 12 

It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins. 

In New Statesman 20 July 1962, p. 78 

16.64 V. S. Pritchett 

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1900- 

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all 

the great best-sellers. 

The Living Novel (1946) "Clarissa" 

What Chekhov saw in our failure to communicate was something positive and 

precious: the private silence in which we live, and which enables us to 

endure our own solitude. We live, as his characters do, beyond any tale 

we happen to enact. 

Myth Makers (1979) "Chekhov, a doctor" 

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, 

the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with 

the life it pretends to build on. 

New Statesman 16 June 1951, "Books in General" 

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1871-1922 

A la recherche du temps perdu. 

In search of lost time. 

Title of novel (1913-27), translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff and S. 

Hudson, 1922-31, as "Remembrance of things past" 

Longtemps, je me suis couch‚ de bonne heure. 

For a long time I used to go to bed early. 

Du c“t‚ de chez Swann (Swann's Way, 1913, translated 1922 by C. K. 

Scott-Moncrieff, vol. 1, p. 1) 

Je portai … mes lŠvres une cuiller‚e du th‚ o— j'avais laiss‚ s'amollir un 

morceau de madeleine....Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce 

go–t c'‚tait celui du petit morceau de madeleine que le dimanche matin … 

Combray...ma tante L‚onie m'offrait aprŠs l'avoir tremp‚ dans son infusion 

de th‚ ou de tilleul. 

I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel 

of cake....And suddenly the memory returns. The taste was that of the 

little crumb of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray...my aunt 

L‚onie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of real or of

lime-flower tea. 


Scott-Moncrieff, vol. 1, pp. 46 and 61) 

Et il ne fut plus question de Swann chez les Verdurin. 

After which there was no more talk of Swann at the Verdurins'. 



Dire que j'ai gƒch‚ des ann‚es de ma vie, que j'ai voulu mourir, que j'ai 

eu mon plus grand amour, pour une femme qui ne me plaisait pas, qui 

n'‚tait pas mon genre! 

To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for 

death, that the greatest love that I have ever known has been for a woman 

who did not please me, who was not in my style! 



On devient moral dŠs qu'on est malheureux. 

As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral. 

A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (Within a Budding Grove, 1918, 

translated 1924 by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, vol. 1, p. 290) 

Tout ce que nous connaissons de grand nous vient des nerveux. Ce sont eux 

et non pas d'autres qui ont fond‚ les religions et compos‚ les 

chefs-d'”uvre. Jamais le monde ne saura tout ce qu'il leur doit et surtout 

ce qu'eux ont souffert pour le lui donner. 

All the greatest things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is 

they and they only who have founded religions and created great works of 

art. Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor 

above all of what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it. 

Le c“t‚ de Guermantes (Guermantes Way, 1921, translated 1925 by C. K. 


Il n'y a rien comme le d‚sir pour empˆcher les choses qu'on dit d'avoir 

aucune ressemblance avec ce qu'on a dans la pens‚e. 

There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from 

bearing any resemblance to what one has in mind. 



Un artiste n'a pas besoin d'exprimer directement sa pens‚e dans son 

ouvrage pour que celui-ci en reflŠte la qualit‚; on a mˆme pu dire que la 

louange la plus haute de Dieu est dans la n‚gation de l'ath‚e qui trouve 

la Cr‚ation assez parfaite pour se passer d'un cr‚ateur. 

An artist has no need to express his mind directly in his work for it to 

express the quality of that mind; it has indeed been said that the highest 

praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds 

creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator. 



Du reste, continua Mme de Cambremer, j'ai horreur des couchers de soleil, 

c'est romantique, c'est op‚ra.

"Anyhow," Mme de Cambremer went on, "I have a horror of sunsets, they're 

so romantic, so operatic." 

Sodome et Gomorrhe (Cities of the Plain, 1922, translated by C. K. 


Une de ces d‚pˆches dont M. de Guermantes avait spirituellement fix‚ le 

modŠle: "Impossible venir, mensonge suit." 

One of those telegrams of which the model had been wittily invented by M. 

de Guermantes: "Impossible to come, lie follows." 

Le temps retrouv‚ (Time Regained, 1926, translated 1931 by S. Hudson, 

ch. 1, p. 7). Cf. Lord Charles Beresford 

Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus. 

The true paradises are paradises we have lost. 


ch. 3, p. 215) 

Le bonheur seul est salutaire pour le corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui 

d‚veloppe les forces de l'esprit. 

Happiness is salutary for the body but sorrow develops the powers of the 

spirit. 


ch. 3, p. 259) 

16.66 Olive Higgins Prouty 

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1882-1974 

She [Charlotte] drew in her breath sharply as if he had touched a nerve. 

"O Jerry," she said when she could trust her voice. "Don't let's ask for 

the moon! We have the stars!" 

THE END 

Now, Voyager (1941) ch. 29 (words spoken by Bette Davis in the 1942 film 

version) 

16.67 John Pudney 

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1909-1977 

Do not despair 

For Johnny-head-in-air; 

He sleeps as sound 

As Johnny underground. 

Fetch out no shroud 

For Johnny-in-the-cloud; 

And keep your tears 

For him in after years. 

Better by far 

For Johnny-the-bright-star, 

To keep your head,

And see his children fed. 

Dispersal Point (1942) "For Johnny" 

16.68 Mario Puzo 

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1920- 

He's a businessman....I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. 

The Godfather (1969) ch. 1 

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. 

The Godfather (1969) ch. 1 

Mario had called George Mandel to say he'd heard Joe [Heller] was 

paralysed. "No, Mario....He's got something called Guillain-Barr‚." "My 

God," Mario blurted out. "That's terrible!" A surprised George murmured, 

"Hey Mario, you know about Guillain-Barr‚?" "No, I never heard nothing 

about it," Mario replied. "But when they name any disease after two guys, 

it's got to be terrible!" 

Joseph Heller No Laughing Matter (1986) p. 44 

17.0 Q 

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17.1 Q 

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See Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (17.4) 

17.2 Salvatore Quasimodo 

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1901-1968 

Poetry...is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be 

interior and personal--which the reader recognizes as his own. 

Speech in New York, 13 May 1960, in New York Times 14 May 1960, p. 47 

17.3 Peter Quennell 

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1905- 

He [Andr‚ Gide] was very bald...with...the general look of an elderly 

fallen angel travelling incognito. 

The Sign of the Fish (1960) ch. 2 

17.4 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (often used the pseudonym 'Q') 

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1863-1944 

Literature is not an abstract science, to which exact definitions can be 

applied. It is an Art rather, the success of which depends on personal 

persuasiveness, on the author's skill to give as on ours to receive. 

Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge University, 1913, in On the Art of Writing

(1916) p. 16 

The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so. 

Oxford Book of English Verse (1900) preface 

Know you her secret none can utter? 

Hers of the Book, the tripled Crown? 

Poems (1929) "Alma Mater" 

He that loves but half of Earth 

Loves but half enough for me. 

Poems and Ballads (1896) "The Comrade" 

Not as we wanted it, 

But as God granted it. 

Poems and Ballads (1896) "To Bearers" 

18.0 R 

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18.1 James Rado and Gerome Ragni 

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James Rado 1939- 

Gerome Ragni 1942- 

When the moon is in the seventh house, 

And Jupiter aligns with Mars, 

Then peace will guide the planets, 

And love will steer the stars; 

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, 

The age of Aquarius. 

Aquarius (1967 song; music by Galt MacDermot) 

18.2 John Rae 

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1931- 

War is, after all, the universal perversion. We are all tainted: if we 

cannot experience our perversion at first hand we spend our time reading 

war stories, the pornography of war; or seeing war films, the blue films 

of war; or titillating our senses with the imagination of great deeds, the 

masturbation of war. 

The Custard Boys (1960) ch. 13 

18.3 Milton Rakove 

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1918-1983 

The second law, Rakove's law of principle and politics, states that the 

citizen is influenced by principle in direct proportion to his distance 

from the political situation. 

In Virginia Quarterly Review (1965) vol. 41, p. 349 

18.4 Sir Walter Raleigh

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1861-1922 

In Examinations those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who 

cannot tell. 

Laughter from a Cloud (1923) "Some Thoughts on Examinations" 

We could not lead a pleasant life, 

And 'twould be finished soon, 

If peas were eaten with the knife, 

And gravy with the spoon. 

Eat slowly: only men in rags 

And gluttons old in sin 

Mistake themselves for carpet bags 

And tumble victuals in. 

Laughter from a Cloud (1923) "Stans Puer ad Mensam" 

I wish I loved the Human Race; 

I wish I loved its silly face; 

I wish I liked the way it walks; 

I wish I liked the way it talks; 

And when I'm introduced to one 

I wish I thought What Jolly Fun! 

Laughter from a Cloud (1923) "Wishes of an Elderly Man" 

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake. 

Letter to Mrs Robert Bridges, 15 Jan. 1915, in Letters of Sir Walter 

Raleigh (1926) vol. 2, p. 411 

18.5 Srinivasa Ramanujan 

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1887-1920 

I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had 

ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number (7.13.19) seemed 

to me rather a dull one. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting 

number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two 

different ways." 

G. H. Hardy in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 26 May 1921, 

p. 57. (The two ways are 1 cubed +12 cubed and 9 cubed +10 cubed) 

18.6 John Crowe Ransom 

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1888-1974 

Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree. 

Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills, 

The delight of her husband, her aunts, an infant of three, 

And of medicos marvelling sweetly on her ills. 

Chills and Fever (1924) "Here Lies a Lady" 

18.7 Arthur Ransome 

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1884-1967 

Mother smiled, and read the telegram aloud: Better drowned than duffers if

not duffers wont drown. "Does that mean Yes?" asked Roger. "I think so." 

Swallows and Amazons (1930) ch. 1 

18.8 Frederic Raphael 

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1931- 

He glanced with disdain at the big centre table where the famous faces of 

the Cambridge theatre were eating a loud meal. "So this is the city of 

dreaming spires," Sheila said. "Theoretically speaking that's Oxford," 

Adam said. "This is the city of perspiring dreams." 

Glittering Prizes: (1976) ch. 3. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 

(1979) 15:4 

18.9 Terence Rattigan 

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1911-1977 

The headmaster said you ruled them with a rod of iron. He called you the 

Himmler of the lower fifth. 

The Browning Version (1948) (spoken by Peter Gilbert to Andrew 

Crocker-Harris) 

Let us invent a character, a nice respectable, middle-class, middle-aged, 

maiden lady, with time on her hands and the money to help her pass it. She 

enjoys pictures, books, music, and the theatre and though to none of these 

arts (or rather, for consistency's sake, to none of these three arts and 

the one craft) does she bring much knowledge or discernment, at least, as 

she is apt to tell her cronies, she "does know what she likes." Let us 

call her Aunt Edna....Aunt Edna is universal, and to those who may feel 

that all the problems of the modern theatre might be solved by her 

liquidation, let me add that I have no doubt at all that she is also 

immortal. 

Collected Plays (1953) vol. 2, preface 

Kenneth: If you're so hot, you'd better tell me how to say she has 

ideas above her station. 

Brian: Oh, yes, I forgot. It's fairly easy, old boy. Elle a des id‚es 

au-dessus de sa gare. 

Kenneth: You can't do it like that. You can't say au-dessus de sa gare. 

It isn't that sort of station. 

French without Tears (1937) act 1 

Do you know what "le vice Anglais"--the English vice--really is? Not 

flagellation, not pederasty--whatever the French believe it to be. It's 

our refusal to admit our emotions. We think they demean us, I suppose. 

In Praise of Love (1973) act 2 

You can be in the Horseguards and still be common, dear. 

Separate Tables (1954) "Table Number Seven" sc. 1 

18.10 Gwen Raverat 

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1885-1957 

I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves. Aunt 

Etty was most emphatically such a person.

Period Piece (1952) ch. 7 

18.11 Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank 

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The long hot summer. 

Title of film (1958), based on stories by William Faulkner 

18.12 Ted Ray (Charles Olden) 

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1906-1977 

Ee, it was agony, Ivy. 

Catch-phrase in Ray's a Laugh (BBC radio programme, 1949-61) 

He's loo-vely, Mrs Hoskin...he's loo...ooo...vely! 

Catch-phrase in Ray's a Laugh (BBC radio programme, 1949-61) in Raising 

the Laughs (1952) p. 158 

18.13 Sam Rayburn 

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1882-1961 

If you want to get along, go along. 

In Neil MacNeil Forge of Democracy (1963) ch. 6 

18.14 Sir Herbert Read 

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1893-1968 

Do not judge this movement kindly. It is not just another amusing stunt. 

It is defiant--the desperate act of men too profoundly convinced of the 

rottenness of our civilization to want to save a shred of its 

respectability. 

Introduction to International Surrealist Exhibition Catalogue, New 

Burlington Galleries, London, 11 June--4 July 1936 

I saw him stab 

And stab again 

A well-killed Boche. 

This is the happy warrior, 

This is he.... 

Naked Warriors (1919) "The Scene of War, 4. The Happy Warrior" 

18.15 Nancy Reagan 

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1923- 

A woman is like a teabag--only in hot water do you realise how strong she 

is. 


18.16 Ronald Reagan 

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1911- 

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating 

jellybeans. 

In New York Times 15 Jan. 1981 

So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to 

beware the temptation of pride--the temptation blithely to declare 

yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore 

the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to 

simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove 

yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil. 

Speech to National Association of Evangelicals, 8 Mar. 1983, in New York 

Times 9 Mar. 1983 

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation 

which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. 

Said during radio microphone test, 11 Aug. 1984, in New York Times 13 Aug. 

1984 

We are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states 

run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid 

criminals since the advent of the Third Reich. 

Speech following the hi-jack of a US plane, 8 July 1985, in New York Times 

9 July 1985 

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world 

revolution, Muslim fundamentalist revolution, which is targeted on many of 

his own Arab compatriots and where we figure in that I don't know. 

Said of Col. Gadaffi of Libya at press conference, 9 Apr. 1986, in New 

York Times 10 Apr. 1986, p. A 22 

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to 

realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. 

At a conference in Los Angeles, 2 Mar. 1977, in Bill Adler Reagan Wit 

(1981) ch. 5 

18.17 Erell Reaves 

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Lady of Spain, I adore you. 

Right from the night I first saw you, 

My heart has been yearning for you, 

What else could any heart do? 

Lady of Spain (1931 song; music by Tolchard Evans) 

18.18 Henry Reed 

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1914-1986 

Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday, 

We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, 

We shall have what to do after firing. But today, 

Today we have naming of parts. Japonica 

Glistens like coral in all of the neighbour gardens, 

And today we have naming of parts. 

A Map of Verona (1946) "Lessons of the War: 1, Naming of Parts"

They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy 

If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt, 

And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance, 

Which in our case we have not got; and the almond blossom 

Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards, 

For today we have naming of parts. 

A Map of Verona (1946) "Lessons of the War: 1, Naming of Parts" 

And the various holds and rolls and throws and breakfalls 

Somehow or other I always seemed to put 

In the wrong place. And as for war, my wars 

Were global from the start. 

A Map of Verona (1946) "Lessons of the War: 3, Unarmed Combat" 

As we get older we do not get any younger. 

Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, 

And this time last year I was fifty-four, 

And this time next year I shall be sixty-two. 

A Map of Verona (1946) "Chard Whitlow (Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening 

Postscript)" 

It is, we believe, 

Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump 

Can extinguish hell. 

A Map of Verona (1946) "Chard Whitlow (Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening 

Postscript)" 

And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the 

gin, eh? 

Private Life of Hilda Tablet (1954 radio play) in Hilda Tablet and 

Others: four pieces for radio (1971) p. 60 

Duchess: Of course we've all dreamed of reviving the castrati; but it's 

needed Hilda to take the first practical steps towards making them 

a reality. 

Reeves: P-practical steps? 

Duchess: Yes, thank God. She's drawn up a list of well-known singers 

who she thinks would benefit from...treatment. Some of them have been 

singing baritone, or even bass, for years. It's only a question of getting 

them to agree. 

Private Life of Hilda Tablet (1954 radio play) in Hilda Tablet and 

Others: four pieces for radio (1971) p. 72 

18.19 John Reed 

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1887-1920 

Ten days that shook the world. 


18.20 Max Reger 

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1873-1916 

Ich sitze in dem kleinsten Zimmer in meinem Hause. Ich habe Ihre Kritik 

vor mir. Im n„chsten Augenblick wird sie hinter mir sein.

I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before 

me. In a moment it will be behind me. 

Letter to Munich critic Rudolph Louis in response to his review in 

Mnchener Neueste Nachrichten, 7 Feb. 1906, in Nicolas Slonimsky Lexicon 

of Musical Invective (1953) p. 139 

18.21 Charles A. Reich 

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1928- 

The greening of America. 


18.22 Keith Reid and Gary Brooker 

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A whiter shade of pale. 

Title of song (1967) (performed by Procol Harum) 

18.23 Erich Maria Remarque 

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1898-1970 

All quiet on the western front. 

Title of translation of his novel Im Westen nichts Neues (Nothing New in 

the West, 1929). Cf. the title of a poem by Ethel L. Beers: All Quiet 

along the Potomac (1861) 

18.24 Dr Montague John Rendall 

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1862-1950 

Nation shall speak peace unto nation. 

Motto of the BBC, adapted from Micah 4:3 "Nation shall not lift up sword 

against nation" 

18.25 James Reston 

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1909- 

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and 

will not always conform to our whim. 


All politics, however, are based on the indifference of the majority. 


18.26 David Reuben 

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1933- 

Everything you always wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask. 

Title of book (1969)

18.27 Charles Revson 

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1906-1975 

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope. 

In A. Tobias Fire and Ice (1976) ch. 8 

18.28 Malvina Reynolds 

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1900-1978 

Little boxes on the hillside, 

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, 

Little boxes on the hillside, 

Little boxes all the same; 

There's a green one and a pink one 

And a blue one and a yellow one 

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky 

And they all look just the same. 

Little Boxes (1962 song) 

18.29 Quentin Reynolds 

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1902-1965 

There is an old political adage which says "If you can't lick 'em, jine 

'em." 

Wounded Don't Cry (1941) ch. 1 

18.30 Cecil Rhodes 

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1853-1902 

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety-nine out of 

a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen. 

In Gordon Le Sueur Cecil Rhodes (1913) p. 40 

Rhodes chose this time [in December 1896] to awaken his friend Albert Grey 

from his sleep one night in Bulawayo to ask him whether he had ever 

considered how fortunate he was to be alive and in good health and to have 

been born an Englishman, when so many millions of other human beings had 

no such luck. 

J. G. Lockhart and C. M. Woodhouse Rhodes (1963) p. 29 

So little done, so much to do. 

Said to Lewis Michell on the day he died, in Lewis Michell Life of Rhodes 

(1910) vol. 2, ch. 39 

18.31 Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams) 

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?1890-1979 

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing 

still. Like when they say "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever 

shall be, world without end."

Voyage in the Dark (1934) ch. 4, pt. 1 

18.32 Grantland Rice 

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1880-1954 

All wars are planned by old men 

In council rooms apart. 

The Final Answer (1955) "The Two Sides of War" 

Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In 

dramatic lore they were known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and 

Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, 

Crowley, and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone 

before which another fighting Army football team was swept over the 

precipice at the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon as 55,000 spectators 

peered down on the bewildering panorama spread on the green below. 

Report of football match on 18 Oct. 1924 between US Military Academy at 

West Point NY and University of Notre Dame, in New York Tribune 19 Oct. 

1924 

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, 

He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game. 

Only the Brave (1941) "Alumnus Football" 

18.33 Tim Rice 

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1944- 

Don't cry for me Argentina. 

Title of song (1976; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber) 

Prove to me that you're no fool 

Walk across my swimming pool. 

Herod's Song (1970; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber) 

18.34 Mandy Rice-Davies 

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1944- 

Mr Burge: Do you know Lord Astor has made a statement to the police 

saying that these allegations of yours are absolutely untrue? 

Mandy Rice-Davies: He would, wouldn't he? (Laughter). 

At the trial of Stephen Ward, 29 June 1963, in Guardian 1 July 1963 

An American tourist, seeing me the centre of a crowd, came up to me. 

"Hello, my dear, may I have your autograph. And would you mind telling me 

who you are?" I hated having to say my name. For years Mandy Rice-Davies 

was such an embarrassment to me. It is only in recent times I have been 

able to say my name without a quiver of discomfort. "Call me Lady 

Hamilton," I said. 

Mandy (1980) ch. 16 

18.35 Dicky Richards 

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My Goodness, My Guinness. 

Advertising slogan (1935) in B. Sibley Book of Guinness Advertising (1985) 

p. 83 

18.36 Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton) 

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1876-1961 

My postal-order hasn't come yet. 

Magnet (1908) vol. 1, no. 2 "The Taming of Harry" 

Hazeldene looked from one to the other--from the well-set-up, athletic 

Lancashire lad, to the fat greedy owl of the Remove, and burst into 

a laugh. 

Magnet (1909) vol. 3, no. 72 "The Greyfriars Photographer" 

"I--I say, you fellows--" 

"Shut up, Bunter." 

"But--but I say--" 

"Keep that cush over his chivvy." 

"I--I say--groo--groo--yarooh!" 

And Bunter's remarks again tailed off under the cushion. 

Magnet (1909) vol. 3, no. 85 "The Greyfriars Visitors" 

18.37 I. A. Richards 

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1893-1979 

It is very probable that the Hindenburg Line to which the defence of our 

traditions retired as a result of the onslaughts of the last century will 

be blown up in the near future. If this should happen a mental chaos such 

as man has never experienced may be expected. We shall then be thrown 

back...upon poetry. It is capable of saving us; it is a perfectly possible 

means of overcoming chaos. 

Science and Poetry (1926) ch. 7 

18.38 Sir Ralph Richardson 

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1902-1983 

"Acting," Ralph Richardson of the Old Vic pronounced last week, "is merely 

the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing." 

New York Herald Tribune 19 May 1946, pt. 5, p. 1 

18.39 Hans Richter 

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1843-1916 

Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by 

God, Never. 

In Hansard 13 Feb. 1958, col. 574 

18.40 Rainer Maria Rilke 

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1875-1926

Kunst-Werke sind von einer unendlichen Einsamkeit und mit nichts so wenig 

erreichbar als mit Kritik. Nur Liebe kann sie erfassen und halten und kann 

gerecht sein gegen sie. 

Works of art are of an infinite solitariness, and nothing is less likely 

to bring us near to them than criticism. Only love can apprehend and hold 

them, and can be just towards them. 

Briefe an einem jungen Dichter (Letters to a Young Poet, 1929, translated 

by Reginald Snell, 1945) 23 Apr. 1903 

Und diese menschlichere Liebe (die unendlich rcksichtsvoll und leise, und 

gut und klar in Binden und L”sen sich vollziehen wird) wird jener „hneln, 

die wir ringend und mhsam vorbereiten, der Liebe, die darin besteht, dass 

zwei Einsamkeiten einander schtzen, grenzen und grssen. 

And this more human love (which will consummate itself infinitely 

thoughtfully and gently, and well and clearly in binding and loosing) will 

be something like that which we are preparing with struggle and toil, the 

love which consists in the mutual guarding, bordering and saluting of two 

solitudes. 

Briefe an einem jungen Dichter (Letters to a Young Poet, 1929, translated 

by Reginald Snell, 1945) 14 May 1904 

Wer hat uns also umgedreht, dass wir, 

was wir auch tun, in jener Haltung sind 

von einem, welcher fortgeht? Wie er auf 

den letzten Hgel, der ihm ganz sein Tal 

noch einmal zeigt, sich wendet, anh„lt, weilt--, 

so leben wir und nehmen immer Abschied. 

Who's turned us around like this, so that we always, 

do what we may, retain the attitude 

of someone who's departing? Just as he, 

on the last hill, that shows him all his valley 

for the last time, will turn and stop and linger, 

we live our lives, for ever taking leave. 

Duineser Elegien (Duino Elegies, translated by J. B. Leishman and Stephen 

Spender, 1948) no. 8 

Ich fr die h”chste Aufgabe einer Verbindung zweier Menschen diese halte: 

dass einer dem andern seine Einsamkeit bewache. 

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that 

each protects the solitude of the other. 

Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker, 12 Feb. 1902, in Gesammelte Briefe 

(Collected Letters, 1904) vol. 1, p. 204 

18.41 Hal Riney 

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1932- 

It's morning again in America. 

Slogan for Ronald Reagan's election campaign, 1984, in Newsweek 6 Aug. 

1984 

18.42 Robert L. Ripley 

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1893-1949 

Believe it or not. 

Title of syndicated newspaper feature (from 1918) 

18.43 C‚sar Ritz 

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1850-1918 

Le client n'a jamais tort. 

The customer is never wrong. 

In R. Nevill and C. E. Jerningham Piccadilly to Pall Mall (1908) p. 94 

18.44 Joan Riviere 

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1883- 

Civilization and its discontents. 

Title of translation of Sigmund Freud's Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (1930) 

18.45 Lord Robbins (Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins) 

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1898-1984 

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship 

between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. 

Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (1932) ch. 1, 

sect. 3 

18.46 Leo Robin 

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1900- 

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. 


18.47 Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger 

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Leo Robin 1900- 

Ralph Rainger 

Thanks for the memory. 


18.48 Edwin Arlington Robinson 

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1869-1935 

So on we worked, and waited for the light, 

And went without meat, and cursed the bread; 

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, 

Went home and put a bullet through his head.

Children of the Night (1897) "Richard Cory" 

I shall have more to say when I am dead. 

The Three Taverns (1920) "John Brown" (last line) 

Miniver loved the Medici, 

Albeit he had never seen one; 

He would have sinned incessantly 

Could he have been one. 

The Town down the River (1910) "Miniver Cheevy" 

18.49 Rt. Rev John Robinson (Bishop of Woolwich) 

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1919-1983 

What Lawrence is trying to do, I think, is to portray the sex relation as 

something sacred....I think Lawrence tried to portray this relation as in 

a real sense an act of holy communion. For him flesh was sacramental of 

the spirit. 

Said as defence witness in case brought against Penguin Books for 

publishing Lady Chatterley's Lover, 27 Oct. 1960, in The Times 28 Oct. 

1960 

18.50 John D. Rockefeller 

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1839-1937 

The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest....The 

American beauty rose can be produced in the splendour and fragrance which 

bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow 

up around it. 

In W. J. Ghent Our Benevolent Feudalism (1902) p. 29 

18.51 Knute Rockne 

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1888-1931 

See Joseph P. Kennedy (11.19) 

18.52 Cecil Rodd 

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Stop me and buy one. 

Advertising slogan for Wall's ice cream (from spring 1922) in Wall's 

Magazine Summer 1957, p. 33 

18.53 Gene Roddenberry 

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1921- 

Space--the final frontier....These are the voyages of the starship 

Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek 

out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone 

before. 

Introduction to Star Trek (television series) 1966 onwards, in James A.

Lely Star Trek (1979) p. 32 

Beam us up, Mr Scott. 

Star Trek (television series 1966 onwards) "Gamesters of Triskelion" 

(often quoted as the catch-phrase "Beam me up, Scotty ," which was not 

actually used in the series) 

18.54 Theodore Roethke 

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1908-1963 

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. 

I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. 

I learn by going where I have to go. 

The Waking (1953) p. 120 

18.55 Will Rogers 

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1879-1935 

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education. 

Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949) ch. 6 

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit 

that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks 

the best. 

Illiterate Digest (1924) "Breaking into the Writing Game" 

The Income Tax has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf 

has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's 

through if you are a Crook or a Martyr. 

Illiterate Digest (1924) "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes" 

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. 

Illiterate Digest (1924) "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince" 

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. 

New York Times 30 Sept. 1923 

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. 

In New York Times 31 Aug. 1924 

You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they 

kill you in a new way. 

New York Times 23 Dec. 1929 

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we 

have rushed through life trying to save. 

Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930 

I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have 

found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man 

that I didn't like. 

In Saturday Evening Post 6 Nov. 1926 

I don't make jokes--I just watch the government and report the facts. 

In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. 

Weekly Articles (1981) vol. 3, p. 93 (first pubd. 1927) 

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. 

Newspaper article, 15 Feb. 1925, in Paula McSpadden Grove The Will Rogers 

Book (1961) p. 193 

18.56 Frederick William Rolfe ('Baron Corvo') 

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1860-1913 

"There is no Holiness here," George interrupted, in that cold, white, 

candent voice which was more caustic than silver nitrate and more 

thrilling than a scream. 

Hadrian VII (1904) ch. 21 

Pray for the repose of His soul. He was so tired. 

Hadrian VII (1904) ch. 24 

18.57 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli 

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See Pope John XXIII (10.16) 

18.58 Eleanor Roosevelt 

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1884-1962 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. 

In Catholic Digest Aug. 1960, p. 102 

18.59 Franklin D. Roosevelt 

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1882-1945 

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. 

Cable to Winston Churchill, replying to congratulations on Roosevelt's 

60th birthday, in W. S. Churchill Hinge of Fate (1950) ch. 4 

These unhappy times call for the building of plans that...build from the 

bottom up...that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the 

bottom of the economic pyramid. 

Radio address, 7 Apr. 1932, in Public Papers (1938) vol. 1, p. 625 

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Let 

us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of 

competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is 

a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in 

this crusade to restore America to its own people. 

Speech to Democratic Convention in Chicago, 2 July 1932, accepting 

nomination for presidency, in Public Papers (1938) vol. 1, p. 647 

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to 

fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which 

paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. 

Inaugural address, 4 Mar. 1933, in Public Papers (1938) vol. 2, p. 11

In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of 

the good neighbour. 

Inaugural address, 4 Mar. 1933, in Public Papers (1938) vol. 2, p. 14 

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood 

running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. 

I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 

200 limping, exhausted men come out of line--the survivors of a regiment 

of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children 

starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. 

Speech at Chautauqua, NY, 14 Aug. 1936, in Public Papers (1936) vol. 5, 

p. 289 

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. 

Second inaugural address, 20 Jan. 1937, in Public Papers (1941) vol. 6, 

p. 5 

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere 

is in danger. 

"Fireside Chat" radio broadcast, 3 Sept. 1939, in Public Papers (1941) 

vol. 8, p. 461 

I am reminded of four definitions: A Radical is a man with both feet 

firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly 

good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary 

is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs 

and his hands at the behest--at the command--of his head. 

Radio address to New York Herald Tribune Forum, 26 Oct. 1939, in Public 

Papers (1941) vol. 8, p. 556 

And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more 

assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and 

again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. 

Speech in Boston, 30 Oct. 1940, in Public Papers (1941) vol. 9, p. 517 

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will. We must 

be the great arsenal of democracy. 

"Fireside Chat" radio broadcast, 29 Dec. 1940, in Public Papers (1941) 

vol. 9, p. 643 

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to 

a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom 

of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom 

of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. 

The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means 

economic understanding which will secure to every nation a healthy 

peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is 

freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide 

reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that 

no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression 

against any neighbour--anywhere in the world. 

Message to Congress, 6 Jan. 1941, in Public Papers (1941) vol. 9, p. 672 

Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live on in infamy--the 

United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval 

and air forces of the Empire of Japan. 

Address to Congress, 8 Dec. 1941, in Public Papers (1950) vol. 10, p. 514 

The work, my friend, is peace. More than an end of this war--an end to the

eginnings of all wars. Yes, an end forever to this impractical, 

unrealistic settlement of the differences between governments by the mass 

killings of peoples. 

Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, 13 Apr. 1945 (the day after 

Roosevelt died) in Public Papers (1950) vol. 13, p. 615 

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. 

Let us move forward with strong and active faith. 

Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, 13 Apr. 1945, final lines, in 

Public Papers (1950) vol. 13, p. 616 

We all know that books burn--yet we have the greater knowledge that books 

can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no 

force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in 

a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world 

the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind. 

In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your 

dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom. 

"Message to the Booksellers of America" read at banquet, 6 May 1942, in 

Publisher's Weekly 9 May 1942 

18.60 Theodore Roosevelt 

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1858-1919 

The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he 

shall be able and willing to pull his weight. 

Speech in New York, 11 Nov. 1902, in Addresses and Presidential Messages 

1902-4 (1904) p. 85 

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough 

to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled 

to, and less than that no man shall have. 

Speech at the Lincoln Monument, Springfield, Illinois, 4 June 1903, in 

Addresses and Presidential Messages 1902-4 (1904) p. 224 

[William] McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate ‚clair! 

In H. T. Peck Twenty Years of the Republic (1906) p. 642 

There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big 

stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet 

build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient 

navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. 

Speech at Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903, in New York Times 4 Apr. 1903 

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room 

here for only 100 per cent. Americanism, only for those who are Americans 

and nothing else. 

Speech in Saratoga, 19 July 1918, in Roosevelt Policy (1919) vol. 3, 

p. 1079 

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of 

the strenuous life. 

Speech to the Hamilton Club, Chicago, 10 Apr. 1899, in Works, Memorial 

edition (1925), vol. 15, p. 267 

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. 

In Works, Memorial edition (1925) vol. 15, p. 388 "Latitude and Longitude 

among Reformers"

The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of 

society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. 

Speech in Washington, 14 Apr. 1906, in Works, Memorial edition (1925) 

vol. 18, p. 574 

A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of 

the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German 

or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter 

of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the 

United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other 

allegiance. 

Speech in New York, 12 Oct. 1915, in Works, Memorial edition (1925) 

vol. 20, p. 457 

There are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and 

always discrediting it--the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform 

movements. 

Autobiography (1913) ch. 7, in Works, Memorial edition (1925) vol. 22, 

p. 247 

I wish in this campaign to do...whatever is likely to produce the best 

results for the Republican ticket. I am as strong as a bull moose and you 

can use me to the limit. 

Letter to Mark Hanna, 27 June 1900, in Works, Memorial edition (1926) 

vol. 23, p. 162 ("Bull Moose" became the popular name of the Progressive 

Party) 

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called 

"weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the 

egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another, there is nothing left of 

the other. 

Speech in St Louis, 31 May 1916, in Works, Memorial edition (1926) 

vol. 24, p. 483 

Good to the last drop. 

Said to Joel Cheek in 1907 about Maxwell House coffee, and subsequently 

used as an advertising slogan 

18.61 Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber 

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Any time you're Lambeth way, 

Any evening, any day, 

You'll find us all 

Doin' the Lambeth Walk. 

Lambeth Walk (1937 song; music by Noel Gay) 

18.62 Billy Rose 

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1899-1966 

Me and my shadow. 

Title of song (1927; music by Al Jolson and Dave Dreyer) 

18.63 Billy Rose and Marty Bloom 

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Billy Rose 1899-1966 

Marty Bloom 

Does the spearmint lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight? 

Title of song (1924; music by Ernest Breuer; revived in 1959 by Lonnie 

Donegan with the title "Does your chewing-gum lose its flavour on the 

bedpost overnight?") 

18.64 Billy Rose and Willie Raskin 

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Billy Rose 1899-1966 

Willie Raskin 1896-1942 

Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong. 

Title of song (1927; music by Fred Fisher). Cf. Texas Guinan 

18.65 William Rose 

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1918-1987 

The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. 


18.66 Lord Rosebery (Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery) 

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1847-1929 

There is no need for any nation, however great, leaving the Empire, 

because the Empire is a commonwealth of nations. 

Speech in Adelaide, Australia, 18 Jan. 1884, in Marquess of Crewe Lord 

Rosebery (1931) vol. 1, ch. 7 

And now we cannot but observe that it is beginning to be hinted that we 

are a nation of amateurs. 

Rectorial Address at Glasgow University, 16 Nov. 1900, in The Times 

17 Nov. 1900 

I must plough my furrow alone. That is my fate, agreeable or the reverse; 

but before I get to the end of that furrow it is possible that I may find 

myself not alone. 

Speech at City of London Liberal Club, 19 July 1901, on remaining outside 

Liberal Party leadership, in The Times 20 July 1901 

18.67 Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg 

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Ethel Rosenberg 1916-1953 

Julius Rosenberg 1918-1953 

We are innocent, as we have proclaimed and maintained from the time of our 

arrest. This is the whole truth. To forsake this truth is to pay too high 

a price even for the priceless gift of life--for life thus purchased we 

could not live out in dignity and self-respect. 

Petition for executive clemency, filed 9 Jan. 1953, in Ethel Rosenberg

Death House Letters (1953) p. 149 

Ethel wants it made known that we are the first victims of American 

Fascism. 

Letter from Julius to Emanuel Bloch before their execution for espionage, 

19 June 1953, in Ethel Rosenberg Testament of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg 

(1954) p. 187 

18.68 Alan S. C. Ross 

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1907-1980 

U and Non-U. An essay in sociological linguistics. 

Title of essay in Nancy Mitford Noblesse Oblige (1956), first published in 

Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (1954) 

18.69 Harold Ross 

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1892-1951 

Usually he [Ross] confined himself to written comments. His later famed 

"What mean?" "Who he?" and the like began to appear on manuscripts and 

proofs. 

Dale Kramer Ross and The New Yorker (1952) ch. 13 

The New Yorker will be the magazine which is not edited for the old lady 

in Dubuque. 

In James Thurber The Years with Ross (1959) ch. 4 

"I don't want you to think I'm not incoherent," he [Ross] once rattled off 

to somebody in "21." 

James Thurber The Years with Ross (1959) ch. 5 

I understand the hero [of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms] keeps getting in 

bed with women, and the war wasn't fought that way. 

In James Thurber The Years with Ross (1959) ch. 7 

18.70 Sir Ronald Ross 

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1857-1932 

This day relenting God 

Hath placed within my hand 

A wondrous thing; and God 

Be praised. At his command, 

Seeking His secret deeds 

With tears and toiling breath, 

I find thy cunning seeds, 

O million-murdering Death. 

I know this little thing 

A myriad men will save, 

O Death, where is thy sting? 

Thy victory, O Grave? 

Philosophies (1910) "In Exile" pt. 7 (describing his part in discovering 

the life-cycle of the malaria parasite in 1897; cf. Oxford Dictionary of

Quotations (1979) 77:1) 

18.71 Jean Rostand 

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1894-1977 

Mon pessimisme va jusqu'… suspecter la sinc‚rit‚ des pessimistes. 

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the 

pessimists. 

Journal d'un caractŠre(Journal of a Character, 1931) 

°tre adulte, c'est ˆtre seul. 

To be adult is to be alone. 

Pens‚es d'un biologiste (Thoughts of a Biologist, 1954) p. 134 

On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est 

conqu‚rant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu. 

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a 

conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. 

Pens‚es d'un biologiste (Thoughts of a Biologist, 1939) p. 116 

18.72 Leo Rosten 

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1908- 

The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields, whom I have admired since the 

day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick, is this: any man who 

hates dogs and babies can't be all bad. 

Speech at Hollywood dinner in honour of W. C. Fields, 16 Feb. 1939, in 

Saturday Review 12 June 1976 

18.73 Philip Roth 

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1933- 

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain 

a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! 

Portnoy's Complaint (1967) p. 111 

Doctor, my doctor, what do you say, LET'S PUT THE ID BACK IN YID! 

Portnoy's Complaint (1967) p. 124 

18.74 Dan Rowan and Dick Martin 

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Dan Rowan 1922-1987 

Dick Martin 1923- 

Very interesting...but stupid. 

Catch-phrase in Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (American television series, 

1967-73) 

18.75 Helen Rowland

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1875-1950 

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. 

A Guide to Men (1922) p. 19 

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of 

beauty and a boy forever. 


The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he 

didn't commit when he had the opportunity. 


When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work 

for a living. 

Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1909) p. 45 

18.76 Richard Rowland 

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?1881-1947 

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum. 

Comment on take-over of United Artists by Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, 

Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, in Terry Ramsaye A Million and One 

Nights (1926) vol. 2, ch. 79 

18.77 Maude Royden 

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1876-1956 

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer 

satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer. 

Address at Queen's Hall, London, 16 July 1917, in The Times 17 July 1917 

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I know two things about the horse 

And one of them is rather coarse. 

Weekend Book (1928) p. 231 

18.79 Paul Alfred Rubens 

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1875-1917 

Oh! we don't want to lose you but we think you ought to go 

For your King and your Country both need you so; 

We shall want you and miss you but with all our might and main 

We shall cheer you, thank you, kiss you 

When you come back again. 

Your King and Country Want You (1914 song) 

18.80 Damon Runyon

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I do see her in tough joints more than somewhat. 

Collier's 22 May 1930, "Social Error" 

"You are snatching a hard guy when you snatch Bookie Bob. A very hard guy, 

indeed. In fact," I say, "I hear the softest thing about him is his front 

teeth." 

Collier's 26 Sept. 1931, "Snatching of Bookie Bob" 

I always claim the mission workers came out too early to catch any sinners 

on this part of Broadway. At such an hour the sinners are still in bed 

resting up from their sinning of the night before, so they will be in good 

shape for more sinning a little later on. 

Collier's 28 Jan. 1933, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" 

"In fact," Sam the Gonoph says, "I long ago come to the conclusion that 

all life is 6 to 5 against." 

Collier's 8 Sept. 1934, "A Nice Price" 

"My boy," he says, "always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up 

against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you." 

Cosmopolitan Aug. 1929, "A Very Honourable Guy" 

18.81 Dean Rusk 

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We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. 

Comment on Cuban missile crisis, 24 Oct. 1962, in Saturday Evening Post 

8 Dec. 1962 

18.82 Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William, third Earl Russell) 

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: 

the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for 

the suffering of mankind. 

Autobiography (1967) vol. 1, prologue 

I was told that the Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake 

and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did 

not happen as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic 

for an atheist. 

Autobiography (1968) vol. 2, ch. 3 

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the 

fact. 

Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1 

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins 

of mankind are caused by the fear of it. 


One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that

one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring 

all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a 

holiday to any patient who considered his work important. 


Envy is the basis of democracy. 


One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to 

avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond 

this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to 

interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. 


A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. 

People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. 


Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true 

happiness. 


To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of 

civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. 


Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was 

twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by 

examining his wives' mouths. 

Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1 

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that 

it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority 

of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than 

sensible. 

Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5 

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three 

parts dead. 

Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19 

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we 

are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. 

Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4 

Only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's 

habitation henceforth be safely built. 

Philosophical Essays (1910) no. 2 

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme 

beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. 

Philosophical Essays (1910) no. 4 

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground 

whatever for supposing it is true. 

Sceptical Essays (1928) "On the Value of Scepticism" 

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to 

moralists. That is why they invented Hell. 

Sceptical Essays (1928) "On the Value of Scepticism"

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting 

convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. 

Sceptical Essays (1928) "Dreams and Facts" 

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because 

they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed 

because they impose slavery. 

Sceptical Essays (1928) "Machines and Emotions" 

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach 

but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach. 

Sceptical Essays (1928) "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness" 

It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal 

definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks 

the magistrate." 

Sceptical Essays (1928) "Recrudescence of Puritanism" 

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that 

they want their children to be a credit to them. 

Sceptical Essays (1928) "Freedom versus Authority in Education" 

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of 

good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. 

Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" 

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of 

cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of 

truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life. 

Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" 

18.83 Dora Russell (Countess Russell) 

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We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent 

them. 

Hypatia (1925) ch. 4 

18.84 George William Russell 

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See AE (1.15) 

18.85 John Russell 

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1919- 

Certain phrases stick in the throat, even if they offer nothing that is 

analytically improbable. "A dashing Swiss officer" is one such. Another 

is "the beautiful Law Courts." 

Paris (1960) ch. 11 

18.86 Ernest Rutherford (Baron Rutherford of Nelson) 

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1871-1937 

I do not...want to give the impression that the use of large machines or 

of elaborate techniques is always justified; sometimes it contributes 

merely to the sense of self-importance of the investigator, and it is 

always salutary to remember Rutherford's "We haven't got the money, so 

we've got to think!" 

R. V. Jones in Bulletin of the Institute of Physics (1962) vol. 13, p. 102 

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. 

In J. B. Birks Rutherford at Manchester (1962) p. 108 

18.87 Gilbert Ryle 

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1900-1976 

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts 

belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode 

a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them. And 

this is what I am trying to do. 

Concept of Mind (1949) introduction 

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines. 

Concept of Mind (1949) introduction 

Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with 

deliberate abusiveness, as "the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine." 

Concept of Mind (1949) ch. 1 (referring to Descartes' mental-conduct 

concepts) 

19.0 S 

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19.1 Rafael Sabatini 

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1875-1950 

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. 

And that was all his patrimony. 

Scaramouche (1921) bk. 1, ch. 1 

19.2 Oliver Sacks 

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1933- 

The man who mistook his wife for a hat. 


19.3 Victoria ('Vita') Sackville-West 

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1892-1962 

The greater cats with golden eyes

Stare out between the bars. 

Deserts are there, and different skies, 

And night with different stars. 

King's Daughter (1929) pt. 2, no. 1 "The Greater Cats with Golden Eyes" 

The country habit has me by the heart, 

For he's bewitched for ever who has seen, 

Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring 

Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun. 

The Land (1926) "Winter" 

19.4 Fran‡oise Sagan 

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1935- 

Rien n'est plus affreux que le rire pour la jalousie. 

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. 

La Chamade (1965) ch. 9 

19.5 Antoine de Saint-Exup‚ry 

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1900-1944 

Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est 

fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des 

explications. 

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for 

children to be always and forever explaining things to them. 

Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince, 1943) ch. 1 

On ne voit bien qu'avec le c”ur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. 

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is 

invisible to the eye. 

Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince, 1943) ch. 21 

L'exp‚rience nous montre qu' aimer ce n'est point nous regarder l'un 

l'autre mais regarder ensemble dans la mˆme direction. 

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but 

in looking together in the same direction. 

Terre des Hommes (translated as "Wind, Sand and Stars," 1939) ch. 8 

19.6 George Saintsbury 

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1845-1933 

I have never yet given a second-hand opinion of any thing, or book, or 

person. 

Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920) "Preliminary" 

19.7 Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) 

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1870-1916

"But why should you want to shield him?" cried Egbert; "the man is a 

common murderer." "A common murderer, possibly, but a very uncommon cook." 

Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914) "The Blind Spot" 

"Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death," 

said Clovis. 

Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914) "The Feast of Nemesis" 

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. 

Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker" 

"I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion," he resumed 

presently. "They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, 

they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive 

at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the 

thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the 

sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster." 


All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't 

respectable live beyond other peoples'. A few gifted individuals manage to 

do both. 


The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume 

locally. 

Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Jesting of Arlington Stringham" 

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect. 

Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "Ministers of Grace" 

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the 

religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die. 

Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Christmas Presents" 

Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf 

to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return. 

Reginald (1904) "Reginald on the Academy" 

I always say beauty is only sin deep. 

Reginald (1904) "Reginald's Choir Treat" 

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English 

accent. 

Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Worries" 

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have 

reminiscences of what never happened. 

Reginald (1904) "Reginald at the Carlton" 

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, 

but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have 

forseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with 

racehorses and the cheaper clarets. 

Reginald (1904) "Reginald at the Carlton" 

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as good cooks go, she went. 

Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

Women and elephants never forget an injury. 

Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins" 

The Young Turkish candidate, who had conformed to the Western custom of 

one wife and hardly any mistresses, stood by helplessly while his 

adversary's poll swelled to a triumphant majority. 

Reginald in Russia (1910) "A Young Turkish Catastrophe" 

The death of John Pennington had left his widow in circumstances which 

were more straitened than ever, and the Park had receded even from her 

notepaper, where it had long been retained as a courtesy title on the 

principle that addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. 

Reginald in Russia (1910) "Cross Currents" 

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect 

a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school. 

Reginald in Russia (1910) "The Baker's Dozen" 

I should be the last person to say anything against temptation, naturally, 

but we have a proverb down here "in baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, 

always leave room for the mouse." 

The Square Egg (1924) "The Infernal Parliament" 

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. 

The Square Egg (1924) "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business" 

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; 

they merely know more. 

Toys of Peace and Other Papers (1919) "Hyacinth" 

A buzz of recognition came from the front rows of the pit, together with 

a craning of necks on the part of those in less favoured seats. It 

heralded the arrival of Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered 

himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world. 

The Unbearable Bassington (1912) ch. 13 

19.8 J. D. Salinger 

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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want 

to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how 

my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David 

Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it. 

Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 1 

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, 

you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you 

could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. 


Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where 

the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I 

break them right away. 


The only thing old Phoebe liked was when Hamlet patted this dog on the 

head. She thought that was funny and nice, and it was. What I'll have to 

do is, I'll have to read that play. The trouble with me is, I always have

to read that stuff by myself. If an actor acts it out, I hardly listen. 

I keep worrying about whether he's going to do something phoney every 

minute. 


Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get 

a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles 

they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start 

thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like 

old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam 

horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. 


"You know that song 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye?' I'd 

like--" 

"It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. 

"It's a poem. By Robert Burns." 

"I know it's a poem by Robert Burns." 

She was right, though. It is "If a body meet a body coming through the 

rye." I didn't know it then, though. 

"I thought it was 'If a body catch a body,'" I said. "Anyway, I keep 

picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye 

and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, 

I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What 

I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the 

cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going 

I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all 

day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but 

that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy." 


A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink 

a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. 

Seymour: an Introduction (1959) in Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters 

and Seymour: an Introduction (1963) p. 195 

19.9 Lord Salisbury (Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, fifth Marquess of Salisbury) 

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He is, as we all know, a man of most unusual intellectual brilliance; and 

he is, moreover, both brave and resolute. Those are valuable and not too 

common attributes in politics. But the fact remains that I believe he has 

adopted, especially in his relationship to the white communities of 

Africa, a most unhappy and an entirely wrong approach. He has been too 

clever by half. 

Said of Iain Macleod, Colonial Secretary, in Hansard (House of Lords) 

7 Mar. 1961, col. 307 

19.10 Anthony Sampson 

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1926- 

Members [of civil service orders] rise from CMG (known sometimes in

Whitehall as "Call Me God") to the KCMG ("Kindly Call Me God") to--for 

a select few governors and super-ambassadors--the GCMG ("God Calls Me 

God"). 

Anatomy of Britain (1962) ch. 18 

19.11 Lord Samuel (Herbert Louis, first Viscount Samuel) 

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A library is thought in cold storage. 

A Book of Quotations (1947) p. 10 

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one a failure. 

A Book of Quotations (1947) p. 115 

Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on 

myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and 

disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built. 

Romanes Lecture, 1947, p. 14 

19.12 Carl Sandburg 

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1878-1967 

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look 

through to guess about what is seen during a moment. 

Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered" 

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. 

Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered" 

Hog Butcher for the World, 

Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, 

Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; 

Stormy, husky, brawling, 

City of the Big Shoulders. 

Chicago Poems (1916) "Chicago" 

The fog comes 

on little cat feet. 

It sits looking 

over harbor and city 

on silent haunches 

and then moves on. 

Chicago Poems (1916) "Fog" 

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. 

Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie" 

When Abraham Lincoln was shovelled into the tombs, 

he forgot the copperheads and the assassin... 

in the dust, in the cool tombs. 

Cornhuskers (1918) "Cool Tombs" 

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. 

Shovel them under and let me work-- 

I am the grass; I cover all. 

Cornhuskers (1918) "Grass"

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way. 

Incidentals (1907) p. 8 

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes 

to work. 

In New York Times 13 Feb. 1959, p. 21 

Little girl...Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. 

The People, Yes (1936) (cf. Charlotte Keyes in McCall's Oct. 1966 

"Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came?"; a 1970 American film was 

entitled "Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?") 

Why is there always a secret singing 

When a lawyer cashes in? 

Why does a hearse horse snicker 

Hauling a lawyer away? 

Smoke and Steel (1920) "The Lawyers Know Too Much" 

19.13 Henry 'Red' Sanders 

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Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. 

In Sports Illustrated 26 Dec. 1955 (often attributed to Vince Lombardi) 

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1926-1976 

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling 

he has of the good or the evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at 

it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes. 

Blue Skies, Brown Studies (1961) "From a Writer's Notebook" 

19.15 George Santayana 

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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not 

laugh is a fool. 

Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3 

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your 

aim. 

Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction 

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence 

remains a mad and lamentable experiment. 

Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10 

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.... 

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 


It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer 

unhappiness. 

Life of Reason (1905) vol. 2, ch. 2

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. 


Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension 

which lends utility to its conditions. 


An artist may visit a museum, but only a pedant can live there. 


Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in 

itself and not in its subject. 


The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have 

loved it. 

Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality" 

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, 

hobbies, and humours. 

Soliloquies in England (1922) "The British Character" 

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. 

Soliloquies in England (1922) "War Shrines" 

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially 

true. 

The Unknowable (1923) p. 4 

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be 

always old-fashioned. 

Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2 

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly 

is to share it. 

Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4 

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1888-1937 

Hugh pulled out his cigarette-case. "Turkish this side--Virginia that." 

Bull-dog Drummond (1920) ch. 8 

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1856-1925 

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. 

In N. Bentley and E. Esar Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951) 

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1897-1985 

Ain't it grand to be blooming well dead?


I lift up my finger and I say "tweet tweet." 


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1902- 

Today, thanks to technical progress, the radio and television, to which we 

devote so many of the leisure hours once spent listening to parlour 

chatter and parlour music, have succeeded in lifting the manufacture of 

banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major 

industry. 

Times Literary Supplement 10 June 1960 

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1905-1980 

Quand les riches se font la guerre ce sont les pauvres qui meurent. 

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. 

Le Diable et le bon Dieu (The Devil and the Good Lord, 1951) act 1, first 

tableau 

L' ‚crivain doit donc refuser de se laisser transformer en institution. 

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an 

institution. 

Declaration read at Stockholm, 22 Oct. 1964, refusing the Nobel Prize, in 

Michel Contat and Michel Rybalka (eds.) Les crits de Sartre (1970) 

p. 403 

L'existence pr‚cŠde et commande l'essence. 

Existence precedes and rules essence. 

L'°tre et le n‚ant (Being and Nothingness, 1943) pt. 4, ch. 1 

Je suis condemn‚ … ˆtre libre. 

I am condemned to be free. 


L' homme est une passion inutile. 

Man is a useless passion. 


Alors, c'est ‡a l'Enfer. Je n'aurais jamais cru.... Vous vous rappelez: le 

soufre, le b–cher, le gril.... Ah! quelle plaisanterie. Pas besoin de 

gril, l' Enfer, c'est les Autres. 

So that's what Hell is: I'd never have believed it.... Do you remember, 

brimstone, the stake, the gridiron?... What a joke! No need of a gridiron, 

Hell is other people. 

Huis Clos (Closed Doors, 1944) sc. 5

Il n'y a pas de bon pŠre, c'est la rŠgle; qu'on n'en tienne pas grief aux 

hommes mais au lien de paternit‚ qui est pourri. Faire des enfants, rien 

de mieux; en avoir, quelle iniquit‚! 

There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but 

on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing 

better; to have them, what iniquity! 

Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "Lire" 

Les bons pauvres ne savent pas que leur office est d'exercer notre 

g‚n‚rosit‚. 

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our 

generosity. 


Elle [ma grand-mŠre] ne croyait … rien; seul, son scepticism l'empˆchait 

d'ˆtre ath‚e. 

She [my grandmother] believed in nothing; only her scepticism kept her 

from being an atheist. 


Comme tous les songe-creux, je confondis le d‚senchantement avec la 

v‚rit‚. 

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. 

Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "crire" 

Je confondis les choses avec leurs noms: c'est croire. 

I confused things with their names: that is belief. 

Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "crire" 

Trois heures, c'est toujours trop tard ou trop t“t pour ce qu'on veut 

faire. 

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. 

La Naus‚e (Nausea, 1938) "Vendredi" 

Ma pens‚e, c'est moi: voil… pourquoi je ne peux pas m'arrˆter. J'existe 

par ce que je pense...et je ne peux pas m'empˆcher de penser. 

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist by what I think...and 

I can't prevent myself from thinking. 

La Naus‚e (Nausea, 1938) "Lundi" 

Je d‚teste les victimes quand elles respectent leurs bourreaux. 

I hate victims who respect their executioners. 

Les S‚questr‚s d'Altona (The Condemned of Altona, 1960) act 1, sc. 1 

Je me m‚fie des incommunicables, c'est la source de toute violence. 

I distrust the incommunicable: it is the source of all violence. 

Les Temps Modernes July 1947, p. 106, "Qu'est-ce que la litt‚rature?" 

(What is Literature?) 

19.21 Siegfried Sassoon 

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Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land, 

Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. 

Counter-Attack (1918) "Dreamers" 

In the great hour of destiny they stand, 

Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. 

Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win 

Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives. 

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin 

They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. 

Counter-Attack (1918) "Dreamers" 

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, 

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, 

And speed glum heroes up the line to death. 

You'd see me with my puffy petulant face, 

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel, 

Reading the Roll of Honour. "Poor young chap," 

I'd say--"I used to know his father well; 

Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap." 

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, 

I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed. 

Counter-Attack (1918) "Base Details" 

"Good-morning; good morning!" the General said 

When we met him last week on our way to the line. 

Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead, 

And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine. 

"He's a cheery old card," grunted Harry to Jack 

As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. 

But he did for them both by his plan of attack. 

Counter-Attack (1918) "The General" 

Does it matter?--losing your legs?... 

For people will always be kind, 

And you need not show that you mind 

When the others come in after hunting 

To gobble their muffins and eggs. 

Does it matter?--losing your sight?... 

There's such splendid work for the blind; 

And people will always be kind, 

As you sit on the terrace remembering 

And turning your face to the light. 

Counter-Attack (1918) "Does it Matter?" 

Who will remember, passing through this Gate, 

The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? 

Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,-- 

Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones? 

The Heart's Journey (1928) "On Passing the New Menin Gate" 

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military 

authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged 

by those who have the power to end it. 

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) pt. 10, ch. 2 

I'd like to see a Tank come down the stalls,

Lurching to rag-time tunes, or "Home, sweet Home,"-- 

And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls 

To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. 

The Old Huntsman (1917) "Blighters" 

And he'd come home again to find it more 

Desirable than it ever was before. 

How right it seemed that he should reach the span 

Of comfortable years allowed to man! 

Splendid to eat and sleep and choose a wife, 

Safe with his wound, a citizen of life. 

He hobbled blithely through the garden gate, 

And thought: "Thank God they had to amputate!" 

The Old Huntsman (1917) "The One-Legged Man" 

Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled, 

And one arm bent across your sullen cold 

Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you, 

Deep-shadow'd from the candle's glittering gold; 

And you wonder why I shake you by the shoulder; 

Drowsy, you mumble and sigh and turn your head... 

You are too young to fall asleep for ever; 

And when you sleep you remind me of the dead. 

War Poems (1919) "The Dug-Out" 

But the past is just the same,--and War's a bloody game... 

Have you forgotten yet?... 

Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget. 

War Poems (1919) "Aftermath" 

Everyone suddenly burst out singing; 

And I was filled with such delight 

As prisoned birds must find in freedom 

Winging wildly across the white 

Orchards and dark green fields; on; on; and out of sight. 

Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted, 

And beauty came like the setting sun. 

My heart was shaken with tears and horror 

Drifted away...O but every one 

Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done. 

War Poems (1919) "Everyone Sang" 

19.22 Erik Satie 

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1866-1925 

Ravel refuse la L‚gion d'Honneur, mais son ”uvre l'accepte. 

Ravel refuses the Legion of Honour, but all his music accepts it. 

In Jean Cocteau Le Discours d'Oxford (1956) p. 49 

19.23 Telly Savalas 

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1926- 

Who loves ya, baby? 

Catch-phrase in American TV series Kojak (1973-8)

19.24 Dorothy L. Sayers 

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1893-1957 

I admit it is better fun to punt than to be punted, and that a desire to 

have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry. 

Gaudy Night (1935) ch. 14 

With a gesture of submission he bowed his head and stood gravely, the 

square cap dangling in his hand. "Placetne, magistra?" "Placet." 

Gaudy Night (1935) ch. 23 (Lord Peter Wimsey's marriage proposal to 

Harriet Vane, and her acceptance) 

Plain lies are dangerous: the only weapons left him [the advertiser] are 

the suggestio falsi and the suppressio veri, and his use even of these 

would be very much more circumscribed if one person in ten had ever been 

taught how to read. Those who prefer their English sloppy have only 

themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of 

vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. The moral of all 

this...is that we have the kind of advertising we deserve. 

Spectator 19 Nov. 1937 "The Psychology of Advertising" 

As I grow older and older, 

And totter towards the tomb, 

I find that I care less and less 

Who goes to bed with whom. 

"That's Why I Never Read Modern Novels," in Janet Hitchman Such a Strange 

Lady (1975) ch. 12 

19.25 Al Scalpone 

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The family that prays together stays together. 

Slogan devised for the Roman Catholic Family Rosary Crusade in 1947: see 

Patrick Peyton All for Her (1967) p. 144 

19.26 Hugh Scanlon (Baron Scanlon) 

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1913- 

Of course liberty is not licence. Liberty in my view is conforming to 

majority opinion. 

Television interview, 9 Aug. 1977, in Listener 11 Aug. 1977 

19.27 Arthur Scargill 

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1938- 

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not 

defied the law. 

Said in evidence to House of Commons Select Committee on Employment, 

2 Apr. 1980, in House of Commons Paper no. 462 of Session 1979-80 p. 55 

19.28 Age Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Sergio Leone 

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Age Scarpelli 1926- 

Luciano Vincenzoni 1926- 

Sergio Leone 1921- 

Il buono, il bruto, il cattivo. 

The good, the bad, and the ugly. 


19.29 Moritz Schlick 

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The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification. 

Philosophical Review (1936) vol. 45, p. 341 "Meaning and Verification" 

19.30 Artur Schnabel 

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1882-1951 

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between 

the notes--ah, that is where the art resides! 

In Chicago Daily News 11 June 1958 

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand. 

In Saturday Review of Literature 29 Sept. 1951 

I don't think there was ever a piece of music that changed a man's 

decision on how to vote. 

My Life and Music (1961) pt. 2, ch. 8 

When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know 

two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing." 

My Life and Music (1961) pt. 2, ch. 10 

19.31 Arnold Schoenberg 

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1874-1951 

If it is art, it is not for the masses. "If it is for the masses it is not 

art" is a topic which is rather similar to a word of yourself. 

Letter to W. S. Schlamm, 1 July 1945, in Erwin Stein Arnold Schoenberg 

Letters (1964) p. 235 

19.32 Budd Schulberg 

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1914- 

You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a 

contender. I could have been somebody--instead of a bum, which is what 

I am, let's face it. 

On the Waterfront (1954 film; words spoken by Marlon Brando) 

What makes Sammy run? 

Title of novel (1941)

19.33 Diane B. Schulder 

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1937- 

Law is a reflection and a source of prejudice. It both enforces and 

suggests forms of bias. 

In Robin Morgan Sisterhood is Powerful (1970) p. 139 

19.34 E. F. Schumacher 

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1911-1977 

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, 

a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future 

generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have 

not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper. 

Small is Beautiful (1973) pt. 1, ch. 3 

Small is beautiful. A study of economics as if people mattered. 


19.35 Albert Schweitzer 

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1875-1965 

Am Abend des dritten Tages, als wir bei Sonnenuntergang gerade durch eine 

Herde Nilpferde hindurchfuhren, stand urpl”tzlich, von mir nicht geahnt 

und nicht gesucht, das Wort "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben" vor mir. 

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making 

our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, 

unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, "Reverence for Life." 

Aus meinem Leben und Denken (My Life and Thought, 1933) ch. 13 

"Heda, Kamerad," rufe ich, "willst du uns nicht ein wenig helfen?" "Ich 

bin ein Intellektueller und trage Kein Holz," lautete die Antwort. "Hast 

du Glck," erwiderte ich; "auch ich wollte ein Intellektueller werden, 

aber es ist mir nicht gelungen." 

"Hullo! friend," I call out, "Won't you lend us a hand?" "I am an 

intellectual and don't drag wood about," came the answer. "You're lucky," 

I reply. "I too wanted to become an intellectual, but I didn't succeed." 

Mitteilungen aus Lambarene (1928, tr. by C. T. Campion, 1931 as More from 

the Primeval Forest) ch. 5 

Die Wahrheit hat keine Stunde. Ihre Zeit ist immer und gerade dann wenn 

sie am unzeitgem„ssesten scheint. 

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now--always, and indeed 

then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances. 

Zwischen Wasser und Urwald (On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, 1922) 

ch. 11 

19.36 Kurt Schwitters 

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1887-1948

Ich bin Maler, ich nagle meine Bilder. 

I am a painter and I nail my pictures together. 

Remark to Raoul Hausmann, 1918, in Raoul Hausmann Am Anfang war Dada (In 

the Beginning was Dada, 1972) p. 63 

19.37 Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin 

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Martin Scorsese 1942- 

Mardik Martin 

You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the street, you do 

it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it. 

Mean Streets (1973 film) in Michael Bliss Martin Scorsese and Michael 

Cimino (1985) ch. 3 

19.38 C. P. Scott 

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1846-1932 

A newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is 

to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering 

of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not 

tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in 

the mode of presentation must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. 

Comment is free, but facts are sacred. 

Manchester Guardian 5 May 1921 

19.39 Paul Scott 

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1920-1978 

The jewel in the crown. 


19.40 Robert Falcon Scott 

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1868-1912 

Great God! this [the South Pole] is an awful place and terrible enough for 

us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority. 

Diary, 17 Jan. 1912, in Scott's Last Expedition (1913) vol. 1, ch. 18 

For God's sake look after our people. 

Diary, 29 Mar. 1912, in Scott's Last Expedition (1913) vol. 1, ch. 20 

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than 

games; they encourage it in some schools. 

Final letter to his wife, in Scott's Last Expedition (1913) vol. 1, ch. 20 

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, 

endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart 

of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the

tale. 

"Message to the Public" in Scott's Last Expedition (1913) vol. 1, ch. 20 

19.41 Florida Scott-Maxwell 

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No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for 

signs of improvement. 

Measure of my Days (1968) p. 16 

19.42 Alan Seeger 

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1888-1916 

I have a rendezvous with Death 

At some disputed barricade, 

When Spring comes round with rustling shade 

And apple blossoms fill the air. 

I have a rendezvous with Death 

When Spring brings back blue days and fair. 

North American Review Oct. 1916 "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" 

19.43 Pete Seeger 

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1919- 

Where have all the flowers gone? 

The girls have picked them every one. 

Oh, when will you ever learn? 

Where Have all the Flowers Gone? (1961 song) See also Anonymous (1.43) 

19.44 Erich Segal 

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1937- 

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry. 

Love Story (1970) ch. 13 

19.45 W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman 

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W. C. Sellar 1898-1951 

R. J. Yeatman 1898-1968 

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty who 

don't want to learn--much. 

And Now All This (1932) introduction 

The Roman Conquest was, however, a Good Thing, since the Britons were only 

natives at the time. 

1066 and All That (1930) ch. 1 

The conversion of England was thus effected by the landing of St Augustine 

in Thanet and other places, which resulted in the country being overrun by 

a Wave of Saints. Among these were St Ive, St Pancra, the great St

Bernard (originator of the clerical collar), St Bee, St Ebb, St Neot (who 

invented whisky), St Kit and St Kin, and the Venomous Bead (author of The 

Rosary). 

1066 and All That (1930) ch. 3 

Edward III had very good manners. One day at a royal dance he noticed 

some men-about-court mocking a lady whose garter had come off, whereupon 

to put her at her ease he stopped the dance and made the memorable 

epitaph: "Honi soie qui mal y pense" ("Honey, your silk stocking's 

hanging down"). 

1066 and All That (1930) ch. 24 

Shortly after this the cruel Queen died and a post-mortem examination 

revealed the word "CALLOUS" engraved on her heart. 

1066 and All That (1930) ch. 32 

The utterly memorable Struggle between the Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) 

and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive). 

1066 and All That (1930) ch. 35 

Charles II was always very merry and was therefore not so much a king as a 

Monarch. 

1066 and All That (1930) ch. 36 

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it 

off, for fear of Political Economy. 

1066 and All That (1930) ch. 38 

Napoleon's armies always used to march on their stomachs shouting: "Vive 

l'Int‚rieur!" and so moved about very slowly (ventre-…-terre, as the 

French say) thus enabling Wellington to catch them up and defeat them. 

1066 and All That (1930) ch. 48 

Gladstone also invented the Education Rate by which it was possible to 

calculate how soon anybody could be educated, and he spent his declining 

years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately 

whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question. 

1066 and All That (1930) ch. 57 

AMERICA was thus clearly top nation, and History came to a . 

1066 and All That (1930) ch. 62 

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once. 

1066 and All That (1930) "Test Paper 5" 

19.46 Robert W. Service 

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1874-1958 

Ah! the clock is always slow; 

It is later than you think. 

Ballads of a Bohemian (1921) "It Is Later Than You Think" 

When we, the Workers, all demand: "What are WE fighting for?.".. 

Then, then we'll end that stupid crime, that devil's madness--War. 

Ballads of a Bohemian (1921) "Michael" 

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive; 

That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive.

Dissolute, damned and despairful, crippled and palsied and slain, 

This is the Will of the Yukon,--Lo, how she makes it plain! 

Songs of a Sourdough (1907) "The Law of the Yukon" 

A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon; 

The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune; 

Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew, 

And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as 

Lou. 

Songs of a Sourdough (1907) "Shootings of Dan McGrew" 

A promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code. 

Songs of a Sourdough (1907) "Cremation of Sam McGee" 

19.47 Anne Sexton 

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1928-1974 

In a dream you are never eighty. 

All My Pretty Ones (1962) "Old" 

19.48 James Seymour and Rian James 

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1899- 

You're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star. 

42nd Street (1933 film) 

19.49 Peter Shaffer 

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1926- 

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean--from that whole vast 

intuitive culture--are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two 

china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy. 

Equus (1973) act 1, sc. 18 

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. 

Equus (1973) act 2, sc. 35 

19.50 Eileen Shanahan 

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The length of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people 

present. 

In New York Times Magazine 17 Mar. 1968 

19.51 Bill Shankly 

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1914-1981 

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like 

that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. 

In Sunday Times 4 Oct. 1981

19.52 Tom Sharpe 

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1928- 

The South African police would leave no stone unturned to see that nothing 

disturbed the even terror of their lives. 

Indecent Exposure (1973) ch. 1 

Skullion had little use for contraceptives at the best of times. 

Unnatural, he called them, and placed them in the lower social category of 

things along with elastic-sided boots and made-up bow ties. Not the sort 

of attire for a gentleman. 

Porterhouse Blue (1974) ch. 9 

19.53 George Bernard Shaw 

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1856-1950 

All great truths begin as blasphemies. 

Annajanska (1919) p. 262 

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who havnt and 

dont. 

The Apple Cart (1930) act 1 

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to 

keep a motor car? 


Breakages, Limited, the biggest industrial corporation in the country. 


I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad 

for me do not tempt me. 

The Apple Cart (1930) interlude 

Arms and the man. 

Title of play (1898). Cf. Virgil in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 

557:8 

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and 

cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old 

ones, grub. 

Arms and the Man (1898) act 1 

Oh, you are a very poor soldier--a chocolate cream soldier! 


I never apologize! 


Youre not a man, youre a machine. 


You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and 

I say "Why not?" 

Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 1, act 1

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is 

a great and blessed invention. 

Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 1, act 1 

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes illness worth while. 

Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 2 

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. 


Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be 

delightful. 


A strange lady giving an address in Zurich wrote him [Shaw] a proposal, 

thus: "You have the greatest brain in the world, and I have the most 

beautiful body; so we ought to produce the most perfect child." Shaw 

asked: "What if the child inherits my body and your brains?" 

In Hesketh Pearson Bernard Shaw (1942) p. 310 

He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are 

the laws of nature. 

Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 2 (said by Caesar of his secretary, 

a Briton) 

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares 

that it is his duty. 

Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 3 

He who has never hoped can never despair. 

Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4 

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without 

originality or moral courage. 

Notes to Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) "Julius Caesar" 

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to 

consume wealth without producing it. 

Candida (1898) act 1 

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any 

less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are 

more true: they are the only things that are true. 


It is easy--terribly easy--to shake a man's faith in himself. To take 

advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. 


I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. 


The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be 

indifferent to them: thats the essence of inhumanity. 

The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2 

Martyrdom...is the only way in which a man can become famous without 

ability. 

The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3

I never expect a soldier to think. 


swindon: "What will history say?" 

burgoyne: "History, sir, will tell lies as usual." 


Your friend the British soldier can stand up to anything except the 

British War Office. 


There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all 

diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes. 

The Doctor's Dilemma (1911) act 1 

All professions are conspiracies against the laity. 


I don't believe in morality. I am a disciple of Bernard Shaw. 


I believe in Michael Angelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of 

design, the mystery of colour, the redemption of all things by Beauty 

everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. 

Amen. Amen. 


Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is 

ever imposed in the interest of the children. 

Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 9 

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support 

of Paul. 

Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30 

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up 

to date. 

Fanny's First Play (1914) "Induction" 

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who 

the author is, do you? 

Fanny's First Play (1914) epilogue 

If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to 

reason. 

Fanny's First Play (1914) epilogue 

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is 

natural to a cockatoo. 

Getting Married (1911) preface "Hearth and Home" 

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against 

the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the 

obligation to become the servant of a man. 

Getting Married (1911) preface "The Right to Motherhood" 

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the 

farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than 

chickens and calves, and that men and women are not so completely enslaved 

as farm stock.

Getting Married (1911) preface "The Personal Sentimental Basis of 

Monogamy" 

What God hath joined together no man ever shall put asunder: God will take 

care of that. 

Getting Married (1911) p. 216 

Sam wanted to make a Goldwyn writer of George Bernard Shaw. They 

discussed it over tea one day in London.... A version of the conversation 

was cabled over to Howard Dietz, Goldwyn's publicity chief; he compressed 

Shaw's words into: "The trouble, Mr Goldwyn, is that you are only 

interested in art and I am only interested in money." This was cabled back 

to London and released there. It added considerably to Shaw's reputation 

as a wit. 

Alva Johnson The Great Goldwyn (1937) ch. 3 

I am a woman of the world, Hector; and I can assure you that if you will 

only take the trouble always to do the perfectly correct thing, and to say 

the perfectly correct thing, you can do just what you like. 

Heartbreak House (1919) act 1 

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and 

really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables 

are the real centre of the household. 


The captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditch-water; and the crew is 

gambling in the forecastle. She will strike and sink and split. Do you 

think the laws of God will be suspended in favour of England because you 

were born in it? 


Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and 

successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its 

basis. 

The Irrational Knot (1905) preface 

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. 

The Irrational Knot (1905) ch. 14 

A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of 

which you can have no conception. 

The Irrational Knot (1905) ch. 18 

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. 

John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 1 

My way of joking is to tell the truth. Its the funniest joke in the world. 


What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. 


There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, 

and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient. 


The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. our first 

duty--a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed--is 

not to be poor.

Major Barbara (1907) preface 

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our 

civilization, the one sound spot in our social conscience. Money is the 

most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honour, 

generosity and beauty as conspicuously and undeniably as the want of it 

represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness. Not the 

least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it 

fortifies and dignifies noble people. 

Major Barbara (1907) preface 

Cusins is a very nice fellow, certainly: nobody would ever guess that he 

was born in Australia. 

Major Barbara (1907) act 1 

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an 

educated gentleman. 


I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. 


I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes. 


Wot prawce Selvytion nah? 


Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions 

of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. 

It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person 

would do at eleven in the morning. 


He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly 

to a political career. 


The sixth Undershaft wrote up these words: Nothing is ever done in this 

world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. 


Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one 

young woman and another. 


But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell 

on earth. 

Man and Superman (1903) act 1 

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, 

of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our 

experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. 


The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. 


Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation. She sacrifices herself 

to it.


The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his 

mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but 

his art. 


Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the 

struggle between the artist man and the mother woman. 


There is no love sincerer than the love of food. 


Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that 

sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the Polytechnic 

they teach you to be an engineer or such like. 


You think that you are Ann's suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the 

pursued; that it is your part to woo, to persuade, to prevail, to 

overcome. Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked down quarry, the 

destined prey. 


It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's 

to keep unmarried as long as he can. 


Mendoza: I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich. 

Tanner: I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. 


Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. 


Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the 

Government and public opinion allow them to do. 


An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. 


In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he 

outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the 

slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. 


In the arts of peace Man is a bungler. 


As an old soldier I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as sea 

sickness, and matters just as little. 


When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs 

off its womankind. 


What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?


Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of 

its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and 

the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly 

asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, 

why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? 


Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it 

has been in the house three days? 


There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your hearts desire. The 

other is to get it. 


Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only 

shifted it to another shoulder. 

Man and Superman (1903) "The Revolutionist's Handbook," foreword 

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their 

tastes may not be the same. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: The Golden Rule" 

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: The Golden Rule" 

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy 

consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of 

idolators. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only 

worship the national idols. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Idolatry" 

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by 

the corrupt few. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Democracy" 

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality" 

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Education" 

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Education" 

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the 

maximum of opportunity. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Marriage" 

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced 

by the inferior. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Titles" 

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while 

to keep them. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Servants"

If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, even at the 

risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should 

be forgiven. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: How to Beat Children" 

Beware of the man whose god is in the skies. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Religion" 

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on 

rascality. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Virtues and Vice" 

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Greatness" 

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers 

both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Moderation" 

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one 

persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress 

depends on the unreasonable man. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Reason" 

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are 

not strong enough to master her. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Reason" 

Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Decency" 

Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Fame" 

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Women in the Home" 

Every man over forty is a scoundrel. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings" 

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which 

forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. 


Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. 


It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. 


Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you 

nor allows you to forgive yourself. 


Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. 

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Self-Sacrifice" 

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing 

it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does

everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs 

you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he 

bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles 

and cuts off his king's head on republican principles. 

Man of Destiny (1898) p. 201 

Anybody on for a game of tennis? 

Misalliance (1914) p. 25 (perhaps the origin of the phrase "Anyone for 

tennis?," said to be typical of drawing-room comedies; cf. Humphrey 

Bogart) 

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you. 

Misalliance (1914) p. 85 

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be 

good to some man that can afford to be good to her. 

Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) act 2 

A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On. 

Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) act 4 (said of Miss Warren) 

[Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. 

In New Statesman 23 Mar. 1962 

Youll never have a quiet world til you knock the patriotism out of the 

human race. 

O'Flaherty V.C. (1919) p. 178 

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is 

death. 

Overruled (1916) p. 72 

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so 

horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some 

respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not 

forced to read books written by the warders and the governor...and beaten 

or otherwise tormented if you cannot remember their utterly unmemorable 

contents. 

Parents and Children (1914) "School" 

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether 

you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. 

Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness" 

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. 

Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness" 

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal 

constancy of the women who love me. 

The Philanderer (1898) act 2 

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. 

Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898) vol. 2, preface 

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their 

children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach 

himself what it sounds like. It is impossible for an Englishman to open 

his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. 

Pygmalion (1916) preface

Hes a gentleman: look at his boots. 

Pygmalion (1916) act 1 

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of 

articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear 

and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious 

pigeon. 


I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady. 


Pickering: Have you no morals, man? 

Doolittle: Can't afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as 

poor as me. 


I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that 

means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle-class morality all the 

time. 


My aunt died of influenza: so they said. But it's my belief they done the 

old woman in. 


Gin was mother's milk to her. 


Freddy: Are you walking across the Park, Miss Doolittle? If so-- 

Liza: Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi. 


I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle-class morality. 


The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. 

Saint Joan (1924) preface 

If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation! 

Saint Joan (1924) sc. 2 

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose 

and nature of miracles.... Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith 

does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle. 


We were not fairly beaten, my lord. No Englishman is ever fairly beaten. 


How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in 

terms. 


Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have 

no imagination? 

Saint Joan (1924) epilogue 

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even 

Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare

when I measure my mind against his. The intensity of my impatience with 

him occasionally reaches such a pitch, that it would positively be 

a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him, knowing as I do how 

incapable he and his worshippers are of understanding any less obvious 

form of indignity. 

Saturday Review 26 Sept. 1896 (reviewing a production of Cymbeline) 

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. 

Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration" 

"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty 

as himself, and hates them for it." 

An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5 

We dont bother much about dress and manners in England, because, as a 

nation, we dont dress well and weve no manners. 

You Never Can Tell (1898) act 1 

Well, sir, you never can tell. Thats a principle in life with me, sir, if 

youll excuse my having such a thing, sir. 


The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life. 


My speciality is being right when other people are wrong. 


The younger generation is knocking at the door, and as I open it there 

steps spritely in the incomparable Max. 

Saturday Review 21 May 1898 "Valedictory" (on handing over the theatre 

review column to Max Beerbohm) 

19.54 Sir Hartley Shawcross (Baron Shawcross) 

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1902- 

"But," said Alice, "the question is whether you can make a word mean 

different things." "Not so," said Humpty-Dumpty, "the question is which is 

to be the master. That's all." We are the masters at the moment, and not 

only at the moment, but for a very long time to come. 

Hansard 2 Apr. 1946, col. 1213. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 

(1979) 135:22 

19.55 Patrick Shaw-Stewart 

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1888-1917 

I saw a man this morning 

Who did not wish to die; 

I ask and cannot answer 

If otherwise wish I. 

Poem (1916) in M. Baring Have You Anything to Declare? (1936) p. 39 

He [Shaw-Stewart] once asked me if I knew a certain Duke's eldest son, and 

when I said no, and from what I heard I didn't think we should like him if 

we did, he answered: "I've yet to meet the Duke I couldn't like." 

Edward Marsh A Number of People (1939) ch. 9

19.56 Gloria Shayne 

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Goodbye cruel world. 


19.57 E. A. Sheppard 

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See Charles Collins (3.77) 

19.58 Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart 

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Burt Shevelove 1915-1982 

Larry Gelbart ?1928- 

A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum. 

Title of musical (1962; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) 

19.59 Emanuel Shinwell (Baron Shinwell) 

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1884-1986 

We know that the organised workers of the country are our friends. As for 

the rest, they don't matter a tinker's cuss. 

Speech to Electrical Trades Union conference at Margate, 7 May 1947, in 

Manchester Guardian 8 May 1947 

19.60 Jean Sibelius 

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1865-1957 

"Never pay any attention to what critics say," he [Sibelius] proceeded, 

and expatiated on this theme. When I ventured to put in the remark that 

their articles might sometimes be of great importance, he cut me short. 

"Remember," he said, "a statue has never been set up in honour of a 

critic!" 

In Bengt de T”rne Sibelius: A Close-Up (1937) ch. 2 

19.61 Walter Sickert 

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1860-1942 

Nothing knits man to man, the Manchester School wisely taught, like the 

frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. 

New Age 28 July 1910 "The Language of Art" 

19.62 Maurice Sigler and Al Hoffman 

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Maurice Sigler 1901-1961

Al Hoffman 1902-1960 

Little man, you've had a busy day. 


19.63 Alan Sillitoe 

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1928- 

The loneliness of the long-distance runner. 


19.64 Frank Silver and Irving Cohn 

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Frank Silver 1892-1960 

Irving Cohn 1898-1961 

Yes! we have no bananas, 

We have no bananas today. 

Yes! We Have No Bananas (1923 song) 

19.65 Georges Simenon 

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1903-1989 

J'ai eu 10,000 femmes depuis l'ƒge de 13 ans et demi. Ce n'‚tait pas du 

tout un vice. Je n'ai aucun vice sexuel, mais j'avais besoin de 

communiquer. 

I have made love to 10,000 women since I was 13-1/2. It wasn't in any way 

vice. I've no sexual vices. But I needed to communicate. 

Interview with Federico Fellini in L'Express 21 Feb. 1977 

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. 

Interview in Paris Review Summer 1955 

19.66 James Simmons 

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1933- 

For every year of life we light 

A candle on your cake 

To mark the simple sort of progress 

Anyone can make, 

And then, to test your nerve or give 

A proper view of death, 

You're asked to blow each light, each year, 

Out with your own breath. 

In the Wilderness and Other Poems (1969) "A Birthday Poem" 

19.67 Paul Simon 

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1942-

And here's to you, Mrs Robinson 

Jesus loves you more than you will know. 

God bless you please, Mrs Robinson 

Heaven holds a place for those who pray. 

Mrs Robinson (1968 song; used in the film The Graduate) 

19.68 Harold Simpson 

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Down in the forest something stirred: 

It was only the note of a bird. 

Down in the Forest (1906 song; music by Landon Ronald) 

19.69 Kirke Simpson 

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[Warren] Harding of Ohio was chosen by a group of men in a smoke-filled 

room early today as Republican candidate for President. 

News report, 12 June 1920 

19.70 N. F. Simpson 

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1919- 

Knocked down a doctor? With an ambulance? How could she? It's a 

contradiction in terms. 

One Way Pendulum (1960) act 1 

19.71 Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake 

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Noble Sissle 1889-1975 

Eubie Blake 1883-1983 

I'm just wild about Harry. 


19.72 C. H. Sisson 

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1914- 

Here lies a civil servant. He was civil 

To everyone, and servant to the devil. 

In The London Zoo (1961) p. 29 

19.73 Dame Edith Sitwell 

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1887-1964 

Jane, Jane, 

Tall as a crane, 

The morning light creaks down again. 

Bucolic Comedies (1923) "Aubade"

The fire was furry as a bear. 

Bucolic Comedies (1923) "Fa‡ade: Dark Song" 

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy 

thinking about myself. 


Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her 

writing. I considered her "a beautiful little knitter." 

Letter to Geoffrey Singleton, 11 July 1955, in John Lehmann and Derek 

Palmer (eds.) Selected Letters (1970) 

Daisy and Lily, 

Lazy and silly, 

Walk by the shore of the wan grassy sea-- 

Talking once more 'neath a swan-bosomed tree. 

Song of the Cold (1948) "Waltz" 

Still falls the Rain-- 

Dark as the world of man, black as our loss-- 

Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails 

Upon the Cross. 

Street Songs (1942) "The Raids, 1940. Night and Dawn" 

Mr [Percy Wyndham] Lewis's pictures appeared, as a very great painter said 

to me, to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove. 

Taken Care Of (1965) ch. 11 

19.74 Sir Osbert Sitwell 

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1892-1969 

The British Bourgeoise 

Is not born, 

And does not die, 

But, if it is ill, 

It has a frightened look in its eyes. 

At the House of Mrs Kinfoot (1921) p. 8 

In reality, killing time 

Is only the name for another of the multifarious ways 

By which Time kills us. 

Poems about People (1958) "Milordo Inglese" 

Educ: during the holidays from Eton. 

Entry in Who's Who (1929) 

19.75 'Red Skelton' (Richard Skelton) 

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1913- 

Well, it only proves what they always say--give the public something they 

want to see, and they'll come out for it. 

Comment on crowds attending the funeral of Harry Cohn on 2 Mar. 1958, in 

Bob Thomas King Cohn (1967) "Foreground" 

19.76 B. F. Skinner 

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1904-1990 

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. 

New Scientist 21 May 1964 

19.77 Elizabeth Smart 

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1913-1986 

By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept. 

Title of book (1945). Cf. Psalm 137:1 

19.78 Alfred Emanuel Smith 

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1873-1944 

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the 

municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard 

Christmas. 

Comment on the New Deal, in New Outlook Dec. 1933 

The crowning climax to the whole situation is the undisputed fact that 

William Randolph Hearst gave him [Ogden Mills] the kiss of death. 

Comment on Hearst's support for Smith's unsuccessful opponent for governor 

of New York State in New York Times 25 Oct. 1926 

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. 

Speech in Albany, 27 June 1933, in New York Times 28 June 1933 

19.79 Sir Cyril Smith 

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1928- 

This place is the longest running farce in the West End. 

Comment to journalists on the House of Commons, July 1973, in Big Cyril 

(1977) ch. 8 

19.80 Dodie Smith 

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1896-1990 

And so I give you our toast. From that young man upstairs who has had the 

impudence to make me a great-uncle, to Mother and Father on their Golden 

Wedding; through four generations of us, and to those who have gone, and 

those who are to come. To the family--that dear octopus from whose 

tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite 

wish to. 

Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120 

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. 

I Capture the Castle (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3 

19.81 Edgar Smith 

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1857-1938 

You may tempt the upper classes 

With your villainous demi-tasses, 

But; Heaven will protect a working-girl! 

Heaven Will Protect the Working-Girl (1909 song; music by A. Baldwin 

Sloane) 

19.82 F. E. Smith (Earl of Birkenhead) 

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1872-1930 

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit 

the Earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this 

aphorism in the records of Somerset House. 

Contemporary Personalities (1924) "Marquess Curzon" 

Judge Willis...after a long wrangle with F. E. Smith, whom by this time he 

must have come to loathe, upon a point of procedure asked plaintively: 

"What do you suppose I am on the Bench for, Mr Smith?" "It is not for me, 

Your Honour, to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of Providence." 

In Second Earl of Birkenhead F. E. The Life of F. E. Smith First Earl of 

Birkenhead (1959 ed.) ch. 9 

Judge: I have read your case, Mr Smith, and I am no wiser now than 

I was when I started. 

Smith: Possibly not, My Lord, but far better informed. 

In Second Earl of Birkenhead F. E. The Life of F. E. Smith First Earl of 

Birkenhead (1959 ed.) ch. 9 

Judge willis: You are extremely offensive, young man. 

F. e. smith: As a matter of fact, we both are, and the only difference 

between us is that I am trying to be, and you can't help it. 

In Second Earl of Birkenhead Frederick Edwin Earl of Birkenhead (1933) 

vol. 1, ch. 9 

Mr justice darling: And who is George Robey? 

F. e. smith: Mr George Robey is the Darling of the music halls, m'lud. 

In A. E. Wilson The Prime Minister of Mirth (1956) ch. 1 

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout 

hearts and sharp swords. 

Rectorial Address, Glasgow University, 7 Nov. 1923, in The Times 8 Nov. 

1923 

19.83 Ian Smith 

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1919- 

Let me say again, I don't believe in black majority rule in Rhodesia--not 

in a thousand years. I believe in blacks and whites working together. 

Broadcast speech, 20 Mar. 1976, in Sunday Times 21 Mar. 1976 

19.84 Logan Pearsall Smith 

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1865-1946

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar 

taste. 

Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature" 

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, 

after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. 


How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! 


How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any 

danger of their coming true! 


There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no 

avail. 


An improper mind is a perpetual feast. 


There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can 

possibly imagine. 

Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death" 

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you 

can't hear what they say? 


The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older 

people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood. 


I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts 

of theirs at all amusing. 


Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is 

no God. 

Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People" 

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the 

proceeds. 


All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just 

as big as they can pay for. 


When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt 

to walk straight into the gutter. 


Married women are kept women, and they are beginning to find it out. 


You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate. 

Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich 

people. 

Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World" 

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the 

rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep 

absolutely sober. 

Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World" 

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. 

Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters" 

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. 

Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters" 

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. 

Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself" 

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy 

it. 

Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself" 

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. 

All Trivia (1933) "Afterthoughts" pt. 5 

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half-jokingly if he had 

discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning, at 

least for me, there is one thing that matters--to set a chime of words 

tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people." 

Cyril Connolly "Logan Pearsall Smith," obituary notice in New Statesman 

9 Mar. 1946 

19.85 Stevie Smith (Florence Margaret Smith) 

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1902-1971 

This Englishwoman is so refined 

She has no bosom and no behind. 

A Good Time was had by All (1937) "This Englishwoman" 

Nobody heard him, the dead man, 

But still he lay moaning: 

I was much further out than you thought 

And not waving but drowning. 

Poor chap, he always loved larking 

And now he's dead 

It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, 

They said. 

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always 

(Still the dead one lay moaning) 

I was much too far out all my life 

And not waving but drowning. 

Not Waving but Drowning (1957) title poem 

People who are always praising the past 

And especially the times of faith as best 

Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages

And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages. 

Not Waving but Drowning (1957) "The Past" 

There you are you see, quite simple. If you cannot have your dear husband 

for a comfort and a delight, for a breadwinner and a crosspatch, for 

a sofa, chair or a hot-water bottle, one can use him as a Cross to be 

Borne. 

Novel on Yellow Page (1936) p. 24 

Oh I am a cat that likes to 

Gallop about doing good. 

Scorpion and Other Poems (1972) "The Galloping Cat" 

I long for the Person from Porlock 

To bring my thoughts to an end, 

I am growing impatient to see him 

I think of him as a friend. 

Selected Poems (1962) "Thoughts about the 'Person from Porlock'" 

Private Means is dead 

God rest his soul, officers and fellow-rankers said. 

Selected Poems (1962) "Private Means is Dead" 

Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? 

She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy 

When I am happy I live and despise writing 

For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting. 

Selected Poems (1964) "My Muse" 

19.86 John Snagge 

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1904- 

His [Snagge's] famous gaffe [in a commentary on the Boat Race] to the 

effect that he couldn't see who was in the lead but it was either Oxford 

or Cambridge he had no recollection of until he heard a recording 

afterwards. 

C. Dodd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (1983) ch. 14 

19.87 C. P. Snow (Baron Snow of Leicester) 

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1905-1980 

The official world, the corridors of power, the dilemmas of conscience and 

egotism--she disliked them all. 

Homecomings (1956) ch. 22 

I believe the intellectual life of the whole of western society is 

increasingly being split into two polar groups... Literary intellectuals 

at one pole--at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the 

physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension. 

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959 Rede Lecture) p. 3 

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the 

standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who 

have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the 

illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have 

asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of

Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. 

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959 Rede Lecture) p. 14 

19.88 Philip Snowden (Viscount Snowden) 

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1864-1937 

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should 

have its old speeches burnt. 

In C. E. Bechofer Roberts ("Ephesian") Philip Snowden (1929) ch. 12 

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party: It is the 

most fantastic and impracticable programme ever put before the electors. 

All the derelict industries are to be taken over by the State, and the 

taxpayer is to shoulder the losses. The banks and financial houses are to 

be placed under national ownership and control, which means, I suppose, 

that they are to be run by a joint committee of the Labour Party and the 

Trades Union Council. Your investments are to be ordered by some board, 

and your foreign investments are to be mobilized to finance this madcap 

policy. This is not Socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad. 

BBC radio election broadcast, 17 Oct. 1931, in The Times 19 Oct. 1931 

19.89 Alexander Solzhenitsyn 

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1918- 

Meanwhile no such thing as INTERNAL AFFAIRS remains on our crowded Earth. 

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his 

business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what 

is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but 

indifferent to what happens in the East. 

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1970, in John B. Dunlop, Richard Haugh and Alexis 

Klimoff (eds.) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Critical Essays and Documentary 

Materials (1974) p. 574 

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins 

to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand 

than Martians. 

(Cancer Ward, 1968) pt. 2, ch. 32 

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away 

from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in 

your power--he's free again. 

(The First Circle, 1968) ch. 17 

Yes, we are still the prisoners of communism, and yet, for us in Russia, 

communism is a dead dog, while for many people in the West it is still 

living lion. 

Broadcast on BBC Russian Service, in Listener 15 Feb. 1979 

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar 

of the State. 

1974 interview, printed in appendix to (The Oak and the Calf, 1975) 

19.90 Anastasio Somoza 

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1925-1980

Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count. 

Reply to accusation of ballot-rigging, in Guardian 17 June 1977 

19.91 Stephen Sondheim 

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1930- 

Everything's coming up roses. 


Send in the clowns. 


19.92 Susan Sontag 

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1933- 

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. 

Evergreen Review Dec. 1964 

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art 

to its content, and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. 

Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable. 

Evergreen Review Dec. 1964 

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and 

eventually in one's own. 

New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974 

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an 

interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly 

stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask. 

New York Review of Books 23 June 1977 

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone 

who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the 

kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good 

passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to 

identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. 

New York Review of Books 26 Jan. 1978 

The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, 

parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of 

women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballet et al, don't redeem what this 

particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the 

cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it alone--its 

ideologies and inventions--which eradicates autonomous civilizations 

wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, 

which now threatens the very existence of life itself. 

Partisan Review Winter 1967, p. 57 

19.93 Donald Soper (Baron Soper) 

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1903- 

The quality of debate [in the House of Lords] is pretty high--and it is,

I think, good evidence of life after death. 

Radio interview, in Listener 17 Aug. 1978 

19.94 Charles Hamilton Sorley 

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1895-1915 

When you see millions of the mouthless dead 

Across your dreams in pale battalions go, 

Say not soft things as other men have said, 

That you'll remember. For you need not so. 

Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know 

It is not curses heaped on each gashed head? 

Marlborough and Other Poems (1916) "A Sonnet" 

19.95 Henry D. Spalding 

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d. 1990 

I like Ike. 

US button badge first used in 1947 when General Eisenhower was seen as 

a potential presidential nominee, in New Republic 27 Oct. 1947 

19.96 Muriel Spark 

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1918- 

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. 

The Comforters (1957) ch. 6 

"I am putting old heads on your young shoulders," Miss Brodie had told 

them at that time, "and all my pupils are the crŠme de la crŠme." 

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) ch. 1 

Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life. 


One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on 

the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may 

occur. You must live it to the full. 


19.97 John Sparrow 

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1906- 

That indefatigable and unsavoury engine of pollution, the dog. 

Letter in The Times 30 Sept. 1975 

19.98 Countess Spencer (Raine Spencer) 

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1929- 

Alas, for our towns and cities. Monstrous carbuncles of concrete have 

erupted in gentle Georgian Squares.

The Spencers on Spas (1983) p. 14. Cf. Prince Charles 50:2 

19.99 Sir Stanley Spencer 

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1891-1959 

Painting is saying "Ta" to God. 

In letter from Spencer's daughter Shirin, Observer 7 Feb. 1988 

19.100 Stephen Spender 

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1909- 

Never being, but always at the edge of Being. 

Poems (1933) no. 10 

My parents kept me from children who were rough 

And who threw words like stones and who wore torn clothes. 

Poems (1933) no. 12 

What I had not foreseen 

Was the gradual day 

Weakening the will 

Leaking the brightness away. 

Poems (1933) no. 13 

Who live under the shadow of a war, 

What can I do that matters? 

Poems (1933) no. 17 

The names of those who in their lives fought for life 

Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. 

Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun, 

And left the vivid air signed with their honour. 

Poems (1933) no. 23 "I think continually of those who were truly great" 

After the first powerful plain manifesto 

The black statement of pistons, without more fuss 

But gliding like a queen, she leaves the station. 

Poems (1933) no. 26 "The Express" 

Now over these small hills they have built the concrete 

That trails black wire: 

Pylons, those pillars 

Bare like nude, giant girls that have no secret. 

Poems (1933) no. 28 "The Pylons" 

Consider: only one bullet in ten thousand kills a man. 

Ask: was so much expenditure justified 

On the death of one so young and so silly 

Stretched under the olive trees, Oh, world, Oh, death? 

Stephen Spender and John Lehmann (eds.) Poems for Spain (1939) "Regum 

Ultimo Ratio" 

...their collected 

Hearts wound up with love, like little watch springs. 

Still Centre (1939) "The Past Values"

People sometimes divide others into those you laugh at and those you laugh 

with. The young Auden was someone you could laugh-at-with. 

W. H. Auden (address delivered at Auden's memorial service at Christ 

Church Cathedral, Oxford, 27 Oct. 1973) 

19.101 Oswald Spengler 

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Der Sozialismus ist nichts als der Kapitalismus der Unterklasse. 

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. 

Jahre der Entscheidung (The Hour of Decision, 1933) pt. 1 

19.102 Steven Spielberg 

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1947- 

Close encounters of the third kind. 


19.103 Dr Benjamin Spock 

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1903- 

You know more than you think you do. 

Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946) [later Baby and Child 

Care ], opening words 

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation. 

Dr Spock on Vietnam (1968) ch. 7 

19.104 William Archibald Spooner 

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1844-1930 

Mr Spooner has a habit of transferring his syllables, so that it is no 

unusual experience for the members of New College to hear their late Dean 

give out in chapel a well-known sentence in the unintelligible guise of 

"Kinkering Kongs their tykles tate." 

Echo 4 May 1892 

A famous New College personality...was Warden Spooner.... "You have tasted 

your worm," he is reputed to have said to an undergraduate, "you have 

hissed my mystery lectures, and you must leave by the first town drain." 

He was also responsible for proposing a toast to "our queer old dean." 

Oxford University What's What (1948) p. 8 (William Hayter in Spooner 

(1977) ch. 6 maintains these sayings are apocryphal) 

Mr Huxley assures me that it's no farther from the north coast of 

Spitzbergen to the North Pole than it is from Land's End to John of Gaunt. 

Julian Huxley in SEAC (Calcutta) 27 Feb. 1944 

You will find as you grow older that the weight of rages will press harder 

and harder upon the employer. 

In William Hayter Spooner (1977) ch. 6

Poor soul, very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death--eaten 

by missionaries--poor soul! 

In William Hayter Spooner (1977) ch. 6 

19.105 Sir Cecil Spring Rice 

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1859-1918 

I vow to thee, my country--all earthly things above-- 

Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love, 

The love that asks no question: the love that stands the test, 

That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best: 

The love that never falters, the love that pays the price, 

The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice. 

Poems (1920) "I Vow to Thee, My Country" 

And there's another country, I've heard of long ago-- 

Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know. 


And her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are Peace. 


I am the Dean of Christ Church, Sir: 

There's my wife; look well at her. 

She's the Broad and I'm the High; 

We are the University. 

The Masque of Balliol in W. G. Hiscock (ed.) The Balliol Rhymes (1939) 

p. 29 

19.106 Bruce Springsteen 

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1949- 

We gotta get out while we're young, 

'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. 

Born to Run (1975 song) 

19.107 Sir J. C. Squire 

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1884-1958 

But I'm not so think as you drunk I am. 

M. Baring et al. One Hundred and One Ballades (1931 "Ballade of Soporific 

Absorption" 

It did not last: the Devil howling "Ho! 

Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo. 

Poems (1926) "In continuation of Pope on Newton." Cf. Oxford Dictionary 

of Quotations (1979) 378:7 

19.108 Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) 

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1879-1953

The State is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break 

the resistance of the adversaries of that class. 

Foundations of Leninism (1924) section 4/6 

Mr Churchill, Mr Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say the Pope 

had? 

At the Potsdam Conference, reported by Harry S. Truman in speech to 

American Association for the Advancement of Science, in New York Times 

14 Sept. 1948, p. 24 (reporting Stalin's reaction to Churchill's 

statement that the Pope would not like the Communists to take over the 

Catholic part of Poland) 

First of all there is the question: Can Socialism possibly be established 

in one country alone by that country's unaided strength? The question 

must be answered in the affirmative. 

Problems of Leninism (1926) ch. 6 

19.109 Charles E. Stanton 

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1859-1933 

Lafayette, nous voila! 

Lafayette, we are here. 

At the tomb of Lafayette in Paris, 4 July 1917, in New York Tribune 

6 Sept. 1917 

19.110 Frank L. Stanton 

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1857-1927 

Sweetes' li'l' feller, 

Everybody knows; 

Dunno what to call him, 

But he's mighty lak' a rose! 

Mighty Lak' a Rose (1901 song; music by Ethelbert Nevin) 

19.111 Dame Freya Stark 

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1893- 

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can 

always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. 

The Valleys of the Assassins (1934) ch. 2 

19.112 Enid Starkie 

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1897-1970 

Unhurt people are not much good in the world. 

Letter, 18 June 1943, in Joanna Richardson Enid Starkie (1973) pt. 6, 

ch. 18 

19.113 Christina Stead 

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1902-1983 

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among 

themselves there wouldn't be enough to go round. 

House of All Nations (1938) "Credo" 

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford. 

House of All Nations (1938) "Credo" 

19.114 Sir David Steel 

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1938- 

I have the good fortune to be the first Liberal leader for over half 

a century who is able to say to you at the end of our annual assembly: go 

back to your constituencies and prepare for government. 

Speech at Liberal Party Assembly, Llandudno, 18 Sept. 1981, in The Times 

19 Sept. 1981 

19.115 Lincoln Steffens 

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1866-1936 

I have seen the future; and it works. 

Letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919, in Letters (1938) vol. 1, p. 463 

(describing a visit to the Soviet Union in 1919; cf. Steffens's 

Autobiography (1931) ch. 18: "So you've been over into Russia?" said 

Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, "I have been over into the 

future, and it works") 

19.116 Gertrude Stein 

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1874-1946 

Hemingway...brought the manuscript he intended sending to America. He 

handed it to Gertrude Stein. He had added to his stories a little story of 

meditations and in these he said that The Enormous Room was the greatest 

book he had ever read. It was then that Gertrude Stein said, Hemingway, 

remarks are not literature. 

Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) ch. 7 

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much. 

Said of Ernest Hemingway in James R. Mellow Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein 

and Company (1974) ch. 16 

Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all 

considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very 

frightening. 

Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2 

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much 

doing nothing, really doing nothing. 


What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have 

come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not 

there, there is no there there.


Ezra Pound failed to impress her [Stein].... She said he was a village 

explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not. 

Janet Hobhouse Everyone who was Anybody (1975) ch. 6 

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to 

take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle. 

Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (1971) "Q.E.D." (1903) bk. 1 

Pigeons on the grass alas. 

Four Saints in Three Acts (1934) act 3, sc. 2 

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where 

anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. 

The Geographical History of America (1936) 

Just before she [Stein] died she asked, "What is the answer?" No answer 

came. She laughed and said, "In that case what is the question?" Then she 

died. 

Donald Sutherland Gertrude Stein, A Biography of her Work (1951) ch. 6 

Disillusionment in living is the finding out nobody agrees with you not 

those that are and were fighting with you. Disillusionment in living is 

the finding out nobody agrees with you not those that are fighting for 

you. Complete disillusionment is when you realise that no one can for they 

can't change. 

Making of Americans (1934) ch. 5 

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, is a rose. 

Sacred Emily (1913) p. 187 

You are all a lost generation. 

In Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises (1926) epigraph (Gertrude Stein 

heard the phrase "a lost generation" (une g‚n‚ration perdue) from a French 

garage-owner: see James R. Mellow Charmed Circle (1974) ch. 10) 

19.117 John Steinbeck 

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1902-1968 

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows 

beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his 

accomplishments. 

Grapes of Wrath (1939) ch. 14 

I know this--a man got to do what he got to do. 


Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty 

son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you're scum. Don't mean nothing itself, it's 

the way they say it. 


19.118 Gloria Steinem 

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1934-

Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry. 

Ms July/Aug. 1982 

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. 

Attributed 

19.119 James Stephens 

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1882-1950 

Women are stronger than men--they do not die of wisdom. 

They are better than men because they do not seek wisdom. 

They are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. 

The Crock of Gold (1912) bk. 1, ch. 2 

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. 

Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. 

The Crock of Gold (1912) bk. 1, ch. 4 

I hear a sudden cry of pain! 

There is a rabbit in a snare: 

Now I hear the cry again, 

But I cannot tell from where.... 

Little one! Oh, little one! 

I am searching everywhere. 

Songs from the City (1915) "The Snare" 

19.120 Andrew B. Sterling 

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1874-1955 

Wait till the sun shines, Nellie, 

When the clouds go drifting by. 

Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1905 song; music by Harry von Tilzer) 

19.121 Wallace Stevens 

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1879-1955 

Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. 

Harmonium (1923) "A High-Toned old Christian Woman" 

Call the roller of big cigars, 

The muscular one, and bid him whip 

In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. 

Let the wenches dawdle in such dress 

As they are used to wear, and let the boys 

Bring flowers in last month's newspapers. 

Let be be finale of seem. 

The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. 

Harmonium (1923) "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" 

Complacencies of the peignoir, and late 

Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, 

And the green freedom of a cockatoo 

Upon a rug mingle to dissipate 

The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.

Harmonium (1923) "Sunday Morning, I" 

Just as my fingers on these keys 

Make music, so the self-same sounds 

On my spirit make a music, too. 

Music is feeling, then, not sound; 

And thus it is that what I feel, 

Here in this room, desiring you, 

Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk, 

Is music. 

Harmonium (1923) "Peter Quince at the Clavier" pt. 1 

Beauty is momentary in the mind-- 

The fitful tracing of a portal; 

But in the flesh it is immortal. 

The body dies; the body's beauty lives. 

Harmonium (1923) "Peter Quince at the Clavier" pt. 4 

I do not know which to prefer, 

The beauty of inflections 

Or the beauty of innuendoes, 

The blackbird whistling 

Or just after. 

Harmonium (1923) "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" 

The man bent over his guitar, 

A shearsman of sorts. The day was green. 

They said, "You have a blue guitar, 

You do not play things as they are." 

The man replied, "Things as they are 

Are changed upon the blue guitar." 

The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937) title poem 

They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. 

We shall return at twilight from the lecture 

Pleased that the irrational is rational. 

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942) "It must give Pleasure" 

The poet is the priest of the invisible. 

Opus Posthumous (1957) "Adagia" 

19.122 Adlai Stevenson 

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1900-1965 

I suppose flattery hurts no one, that is, if he doesn't inhale. 

TV broadcast, 30 Mar. 1952, in N. F. Busch Adlai E. Stevenson (1952) ch. 5 

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican 

friends...that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will 

stop telling the truth about them. 

Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign, in J. B. Martin Adlai Stevenson 

and Illinois (1976) ch. 8 

We must be patient--making peace is harder than making war. 

Speech to Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 21 Mar. 1946, in Chicago 

Daily News 22 Mar. 1946

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the 

risks he takes! 

Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952, in Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai 

E. Stevenson; 1952 (1953) p. 174 

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be 

unpopular. 

Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952, in Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. 

Stevenson; 1952 (1953) p. 218 

We hear the Secretary of State [John Foster Dulles] boasting of his 

brinkmanship--the art of bringing us to the edge of the abyss. 

Speech in Hartford, Connecticut, 25 Feb. 1956, in New York Times 26 Feb. 

1956, p. 64 

She [Eleanor Roosevelt] would rather light a candle than curse the 

darkness, and her glow has warmed the world. 

Comment on learning of Mrs Roosevelt's death, in New York Times 8 Nov. 

1962 

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House. 

Speech in Washington, 13 Dec. 1952 (after his defeat in the Presidential 

election), in Alden Whitman Portrait: Adlai E. Stevenson (1965) ch. 1 

Let's face it. Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them 

the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the 

eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you're 

attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure 

triumph over the great enemies of man--war, poverty and tyranny--and the 

assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of 

each. 

Speech of Acceptance at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 

Illinois, 26 July 1952, in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952) p. 20 

A hungry man is not a free man. 

Speech at Kasson, Minnesota, 6 Sept. 1952, in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson 

(1952) "Farm Policy" 

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. 

Speech at Hartford, Connecticut, 18 Sept. 1952, in Speeches of Adlai 

Stevenson (1952) "The Atomic Future" 

It reminds me of the small boy who jumbled his biblical quotations and 

said: "A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in 

trouble." 

In Bill Adler The Stevenson Wit (1966) p. 84 (cf. Proverbs 12:22, Psalms 

46:1) 

19.123 Anne Stevenson 

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1933- 

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms. 

minute by Glass Minute (1982) "Green Mountain, Black Mountain" 

19.124 Caskie Stinnett 

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1911-

A diplomat...is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that 

you actually look forward to the trip. 

Out of the Red (1960) ch. 4 

19.125 Rt. Revd Mervyn Stockwood 

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1913- 

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-BergŠre and looks at the 

audience. 


19.126 Tom Stoppard 

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1937- 

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. 

Jumpers (1972) act 1 

My problem is that I am not frightfully interested in anything, except 

myself. And of all forms of fiction autobiography is the most gratuitous. 

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966) pt. 2 

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to 

subscribe--responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch 

throughout the ages. 

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966) pt. 6. Cf. Rudyard Kipling 

A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and 

corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. 

Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks 

that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has 

arrived to cover it. 

Night and Day (1978) act 1 

Wagner: You don't care much for the media, do you, Ruth? 

Ruth: The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. 

Carson: Ruth has mixed feelings about reporters. 


Milne: No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press 

everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. 

Ruth: I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't 

stand. 


We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of 

integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. 

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 1 

Guildenstern: Well then--one of the Greeks, perhaps? You're familiar 

with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? 

Matri, patri, sorori, uxori and it goes without saying--suicidal--hm? 

Maidens aspiring to godheads-- 

Rosencrantz: And vice versa. 

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 1

I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and 

I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and 

I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but 

I can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. 

Blood is compulsory--they're all blood, you see. 


To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come 

back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother 

popped onto his throne and into his sheets, thereby offending both legal 

and natural practice. Now why exactly are you behaving in this 

extraordinary manner? 


We're actors--we're the opposite of people. Think, in your head, now, 

think of the most...private...secret...intimate thing you have ever done 

secure in the knowledge of its privacy.... Are you thinking of it?... 

Well, I saw you do it! 


Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? 


The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. 

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 2. Cf. Oxford Dictionary 

of Quotations (1979) 573:3 

Life is a gamble at terrible odds--if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it. 


I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of 

its passengers to shove it. 

Times Literary Supplement 3 June 1977 

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but 

they go to war because they don't want to be a hero. 

Travesties (1975) act 1 

19.127 Lytton Strachey 

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1880-1932 

[Samuel] Johnson's aesthetic judgements are almost invariably subtle, or 

solid, or bold; they have always some good quality to recommend 

them--except one: they are never right. 

Books and Characters (1922) "Lives of the Poets" 

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much 

about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the 

historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and 

omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. 

Eminent Victorians (1918) preface 

The time was out of joint, and he [Hurrell Froude] was only too delighted 

to have been born to set it right. 

Eminent Victorians (1918) "Cardinal Manning" pt. 2. Cf. Oxford 


Miss Nightingale, however, with all her experience of public life, never

stopped to consider the question whether God might not be a Limited 

Monarchy. Yet her conception of God was certainly not orthodox. She felt 

towards Him as she might have felt towards a glorified sanitary engineer; 

and in some of her speculations she seems hardly to distinguish between 

the Deity and the Drains. 

Eminent Victorians (1918) "Florence Nightingale" pt. 4 

His legs, perhaps, were shorter than they should have been. 

Eminent Victorians (1918) "Dr Arnold" 

Asked by the chairman [of a military tribunal] the usual question: "I 

understand, Mr Strachey, that you have a conscientious objection to war?" 

he replied (in his curious falsetto voice), "Oh no, not at all, only to 

this war." Better than this was his reply to the chairman's other stock 

question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant. 

"Tell me, Mr Strachey, what would you do if you saw a German soldier 

trying to violate your sister?" With an air of noble virtue: "I would try 

to get between them." 

Robert Graves Good-bye to All That (1929) ch. 23 

Discretion is not the better part of biography. 

In Michael Holroyd Lytton Strachey vol. 1 (1967) preface 

He [Max Beerbohm] has the most remarkable and seductive genius--and 

I should say about the smallest in the world. 

Letter to Clive Bell, 4 Dec. 1917, in Michael Holroyd Lytton Strachey 

vol. 2 (1968) pt. 1, ch. 5 

"If this is dying," he remarked quietly, just before falling into 

unconsciousness, "then I don't think much of it." 

Michael Holroyd Lytton Strachey vol. 2, (1968) pt. 2, ch. 6 

19.128 Igor Stravinsky 

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1882-1971 

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at 

all...music expresses itself. 

In Esquire Dec. 1972 

My music is best understood by children and animals. 


A good composer does not imitate; he steals. 

In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. 

Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1 

19.129 Simeon Strunsky 

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1879-1948 

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the 

library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. 

No Mean City (1944) ch. 2 

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. 

No Mean City (1944) ch. 38

19.130 G. A. Studdert Kennedy 

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1883-1929 

Waste of Muscle, waste of Brain, 

Waste of Patience, waste of Pain, 

Waste of Manhood, waste of Health, 

Waste of Beauty, waste of Wealth, 

Waste of Blood, and waste of Tears, 

Waste of youth's most precious years, 

Waste of ways the saints have trod, 

Waste of Glory, waste of God, 

War! 

More Rough Rhymes of a Padre by "Woodbine Willie" (1919) "Waste" 

When Jesus came to Golgotha they hanged Him on a tree, 

They drave great nails through hands and feet, and made a Calvary. 

They crowned Him with a crown of thorns, red were His wounds and deep, 

For those were crude and cruel days, and human flesh was cheap. 

When Jesus came to Birmingham they simply passed Him by, 

They never hurt a hair of Him, they only let Him die. 

For men had grown more tender and they would not give Him pain, 

They only just passed down the street, and left Him in the rain. 

Peace Rhymes of a Padre (1921) "Indifference" 

19.131 Terry Sullivan 

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She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore, 

The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure, 

For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore, 

Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells. 

She Sells Sea-Shells (1908 song; music by Harry Gifford) 

19.132 Arthur Hays Sulzberger 

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1891- 

We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public 

will take care of the cat. 

Time 8 May 1950 

19.133 Edith Summerskill 

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1901-1980 

The housewife is the Cinderella of the affluent state.... She is wholly 

dependent on the whim of an individual to give her money for the 

essentials of life. If she complains she is a nagger--for nagging is the 

repetition of unpalatable truths. 

Speech to Married Women's Association, House of Commons, 14 July 1960, in 

The Times 15 July 1960 

19.134 Jacqueline Susann (Mrs Irving Mansfield) 

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Valley of the dolls. 


19.135 Hannen Swaffer 

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1879-1962 

Perhaps it was about now [circa.1902] that he [Swaffer] began to formulate 

a dictum which, though not always attributed to him, has often been quoted 

(among others, by witnesses before the first Royal Commssion on the 

Press): "Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of 

the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to." 

Tom Driberg Swaff (1974) ch. 2 

19.136 Herbert Bayard Swope 

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1882-1958 

The First Duty of a newspaper is to be Accurate. If it is Accurate, it 

follows that it is Fair. 

Letter to New York Herald Tribune 16 Mar. 1958 

He [Swope] enunciated no rules for success, but offered a sure formula for 

failure: Just try to please everyone. 

In E. J. Kahn Jr. World of Swope (1965) p. 7 See also Bernard Baruch 

(2.27) 

19.137 Eric Sykes and Max Bygraves 

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1922- 

Eric Sykes had this quick ear and could tell by any inflection I put into 

a line how to make it a catch phrase--at one time I had more catch phrases 

than I could handle. I had the whole country saying things like "I've 

arrived and to prove it I'm here!" "A good idea--son" "Bighead!" "Dollar 

lolly." 

Max Bygraves I Wanna Tell You a Story! (1976) p. 96 (describing 

catch-phrases on Educating Archie, 1950-3 BBC radio comedy series) 

19.138 John Millington Synge 

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1871-1909 

"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded," he said "for 

he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the 

sea, and we do only be drownded now and again." 

Aran Islands (1907) pt. 2 

"A translation is no translation," he said, "unless it will give you the 

music of a poem along with the words of it." 

Aran Islands (1907) pt. 3 

When I was writing "The Shadow of the Glen," some years ago, I got more 

aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the

old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being 

said by the servant girls in the kitchen. 

Playboy of the Western World (1907) preface 

Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the 

Western World. 

Playboy of the Western World (1907) act 3 (last lines) 

19.139 Thomas Szasz 

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1920- 

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to 

be right but also to be wrong. 

The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood" 

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth 

century, it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. 

The Second Sin (1973) "Sex" 

Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein 

perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we 

make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women 

together. 

The Second Sin (1973) "Sex" 

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the 

living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by 

children to adults. 

The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions" 

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na‹ve forgive and forget; the 

wise forgive but do not forget. 

The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct" 

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. 

The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations" 

If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have 

schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God 

talks to you, you are a schizophrenic. 

The Second Sin (1973) "Schizophrenia" 

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for 

medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake 

medicine for magic. 

The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism" 

19.140 George Szell 

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the 

orchestra--not choreography to the audience. 

Newsweek 28 Jan. 1963 

19.141 Albert von Szent-Gy”rgyi 

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1893-1986 

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what 

nobody has thought. 

In Irving Good (ed.) The Scientist Speculates (1962) p. 15 

20.0 T 

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20.1 Sir Rabindranath Tagore 

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1861-1941 

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand 

With a grip that kills it. 

Fireflies (1928) p. 29 

20.2 Nellie Talbot 

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Jesus wants me for a sunbeam. 

Title of hymn (1921), in CSSM Choruses No. 1 

20.3 S. G. Tallentyre (E. Beatrice Hall) 

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1868- 

"On the Mind" [De l'Esprit] became not the success of the season, but one 

of the most famous books of the century. The men who had hated it, and had 

not particularly loved Helv‚tius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave 

him all injuries, intentional or unintentional.... "I disapprove of what 

you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," was his 

attitude now. 

The Friends of Voltaire (1906) ch. 7 (often attributed to Voltaire but 

not found in his works) 

20.4 Booth Tarkington 

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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one 

of them is that he has taken to drink. 

Penrod (1914) ch. 10 

20.5 A. J. P. Taylor 

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1906-1990 

He [Lord Northcliffe] aspired to power instead of influence, and as 

a result forfeited both. 

English History, 1914-1945 (1965) ch. 1

Communism continued to haunt Europe as a spectre--a name men gave to their 

own fears and blunders. But the crusade against Communism was even more 

imaginary than the spectre of Communism. 

Origins of the Second World War (1962) ch. 2 

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do 

well for his clients. 

Origins of the Second World War (1962) ch. 7 

20.6 Bert Leston Taylor 

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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. 

The So-Called Human Race (1922) p. 163 

20.7 Norman Tebbit 

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1931- 

We cannot ignore the price that unemployment today is exacting from the 

failures of the past. I have known about these things. I grew up in the 

Thirties with our unemployed father. He did not riot, he got on his bike 

and looked for work. 

Speech at Conservative Party Conference, 15 Oct. 1981, in Daily Telegraph 

16 Oct. 1981 

20.8 Archbishop William Temple 

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1881-1944 

In place of the conception of the power-state we are led to that of the 

welfare-state. 

Citizen and Churchman (1941) ch. 2 

It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned 

with religion. 

In R. V. C. Bodley In Search of Serenity (1955) ch. 12 

Christianity is the most materialistic of all great religions. 

Readings in St John's Gospel vol. 1 (1939) introduction 

20.9 A. S. J. Tessimond 

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1902-1962 

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, 

Offer no angles to the wind. 

They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes 

Less than themselves. 

Cats (1934) p. 20 

20.10 Margaret Thatcher 

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1925-

We have to get our production and our earnings into balance. There's no 

easy popularity in what we are proposing, but it is fundamentally sound. 

Yet I believe people accept there is no real alternative. 

Speech at Conservative Women's Conference, 21 May 1980, in Daily Telegraph 

22 May 1980 

A triumphant Prime Minister declared "Rejoice, rejoice" last night.... 

"Let us congratulate our armed forces and the Marines," she added. 

On recapture of South Georgia, 25 Apr. 1982, Daily Telegraph 26 Apr. 1982 

In church on Sunday morning--it was a lovely morning and we haven't had 

many lovely days--the sun was coming through a stained glass window and 

falling on some flowers, falling right across the church. It just occurred 

to me that this was the day I was meant not to see. Then all of a sudden 

I thought, "there are some of my dearest friends who are not seeing this 

day." 

Television interview, 15 Oct. 1984, after the Brighton bombing, in Daily 

Telegraph 16 Oct. 1984 

We're going to be rather lucky to be living at a time when you get the 

turn of the thousand years and we really ought to set Britain's course for 

the next century as well as this.... Yes, I hope to go on and on. 

Television interview, 11 May 1987, in Independent 12 May 1987 

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say. 


I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. 


Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my red chiffon evening 

gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved...the Iron Lady of 

the Western World! Me? A cold war warrior? Well, yes--if that is how they 

wish to interpret my defence of values and freedoms fundamental to our way 

of life. 

Speech at Finchley, 31 Jan. 1976, in Sunday Times 1 Feb. 1976 

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said 

straight out I was. And I am. 

Speech to British Jewish Community, 21 July 1983, in M. Mc Fadyean & M. 

Renn Thatcher's Reign (1984) p. 114 

We shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting with bated 

breath for that favourite media catch-phrase, the U-turn, I have only this 

to say. "You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning." 

Speech at Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, 10 Oct. 1980, in The 


Let me make one thing absolutely clear. The National Health Service is 

safe with us. 

Speech at Conservative party Conference, 8 Oct. 1982, in The Times 9 Oct. 

1982 

The Prime Minister [Mrs Thatcher] said yesterday that she liked Mr 

Gorbachev--"we can do business together"--and that she was cautiously 

optimistic for detente and world peace in the new year. 

The Times 18 Dec. 1984 

We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the

oxygen of publicity on which they depend. 

Speech to American Bar Association in London, 15 July 1985, in The Times 

16 July 1985 

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. 

He had money as well. 

Television interview, 6 Jan. 1986, in The Times 12 Jan. 1986 

Mrs Margaret Thatcher informed the world with regal panache yesterday that 

her daughter-in-law had given birth to a son. "We have become a 

grandmother," the Prime Minister said. 

The Times 4 Mar. 1989 

There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and 

there are families. 

Woman's Own 31 Oct. 1987 

20.11 Sam Theard and Fleecie Moore 

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Let the good times roll. 


20.12 Diane Thomas 

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Romancing the stone. 


20.13 Dylan Thomas 

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1914-1953 

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town 

corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices 

I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether 

it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it 

snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. 

A Child's Christmas in Wales (1954) p. 5 

Years and years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in 

Wales, and birds the colour of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the 

harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves 

that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlours, and we 

chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before 

the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we 

rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed. 

A Child's Christmas in Wales (1954) p. 11 

Do not go gentle into that good night, 

Old age should burn and rave at close of day; 

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 

Collected poems (1952) "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" 

After the first death, there is no other. 

Deaths and Entrances (1946) "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of 

a Child in London"

It was my thirtieth year to heaven 

Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood 

And the mussel pooled and the heron 

Priested shore. 

The morning beckon. 

Deaths and Entrances (1946) "Poem in October" 

Pale rain over the dwindling harbour 

And over the sea wet church the size of a snail 

With its horns through mist and the castle 

Brown as owls 

But all the gardens 

Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall vales 

Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud. 

There could I marvel 

My birthday 

Away but the weather turned around. 

Deaths and Entrances (1946) "Poem in October" 

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs 

About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green. 

Deaths and Entrances (1946) "Fern Hill" 

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, 

Time held me green and dying 

Though I sang in my chains like the sea. 

Deaths and Entrances (1946) "Fern Hill" 

The land of my fathers [Wales]. My fathers can have it. 

In Adam Dec. 1953 

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower 

Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees 

Is my destroyer. 

And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose 

My youth is bent by the same wintry fever. 

18 Poems (1934) "The Force that through the Green Fuse drives the Flower" 

Light breaks where no sun shines; 

Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart 

Push in their tides. 

18 Poems (1934) "Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines" 

Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. "Somebody's boring me," he said, "I 

think it's me." 

Rayner Heppenstall Four Absentees (1960) ch. 16 

Dylan himself once defined an alcoholic as a man you don't like who drinks 

as much as you do. 

Constantine Fitzgibbon Life of Dylan Thomas (1965) ch. 6 

Portrait of the artist as a young dog. 

Title of book (1940); cf. James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young 

Man (1916) 

Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the 

position of the artists of Wales. There is only one position for an 

artist anywhere: and that is, upright. 

Quite Early One Morning (1954) pt. 2 "Wales and the Artist"

The hand that signed the paper felled a city; 

Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, 

Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; 

These five kings did a king to death. 

25 Poems (1936) "The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City" 

The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, 

And famine grew, and locusts came; 

Great is the hand that holds dominion over 

Man by a scribbled name. 

25 Poems (1936) "The Hand That Signed the Paper Felled a City" 

Though they go mad they shall be sane, 

Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; 

Though lovers be lost love shall not; 

And death shall have no dominion. 

25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9 

To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, 

starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched 

courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, 

black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. 

Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 1 

Mr pritchard: I must dust the blinds and then I must raise them. 

Mrs ogmore-pritchard: And before you let the sun in, mind it wipes its 

shoes. 


Alone until she dies, Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse, 

smelling of the cowshed, snores bass and gruff on a couch of straw in 

a loft in Salt Lake Farm and picks a posy of daisies in Sunday Meadow to 

put on the grave of Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she 

wasn't looking and never kissed her again although she was looking all the 

time. 


Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden 

to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And 

babies. And where's their fathers live, my love? Over the hills and far 

away. You're looking up at me now. I know what you're thinking, you poor 

little milky creature. You're thinking, you're no better than you should 

be, Polly, and that's good enough for me. Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, 

thank God? 


Mae rose cottage: I'm fast. I'm a bad lot. God will strike me dead. 

I'm seventeen. I'll go to hell. 

Second voice: She tells the goats. 

Mae rose cottage: You just wait. I'll sin till I blow up! 

Second voice: She lies deep, waiting for the worst to happen; the goats 

champ and sneer. 


20.14 Edward Thomas 

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1878-1917

Out in the dark over the snow 

The fallow fawns invisible go 

With the fallow doe; 

And the winds blow 

Fast as the stars are slow. 

Last Poems (1918) "Out in the Dark" 

If I should ever by chance grow rich 

I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch, 

Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater, 

And let them all to my elder daughter. 

Poems (1917) "If I Should Ever By Chance" 

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. 

Poems (1917) "Early One Morning" 

Yes; I remember Adlestrop-- 

The name, because one afternoon 

Of heat the express-train drew up there 

Unwontedly. It was late June. 

Poems (1917) "Adlestrop" 

As well as any bloom upon a flower 

I like the dust on the nettles, never lost 

Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. 

Poems (1917) "Tall Nettles" 

I have come to the borders of sleep, 

The unfathomable deep 

Forest where all must lose 

Their way, however straight 

Or winding, soon or late; 

They can not choose. 

Poems (1917) "Lights Out" 

20.15 Gwyn Thomas 

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1913- 

There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a 

striped shroud. 

Punch 18 June 1958 

20.16 Francis Thompson 

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1859-1907 

Wake! for the Ruddy Ball has taken flight 

That scatters the slow Wicket of the Night; 

And the swift Batsman of the Dawn has driven 

Against the Star-spiked Rails a fiery smite. 

"Wake! for the Ruddy Ball has Taken Flight" (parody of Edward Fitzgerald) 

in J. C. Squire Apes and Parrots (1929) p. 173 

The fairest things have fleetest end, 

Their scent survives their close: 

But the rose's scent is bitterness 

To him that loved the rose!

Poems (1913) vol. 1 "Daisy" 

She went her unremembering way, 

She went and left in me 

The pang of all the partings gone, 

And partings yet to be. 

She left me marvelling why my soul 

Was sad that she was glad; 

At all the sadness in the sweet, 

The sweetness in the sad. 


Nothing begins, and nothing ends, 

That is not paid with moan; 

For we are born in other's pain, 

And perish in our own. 


Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, 

And left the flushed print in a poppy there. 

Poems (1913) vol. 1 "The Poppy" 

The sleep-flower sways in the wheat its head, 

Heavy with dreams, as that with bread: 

The goodly grain and the sun-flushed sleeper 

The reaper reaps, and Time the reaper. 

I hang 'mid men my needless head, 

And my fruit is dreams, as theirs is bread: 

The goodly men and the sun-hazed sleeper 

Time shall reap, but after the reaper 

The world shall glean of me, me the sleeper. 

Poems (1913) vol. 1 "The Poppy" 

Look for me in the nurseries of heaven. 

Poems (1913) vol. 1 "To My Godchild Francis M.W.M." 

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; 

I fled Him, down the arches of the years; 

I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways 

Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears 

I hid from Him, and under running laughter. 

Poems (1913) vol. 1 "Hound of Heaven" pt. 1 

But with unhurrying chase, 

And unperturbŠd pace, 

Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, 

They beat--and a Voice beat 

More instant than the Feet-- 

All things betray thee, who betrayest Me. 


For, though I knew His love Who followŠd, Yet was I sore adread 

Lest, having Him, I must have naught beside. 


Fear wist not to evade, as Love wist to pursue. 


I said to Dawn: Be sudden--to Eve : 

Be soon.


To all swift things for swiftness did I sue; 

Clung to the whistling mane of every wind. 


Still with unhurrying chase, 

And unperturbŠd pace, 

Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, 

Came on the following Feet, 

And a Voice above their beat-- 

"Naught shelters thee, who wilt not shelter Me." 


I was heavy with the even, 

When she lit her glimmering tapers 

Round the day's dead sanctities. 


My harness piece by piece Thou hast hewn from me, 

And smitten me to my knee. 


Yea, faileth now even dream 

The dreamer, and the lute the lutanist; 

Even the linked fantasies, in whose blossomy twist 

I swung the earth a trinket at my wrist. 


Ah! must-- 

Designer infinite!-- 

Ah! must Thou char the wood ere Thou canst limm with it? 


Such is: what is to be? 

The pulp so bitter, how shall taste the rind? 


Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds 

From the hid battlements of Eternity; 

Those shaken mists a space unsettle, then 

Round the half-glimpsŠd turrets slowly wash again. 


Now of that long pursuit 

Comes on at hand the bruit; 

That Voice is round me like a bursting sea : 

"And is thy earth so marred, 

Shattered in shard on shard? 

Lo, all things fly thee, for thou fliest Me!" 


All which I took from thee I did but take, 

Not for thy harms, 

But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms. 


Halts by me that footfall : 

Is my gloom, after all, 

Shade of His hand, outstretched caressingly?

"Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest, 

I am He whom thou seekest! 

Thou dravest love from thee, who dravest Me." 


And thou--what needest with thy tribe's black tents 

Who hast the red pavilion of my heart? 

Poems (1913) vol. 1 "Arab Love-Song" 

It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, 

Though my own red roses there may blow; 

It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, 

Though the red roses crest the caps I know. 

For the field is full of shades as I near the shadowy coast, 

And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost, 

And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host 

As the run-stealers flicker to and fro, 

To and fro:-- 

O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago! 

Poems (1913) vol. 1 "At Lord's" 

There is no expeditious road 

To pack and label men for God, 

And save them by the barrel-load. 

Some may perchance, with strange surprise, 

Have blundered into Paradise. 

Poems (1913) vol. 1 "Epilogue to 'A Judgement in Heaven'" 

Go, songs, for ended is our brief, sweet play; 

Go, children of swift joy and tardy sorrow: 

And some are sung, and that was yesterday, 

And some unsung, and that may be to-morrow. 

Poems (1913) vol. 1 "Envoy" 

Ah, for a heart less native to high Heaven, 

A hooded eye, for jesses and restraint, 

Or for a will accipitrine to pursue! 

Poems (1913) vol. 2 "Dread of Height" 

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, 

And all things are made young with young desires. 

Poems (1913) vol. 2 "From the Night of Forebeing" 

Let even the slug-abed snail upon the thorn 

Put forth a conscious horn! 

Poems (1913) vol. 2 "From the Night of Forebeing" 

And, while she feels the heavens lie bare, 

She only talks about her hair. 

Poems (1913) vol. 2 "The Way of a Maid" 

Pontifical Death, that doth the crevasse bridge 

To the steep and trifid God. 

Poems (1913) vol. 2 "An Anthem of Earth" 

And all man's Babylons strive but to impart 

The grandeurs of his Babylonian heart. 

Poems (1913) vol. 2 "The Heart" no. 2 

What heart could have thought you?--

Past our devisal 

(O filigree petal!) 

Fashioned so purely, 

Fragilely, surely, 

From what Paradisal 

Imagineless metal, 

Too costly for cost? 

Poems (1913) vol. 2 "To a Snowflake" 

Insculped and embossed, 

With His hammer of wind, 

And His graver of frost. 

Poems (1913) vol. 2 "To a Snowflake" 

O world invisible, we view thee, 

O world intangible, we touch thee, 

O world unknowable, we know thee, 

Inapprehensible, we clutch thee! 

Poems (1913) vol. 2 "The Kingdom of God" 

The angels keep their ancient places;-- 

Turn but a stone, and start a wing! 

'Tis ye, 'tis your estrangŠd faces, 

That miss the many-splendoured thing. 

But (when so sad thou canst not sadder) 

Cry;--and upon thy so sore loss 

Shall shine the traffic of Jacob's ladder 

Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross. 

Yea, in the night, my Soul, my daughter, 

Cry,--clinging Heaven by the hems; 

And lo, Christ walking on the water 

Not of Gennesareth, but Thames! 

Poems (1913) vol. 2 "The Kingdom of God" 

20.17 Hunter S. Thompson 

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1939- 

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. 

Title of two articles in Rolling Stone 11 and 25 Nov. 1971 (under the 

pseudonym "Raoul Duke") 

20.18 Lord Thomson (Roy Herbert Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet) 

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1894-1976 

It is just like having your own licence to print money. 

On the profitability of commercial television in Britain, in R. Braddon 

Roy Thomson (1965) ch. 32 

20.19 Jeremy Thorpe 

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1929- 

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his

life. 

Comment on Harold Macmillan sacking many of his Cabinet, 13 July 1962, in 

D. E. Butler and Anthony King General Election of 1964 (1965) ch. 1 

20.20 James Thurber 

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1894-1961 

I suppose that the high-water mark of my youth in Columbus, Ohio, was the 

night the bed fell on my father. 

My Life and Hard Times (1933) ch. 1 

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible 

suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. 

My Life and Hard Times (1933) ch. 2 

All right, have it your own way--you heard a seal bark! 

Cartoon caption in New Yorker 30 Jan. 1932 

That's my first wife up there and this is the present Mrs Harris. 

Cartoon caption in New Yorker 16 Mar. 1933 

The war between men and women. 

Title of series of cartoons in New Yorker 20 Jan.-28 Apr. 1934 

It's a na‹ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be 

amused by its presumption. 

Cartoon caption in New Yorker 27 Mar. 1937 

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? 

Cartoon caption in New Yorker 5 June 1937 

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. 

New Yorker 4 Feb. 1939 "The Fairly Intelligent Fly" 

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. 

New Yorker 18 Feb. 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks" 

It's our own story exactly! He bold as a hawk, she soft as the dawn. 

Cartoon caption in New Yorker 25 Feb. 1939 

Then, with that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the 

firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty, 

the undefeated, inscrutable to the last. 

New Yorker 18 Mar. 1939 "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" 

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. 

New Yorker 29 Apr. 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone" 

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. 

New Yorker 29 Apr. 1939 "The Owl who was God" 

"Humour," he said, "is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity." 

In New York Post 29 Feb. 1960. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 

583:10 

20.21 Paul Tillich 

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1886-1965 

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. 

The Courage To Be (1952) pt. 2, ch. 3 

He who knows about depth knows about God. 

The Shaking of the Foundations (1948) ch. 7 

20.22 Dion Titheradge 

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And her mother came too! 

Title of song (1921; music by Ivor Novello) 

20.23 Alvin Toffler 

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1928- 

Future shock. 


20.24 J. R. R. Tolkien 

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1892-1973 

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet 

hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, 

bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was 

a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. 

The Hobbit (1937) ch. 1 

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them 

One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. 

Lord of the Rings, pt. 1 The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) epigraph 

20.25 Nicholas Tomalin 

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The only qualities for real success in journalism are ratlike cunning, 

a plausible manner and a little literary ability.... The capacity to steal 

other people's ideas and phrases--that one about ratlike cunning was 

invented by my colleague Murray Sayle--is also invaluable. 

Sunday Times Magazine 26 Oct. 1969 

20.26 Barry Took and Marty Feldman 

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Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend, Sandy. 

Catch-phrase in Round the Horne (BBC radio series, 1965-8) 

20.27 Sue Townsend 

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The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13-3/4.


20.28 Pete Townshend 

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1945- 

Hope I die before I get old. 

My Generation (1965 song) 

20.29 Polly Toynbee 

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1946- 

Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for 

women demands a change in the human psyche more profound then anything 

Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking. 

Guardian 19 Jan. 1987 

20.30 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree 

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1852-1917 

To a man who was staggering in the street under the weight of a 

grandfather clock. "My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?" 

Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm Tree (1956) ch. 12 

His own note books inform us that a gramophone company asked him for 

a testimonial, and he replied that he never gave testimonials to objects 

of merchandise. The company begged him to favour their special case, since 

his own voice had been reproduced by this means. So he wrote the 

following: "Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life 

and makes death a long-felt want." He was asked to amend this, as the 

public might misconstrue it; but he answered that it was not open to 

misconstruction. "The immortalism must stand," said he; but it was not 

used as an advertisement by the company. 

Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm Tree (1956) ch. 19 

He [Israel Zangwill] is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him. 

In Max Beerbohm Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1920) appendix 4 

He [Beerbohm Tree] approved cheerfully enough of everything until he came 

to the collection of damsels that had been dragged into the theatre as 

ladies in waiting to the queen. He looked at them in pained and prolonged 

dissatisfaction and then said what we have all wanted to say of the 

extra-women in nearly every throne-room and ball-room and school-room 

scene since the theatre began. "Ladies," said Tree, peering at them 

plaintively through his monacle, "just a little more virginity, if you 

don't mind." 

Alexander Woollcott Shouts and Murmurs (1923) "Capsule Criticism" 

20.31 Herbert Trench 

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1865-1923 

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I. 

Deirdre Lived and Other Poems (1901) "Come, let us make love deathless"

20.32 G. M. Trevelyan 

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1876-1962 

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real 

civilization. 

English Social History (1942) introduction 

It [education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to 

distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap 

appeals. 

English Social History (1942) ch. 18 

20.33 Lionel Trilling 

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1905-1975 

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. 

In Esquire Sept. 1962. Cf. Igor Stravinsky 210:16 

20.34 Tommy Trinder 

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1909-1989 

Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here. 

Describing American troops in Britain during World War II, in Sunday Times 

4 Jan. 1976 

20.35 Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) 

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1879-1940 

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. 

Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935 

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal. The bourgeoisie in 

the long run only changed the form of the pack. 

History of the Russian Revolution (1933) vol. 3, ch. 1 

You [the Mensheviks] are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; 

your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on--into the dustbin 

of history! 

History of the Russian Revolution (1933) vol. 3, ch. 10 

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and 

completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when 

to blend force with a man”uvre, a blow with an agreement. 

What Next? (1932) ch. 14 

20.36 Harry S. Truman 

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1884-1972 

I never give them [the public] hell. I just tell the truth, and they

think it is hell. 

In Look 3 Apr. 1956 

I used to have a saying that applies here, and I note that some people 

have picked it up: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." 

Mr Citizen (1960) ch. 15 (see also Harry Vaughan 22.6) 

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes 

a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been 

dead 10 or 15 years. 

In New York World Telegram and Sun 12 Apr. 1958 

It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when 

you lose yours. 


All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his 

time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they 

are supposed to do anyway. 

Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers 

of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119 

I didn't fire him [General MacArthur] because he was a dumb son of a 

bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If 

it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail. 

In Merle Miller Plain Speaking (1974) ch. 24 

When the decision is up before you--and on my desk I have a motto which 

says "The buck stops here"--the decision has to be made. 

Speech at National War College, 19 Dec. 1952, in Public Papers 1952-53 

(1966) p. 1094 

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. 

Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959, in Truman Speaks (1960) 

p. 51 

20.37 Barbara W. Tuchman 

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1912-1989 

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead 

grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war. 

August 1914 (1962) ch. 2 

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that 

which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. 

August 1914 (1962) ch. 9 

For one August in its history Paris was French--and silent. 

August 1914 (1962) ch. 20 

20.38 Sophie Tucker 

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1884-1966 

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good 

looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. 

I'm saving my money.

In Michael Freedland Sophie (1978) p. 214 

20.39 Walter James Redfern Turner 

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1889-1946 

When I was but thirteen or so 

I went into a golden land, 

Chimborazo, Cotopaxi 

Took me by the hand. 

The Hunter and Other Poems (1916) "Romance" 

20.40 Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 

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1835-1910 

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" ...was made by Mr Mark Twain, and he told 

the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he 

told the truth. 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) ch. 1 

There was some books....One was "Pilgrim's Progress," about a man that 

left his family it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. 

The statements was interesting, but tough. Another was "Friendship's 

Offering," full of beautiful stuff and poetry; but I didn't read the 

poetry. 


All kings is mostly rapscallions. 


Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? and ain't that a big 

enough majority in any town? 


If there was two birds setting on a fence, he would bet you which one 

would fly first. 

The Celebrated Jumping Frog (1867) p. 10 

I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog. 

The Celebrated Jumping Frog (1867) p. 16 

An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and quite often picturesque liar. 

Century Magazine Dec. 1885 "Private History of a Campaign that Failed" 

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. 

A Curious Dream (1872) "Mental Photographs" 

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more 

deadly in the long run. 

A Curious Dream (1872) "Facts concerning the Recent Resignation" 

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man 

looked honest enough. 

A Curious Dream (1872) "A Mysterious Visit" 

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. 

Following the Equator (1897) ch. 7

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three 

unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and 

the prudence never to practise either of them. 

Following the Equator (1897) ch. 20 

"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. 

Following the Equator (1897) ch. 25. Cf. Twain's speech to the 19th 

Century Club in New York, 20 Nov. 1900, in Speeches (1910) p. 194: "It's 

a classic, just as Professor [Caleb] Winchester says, and it meets his 

definition of a classic--something that everybody wants to have read and 

nobody wants to read." 

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. 


Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not 

succeed. 


There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is 

cowardice. 


By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. 


It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the 

heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. 


I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, 

sometimes, to make it up. 

The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 7 

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell 

better than they pronounce. 


I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast--for luncheon--for dinner--for 

tea--for supper--for between meals. 


Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made 

Italy from designs by Michael Angelo! 


That joke was lost on the foreigner--guides cannot master the subtleties 

of the American joke. 


If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out! 


The report of my death was an exaggeration. 

New York Journal 2 June 1897 (correcting newspaper reports which 

erroneously said that he was ill or dead, confusing him with his cousin, 

James Ross Clemens, who had been seriously ill in London) 

He [Thomas Carlyle] said it in a moment of excitement, when chasing

Americans out of his backyard with brickbats. They used to go there and 

worship. At bottom he was probably fond of them, but he was always able to 

conceal it. 

New York World 10 Dec. 1899, "Mark Twain's Christmas Book" 

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had 

said it before. 

Notebooks (1935) p. 67 

Familiarity breeds contempt--and children. 


Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and 

how little we think of the other person. 


Adam was but human--this explains it all. He did not want the apple for 

the apple's sake; he wanted it only because it was forbidden. 

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 2 

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep 

a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our 

race. He brought death into the world. 


Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is 

nothing but cabbage with a college education. 


One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat 

has only nine lives. 


When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. 


As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out. 


Put all your eggs in the one basket, and--watch that basket. 


Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. 


It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of 

opinion that makes horse-races. 


There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels 

the stranger's admiration--and regret. The weather is always doing 

something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up 

new designs and trying them on the people to see how they will go. But it 

gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the 

spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of 

weather inside of four-and-twenty hours. 

Speech to New England Society in New York, 22 Dec. 1876, in Speeches 

(1910) p. 59 

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and grovelling around you

when you've got an apple, and beg the core off of you; but when they've 

got one, and you beg for the core and remind them how you give them a core 

one time, they say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't-a-going to be 

no core. 

Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) ch. 1 

There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore. 

Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) ch. 10 

The cross of the Legion of Honour has been conferred upon me. However, few 

escape that distinction. 

A Tramp Abroad (1880) ch. 8 

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is 

sure. 

Letter to Mrs Foote, 2 Dec. 1887, in B. DeCasseres When Huck Finn Went 

Highbrow (1934) p. 7 

20.41 Kenneth Tynan 

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1927-1980 

Forty years ago he [Noel Coward] was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might 

say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since. 

Curtains (1961) pt. 1, p. 59 

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober. 

Curtains (1961) pt. 2, p. 347 

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. 

In New York Times Magazine 9 Jan. 1966, p. 27 

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre 

of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening. 

Tynan Right and Left (1967) foreword 

21.0 U 

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21.1 Miguel de Unamuno 

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1864-1937 

La vida es duda, 

y la fe sin la duda es s¢lo muerte. 

Life is doubt, 

And faith without doubt is nothing but death. 

Po‚sias (1907) "Salmo II" 

C£rate de la affeccion de preocuparte c¢mo aparez¡as los dem s. Cu¡date 

s¢lo de c¢mo aparez¡as Dios, cu¡date de la idea que de ti Dios tenga. 

Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other 

people. Concern yourself only with how you appear to God, with the idea 

that God has of you.

Vida de Don Quixote y Sancho (Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, 1905) pt. 1 

21.2 John Updike 

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1932- 

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and 

a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own 

weight in other people's patience. 

Assorted Prose (1965) "Confessions of a Wild Bore" 

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with 

what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect. 

Rabbit, Run (1960) p. 160 

21.3 Sir Peter Ustinov 

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1921- 

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always 

seemed to me the most civilized music in the world. 

Dear Me (1977) ch. 3 

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily 

the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. 

Dear Me (1977) ch. 5 

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. 


If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue. 


As for being a General, well at the age of four with paper hats and wooden 

swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. 

Romanoff and Juliet (1956) act 1 

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit 

down occasionally. 

Romanoff and Juliet (1956) act 1 

22.0 V 

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22.1 Paul Val‚ry 

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1871-1945 

Un poŠme n'est jamais achev‚--c'est toujours un accident qui le termine, 

c'est-…-dire qui le donne au public. 

A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to 

it--i.e. gives it to the public. 

Litt‚rature (1930) p. 46

Il faut n'appeler Science: que l'ensemble des recettes qui r‚ussissent 

toujours.--Tout le reste est litt‚rature. 

"Science" means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always 

successful. All the rest is literature. 

Moralit‚s (1932) p. 41 

Dieu cr‚a l'homme, et ne le trouvant pas assez seul, il lui donne une 

compagne pour lui faire mieux sentir sa solitude. 

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him 

a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. 

Tel Quel 1 (1941) "Moralit‚s" 

La politique est l'art d'empˆcher les gens de se mˆler de ce qui les 

regarde. 

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which 

properly concern them. 

Tel Quel 2 (1943) "Rhumbs" 

22.2 Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss 

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Itsy bitsy teenie weenie, yellow polkadot bikini. 


22.3 Vivien van Damm 

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?1889-1960 

I did not coin the slogan "We Never Closed" [for the Windmill Theatre in 

London]. It was merely a statement of fact. 

Tonight and Every Night (1952) ch. 18 

22.4 Laurens van der Post 

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1906- 

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are 

convinced beyond doubt that they are right. 

Lost World of the Kalahari (1958) ch. 3 

22.5 Bartolomeo Vanzetti 

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1888-1927 

If it had not been for these thing, I might have live out my life talking 

at street corners to scorning men. I might have die, unmarked, unknown, a 

failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. 

Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for 

joostice, for man's onderstanding of man as now we do by accident. 

Our words--our lives--our pains--nothing! The taking of our lives--lives 

of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler--all! That last moment belongs 

to us--that agony is our triumph.

Statement after being sentenced, 9 Apr. 1927, in M. D. Frankfurter and G. 

Jackson Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti (1928) preface 

Sacco's name will live in the hearts of the people and in their gratitude 

when Katzmann's and yours bones will be dispersed by time, when your name, 

his name, your laws, institutions, and your false god are but a deem 

rememoring of a cursed past in which man was wolf to the man. 

Note by Vanzetti of what he wanted to say at his trial, 9 Apr. 1927, in 

M. D. Frankfurter and G. Jackson Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti (1928) 

p. 380 

22.6 Harry Vaughan 

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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. 

In Time 28 Apr. 1952 (often used by Harry S. Truman, q.v.) 

22.7 Ralph Vaughan Williams 

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1872-1958 

I don't know whether I like it [the 4th symphony], but it's what I meant. 

In Christopher Headington Bodley Head History of Western Music (1974) 

p. 293 

On arrival on a visit to the United States, Ralph Vaughan Williams was met 

by a crowd of reporters. One of them seized him by the arm and said, "Tell 

me, Dr Vaughan Williams, what do you think about music?" The old man 

peered quizzically into his face and made the solemn pronouncement: "It's 

a Rum Go!" 

Leslie Ayr The Wit of Music (1966) p. 43 

22.8 Thorstein Veblen 

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1857-1929 

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to 

the gentleman of leisure. 

Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) ch. 4 

So it is something of a homiletical commonplace to say that the outcome of 

any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where one 

question grew before. 

University of California Chronicle (1908) vol. 10, no. 4, "Evolution of 

the Scientific Point of View" 

22.9 Gore Vidal 

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1925- 

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. 

In G. Irvine Antipanegyric for Tom Driberg 8 Dec. 1976, p. 2 

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how 

suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. 

Encounter Dec. 1967, "French Letters: Theories of the New Novel"

A triumph of the embalmer's art. 

In Observer 26 Apr. 1981 (describing Ronald Reagan) 

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. 

In Sunday Times Magazine 16 Sept. 1973 

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. 

In Sunday Times Magazine 16 Sept. 1973 

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. 

Two Sisters (1970) p. 65 

22.10 King Vidor 

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1895-1982 

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word...it's a sentence! 

The Crowd (1928 film) 

22.11 Jos‚ Antonio Viera Gallo 

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1943- 

El socialismo puede llegar solo en bicicleta. 

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle. 

Said when Assistant Secretary of Justice in Chilean Government, in Ivan 

Illich Energy and Equity (1974) p. 11 

23.0 W 

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23.1 John Wain 

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1925- 

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. 

BBC radio broadcast, 13 Jan. 1976 

23.2 Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay 

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Jerry Wald 1911-1962 

Richard Macaulay 

Naughty but nice. 


23.3 Prince of Wales 

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See Prince Charles (3.48)

23.4 Arthur Waley 

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1889-1966 

What is hard today is to censor one's own thoughts-- 

To sit by and see the blind man 

On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss. 

Censorship 

23.5 Edgar Wallace 

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1875-1932 

What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting 

than women. 

New York Times 24 Jan. 1932, sec. 8, p. 6 

Dreamin' of thee! Dreamin' of thee! 

Writ in Barracks (1900) "T. A. in Love" (popularised in 1930 broadcast by 

Cyril Fletcher) 

23.6 George Wallace 

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1919- 

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever! 

Inaugural speech as Governor of Alabama, Jan. 1963, in Birmingham World 

19 Jan. 1963 

23.7 Henry Wallace 

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1888-1965 

The century on which we are entering--the century which will come out of 

this war--can be and must be the century of the common man. 

Speech, 8 May 1942, in Vital Speeches (1942) vol. 8, p. 483 

23.8 Graham Wallas 

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1858-1932 

The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to be sure 

of her meaning before she spoke, said, "How can I know what I think till 

I see what I say?" 

Art of Thought (1926) ch. 4. Cf. E. M. Forster 83:9 

23.9 Sir Hugh Walpole 

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1884-1941 

'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it. 

Fortitude (1913) bk.1, ch. 1

23.10 Andy Warhol 

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1927-1987 

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In 

the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with 

that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes 

everybody will be famous." 

Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54" 

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. 


An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have 

but that he--for some reason--thinks it would be a good idea to give them. 

Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) (1975) ch. 10 

23.11 Jack Warner (Horace Waters) 

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1895-1981 

Mind my bike! 

Catch-phrase used in the BBC radio series Garrison Theatre, 1939 onwards, 

in D. Parker Radio: the Great Years (1977) p. 94 

23.12 Ned Washington 

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Hi diddle dee dee (an actor's life for me). 

Title of song (1940; music by Leigh Harline) 

When you wish upon a star. 

Title of song (1940; music by Leigh Harline) 

23.13 Sir William Watson 

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1858-1935 

April, April, 

Laugh thy girlish laughter; 

Then, the moment after, 

Weep thy girlish tears! 

Poems (1905) vol. 1, "Song" 

These and a thousand tricks and ways and traits 

I noted as of Demos at their root, 

And foreign to the staid, conservative 

Came-over-with-the Conqueror type of mind. 

Poems (1905) vol. 1, "A Study in Contrasts" 

23.14 Evelyn Waugh 

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1903-1966 

Brideshead revisited.


A shriller note could now be heard rising from Sir Alastair's rooms; any 

who have heard that sound will shrink at the recollection of it; it is the 

sound of English county families baying for broken glass. 

Decline and Fall (1928) "Prelude." Cf. Hilaire Belloc 25:9 

I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the 

gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour. 

Decline and Fall (1928) "Prelude" 

"We class schools, you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate 

School, Good School, and School. Frankly," said Mr Levy, "School is 

pretty bad." 

Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 1, ch. 1 

For generations the British bourgeoisie have spoken of themselves as 

gentlemen, and by that they have meant, among other things, 

a self-respecting scorn of irregular perquisites. It is the quality that 

distinguishes the gentleman from both the artist and the aristocrat. 


"I often think," he continued, "that we can trace almost all the disasters 

of English history to the influence of Wales!" 


I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One 

needs more rest if one doesn't sleep. 


Apparently he has been reading a series of articles by a popular bishop 

and has discovered that there is a species of person called a "Modern 

Churchman" who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not 

commit himself to any religious belief. 


I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to 

the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. 


Any one who has been to an English public school will always feel 

comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay 

intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying. 


Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. 

Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 

1960-65," 26 Mar. 1962 

Randolph Churchill went into hospital...to have a lung removed. It was 

announced that the trouble was not "malignant." Seeing Ed Stanley in 

White's, on my way to Rome, I remarked that it was a typical triumph of 

modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant 

and remove it. 

Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) "Irregular Notes 

1960-65," Mar. 1964 

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs--except in England, of 

course. 

The Loved One (1948) ch. 1

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would 

think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used 

to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. 

The Loved One (1948) ch. 9 

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with 

anything. 


"The Beast stands for strong mutually antagonistic governments 

everywhere," he [Lord Copper] said. "Self-sufficiency at home, 

self-assertion abroad." 

Scoop (1938) bk. 1, ch. 1 

Mr Salter's side of the conversation was limited to expressions of assent. 

When Lord Copper was right, he said, "Definitely, Lord Copper"; when he 

was wrong, "Up to a point." 

Scoop (1938) bk. 1, ch. 1 

"He [Boot]'s supposed to have a particularly high-class style: 

'Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'..would 

that be it?" "Yes," said the Managing Editor. "That must be good style." 

Scoop (1938) bk. 1, ch. 1 

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. 

And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead. 

Scoop (1938) bk. 1, ch. 5 

"I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house," she [Mrs Earl 

Russell Jackson] said. 

Scoop (1938) bk. 2, ch. 1 

Other nations use "force"; we Britons alone use "Might." 

Scoop (1938) bk. 2, ch. 5 

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go 

to my dentist any day. 

Vile Bodies (1930) ch. 6 

Lady Peabury was in the morning room reading a novel; early training gave 

a guilty spice to this recreation, for she had been brought up to believe 

that to read a novel before luncheon was one of the gravest sins it was 

possible for a gentlewoman to commit. 

Work Suspended (1942) "An Englishman's Home" 

The trouble with the Conservative Party is that it has not turned the 

clock back a single second. 

Attributed 

23.15 Frederick Weatherly 

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1848-1929 

Where are the boys of the old Brigade, 

Who fought with us side by side? 

The Old Brigade 

Roses are flowering in Picardy,

But there's never a rose like you. 

Roses of Picardy (1916 song) 

23.16 Beatrice Webb 

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1858-1943 

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of 

people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the 

cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the 

world, why should you be frightened?" 

In Bertrand Russell Autobiography (1967) vol. 1, ch. 4 

See also Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb (23.20) 

23.17 Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason 

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An everyday story of country folk. 

Introduction to The Archers (BBC radio serial, 1950 onwards) 

23.18 Jim Webb 

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1946- 

Up, up and away. 


23.19 Sidney Webb (Baron Passfield) 

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1859-1947 

First let me insist on what our opponents habitually ignore, and indeed, 

what they seem intellectually incapable of understanding, namely the 

inevitable gradualness of our scheme of change. 

Presidential address at Labour Party Conference in London, 26 June 1923, 

in Report (1923) p. 178 

23.20 Sidney Webb (Baron Passfield) and Beatrice Webb 

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Sidney Webb (Baron Passfield) 1859-1947 

Beatrice Webb 1858-1943 

Sidney would remark, "I know just what Beatrice is saying at this moment. 

She is saying, 'as Sidney always says, marriage is the waste-paper basket 

of the emotions.'" 

Bertrand Russell Autobiography (1967) vol. 1, ch. 4 

23.21 Simone Weil 

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1909-1943 

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which

enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. 

Gasoline is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international 

conflict. 

In W. H. Auden A Certain World (1971) p. 384 

La culture est un instrument mani‚ par des professeurs pour fabriquer des 

professeurs qui … leur tour fabriqueront des professeurs. 

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors, to manufacture professors, 

who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. 

L'Enracinement (The Need for Roots, 1949) "D‚racinement ouvrier" 

Tous les P‚ch‚s sont des tentatives pour combler des vides. 

All sins are attempts to fill voids. 

La Pesanteur et la grƒce(Gravity and Grace, 1948) p. 27 

23.22 Johnny Weissmuller 

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1904-1984 

I didn't have to act in "Tarzan, the Ape Man"--just said, "Me Tarzan, you 

Jane." 

Photoplay Magazine June 1932 (the words "Me Tarzan, you Jane" do not 

occur in the 1932 film) 

23.23 Thomas Earle Welby 

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1881-1933 

"Turbot, Sir," said the waiter, placing before me two fishbones, two 

eyeballs, and a bit of black mackintosh. 

The Dinner Knell (1932) "Birmingham or Crewe?" 

23.24 Fay Weldon 

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1931- 

Natalie had left the wives and joined the women. 

Heart of the Country (1987) p. 51 

The life and loves of a she-devil. 


23.25 Colin Welland 

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1934- 

The British are coming. 

Speech accepting an Oscar for his Chariots of Fire screenplay, 30 Mar. 

1982, in Sight & Sound Summer 1982 

23.26 Orson Welles 

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1915-1985

To his associate, Richard Wilson...Orson [Welles] then declared, "This 

[the RKO studio] is the biggest electric train set any boy ever had!" 

Peter Noble The Fabulous Orson Welles (1956) ch. 7 

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, 

murder, bloodshed--they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the 

Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of 

democracy and peace and what did that produce...? The cuckoo clock. 

The Third Man (1949 film; words added by Welles to the script, in Graham 

Greene and Carol Reed The Third Man (1969) p. 114 

23.27 H. G. Wells 

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1866-1946 

If Max [Beaverbrook] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked 

out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell. after having 

secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, 

of course. 

In A. J. P. Taylor Beaverbrook (1972) ch. 8 

The thing his [Henry James's] novel is about is always there. It is like 

a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light 

and line focussed on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently 

placed, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string. 

Boon (1915) ch. 4 

It is leviathan retrieving pebbles. It is a magnificent but painful 

hippopotamus resolved at any cost, even at the cost of its dignity, upon 

picking up a pea which has got into a corner of its den. Most things, it 

insists, are beyond it, but it can, at any rate modestly, and with an 

artistic singleness of mind, pick up that pea. 

Boon (1915) ch. 4 (on Henry James) 

He [James Holroyd] was a practical electrician but fond of whisky, 

a heavy, red-haired brute with irregular teeth. He doubted the existence 

of the Deity but accepted Carnot's cycle, and he had read Shakespeare and 

found him weak in chemistry. 

Complete Short Stories (1927) "Lord of the Dynamos" 

But Nunez advanced with the confident steps of a youth who enters upon 

life. All the old stories of the lost valley and the Country of the Blind 

had come back to his mind, and through his thoughts ran this old proverb, 

as if it were a refrain--In the Country of the Blind the One-Eyed Man is 

King. 

The Country of the Blind (1904; revised 1939) p. 52 

"Sesquippledan," he would say. "Sesquippledan verboojuice." 

History of Mr Polly (1909) ch. 1, pt. 5 

"I'm a Norfan, both sides," he would explain, with the air of one who had 

seen trouble. 

Kipps (1905) bk. 1, ch. 6, pt. 1 

"I expect," he said, "I was thinking jest what a Rum Go everything is. 

I expect it was something like that." 

Kipps (1905) bk. 3, ch. 3, pt. 8

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of 

human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the 

general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into 

the social masonry. 

Love and Mr Lewisham (1900) ch. 23 

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and 

catastrophe. 

Outline of History (1920) vol. 2, ch. 41, pt. 4 

The shape of things to come. 


The war that will end war. 

Title of book (1914). Cf. David Lloyd-George 138:8 

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. 

The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) ch. 9, sect. 2 

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years 

or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be 

done and a serious attempt to do it. 

The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931) ch. 2 

23.28 Arnold Wesker 

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1932- 

And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by 

a foreign hand, and on top it said--God I hated that old man--it said 

"Chips with everything." Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and 

you eat chips with everything. 

Chips with Everything (1962) act 1, sc. 2 

23.29 Mae West 

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1892-1980 

It's better to be looked over than overlooked. 

Belle of the Nineties (1934 film) 

A man in the house is worth two in the street. 

Belle of the Nineties (1934 film) 

You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini. 

Every Day's a Holiday (1937 film). A similar line is spoken by Robert 

Benchley in the 1942 film The Major and the Minor, written by Charles 

Brackett and Billy Wilder. Cf. 7:12 

I always say, keep a diary and some day it'll keep you. 

Every Day's a Holiday (1937 film) 

Beulah, peel me a grape. 

I'm No Angel (1933 film) 

I've been things and seen places. 

I'm No Angel (1933 film)

When I'm good, I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. 


It's not the men in my life that counts--it's the life in my men. 


Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you. 

Klondike Annie (1936 film) 

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. 

Klondike Annie (1936 film) 

I've been in Who's Who, and I know what's what, but it'll be the first 

time I ever made the dictionary. 

Letter to the RAF, early 1940s, on having an inflatable life jacket named 

after her, in Fergus Cashin Mae West (1981) ch. 9 

"Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!" 

"Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie." 

Night After Night (1932 film) 

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? 

In Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975) p. 47 

I used to be Snow White...but I drifted. 

In Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975) p. 47 

Why don't you come up sometime, and see me? I'm home every evening. 

She Done Him Wrong (1933 film; often misquoted as "Come up and see me 

sometime," which became Mae West's catch-phrase) 

23.30 Dame Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Fairfield) 

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1892-1983 

Journalism--an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. 

New York Herald Tribune 22 Apr. 1956, sec. 6, p. 2 

He [Michael Arlen] is every other inch a gentleman. 

In Victoria Glendinning Rebecca West (1987) pt. 3, ch. 5 

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as 

indefensible as infanticide. 

The Strange Necessity (1928) "The Tosh Horse" 

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who 

sits down and considers just how many people know the truth about his or 

her love affairs. 

Vogue 1 Nov. 1952 

23.31 Edith Wharton 

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1862-1937 

She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable 

and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of 

French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian 

for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Age of Innocence (1920) bk. 1, ch. 1 

She keeps on being Queenly in her own room with the door shut. 

The House of Mirth (1905) bk. 2, ch. 1 

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of 

immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. 

The Writing of Fiction (1925) ch. 1 

Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though 

it were dangerous to meet it alone. 

Xingu and Other Stories (1916) "Xingu" 

23.32 E. B. White 

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1899-1985 

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. 

Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it. 

New Yorker 8 Dec. 1928 (cartoon caption) 

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are 

right more than half of the time. 

New Yorker 3 July 1944 

Commuter--one who spends his life 

In riding to and from his wife; 

A man who shaves and takes a train, 

And then rides back to shave again. 

Poems and Sketches (1982) "The Commuter" 

23.33 T. H. White 

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1906-1964 

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The 

Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic. 

Farewell Victoria (1933) pt. 4 

The once and future king. 


23.34 Alfred North Whitehead 

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1861-1947 

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the 

Universe. 

Adventures of Ideas (1933) pt. 1, ch. 5 

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be 

true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation 

of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest, and is its 

importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting 

than a false one. 

Adventures of Ideas (1933) pt. 4, ch. 16

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to 

treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. 

Dialogues (1954) prologue 

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is 

capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. 

Dialogues (1954) 15 Dec. 1939 

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then 

and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. 

Dialogues (1954) 30 Aug. 1941 

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic 

enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. 

Dialogues (1954) 10 June 1943 

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations 

which we can perform without thinking about them. 

Introduction to Mathematics (1911) ch. 5 

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical 

tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. 

Process and Reality (1929) pt. 2, ch. 1 

23.35 Bertrand Whitehead 

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Drinka Pinta Milka Day. 

Slogan for the British Milk Marketing Board, 1958 

23.36 Katharine Whitehorn 

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1926- 

No nice men are good at getting taxis. 

Observer 1977 

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, 

and shrapnel. 

Shouts and Murmurs (1963) "Hats" 

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when 

you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one. 

Sunday Best (1976) "Decoding the West" 

23.37 George Whiting 

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My blue heaven. 

Title of song (1927; music by Walter Donaldson) 

When you're all dressed up and have no place to go. 

Title of song (1912; music by Newton Harding) 

23.38 Gough Whitlam 

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1916- 

Well may he say "God Save the Queen." But after this nothing will save the 

Governor-General.... Maintain your rage and your enthusiasm through the 

campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day. 

Speech in Canberra, 11 Nov. 1975, in The Times 12 Nov. 1975 

23.39 Charlotte Whitton 

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1896-1975 

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as 

good. Luckily, this is not difficult. 

In Canada Month June 1963 

23.40 William H. Whyte 

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1917- 

This book is about the organization man.... I can think of no other way to 

describe the people I am talking about. They are not the workers, nor are 

they the white-collar people in the usual, clerk sense of the word. These 

people only work for the Organization. The ones I am talking about belong 

to it as well. 

The Organization Man (1956) ch. 1 

23.41 Anna Wickham (Edith Alice Mary Harper) 

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1884-1947 

It is well within the order of things 

That man should listen when his mate sings; 

But the true male never yet walked 

Who liked to listen when his mate talked. 

The Contemplative Quarry (1915) "The Affinity" 

23.42 Richard Wilbur 

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1921- 

We milk the cow of the world, and as we do 

We whisper in her ear, "You are not true." 

Ceremony and Other Poems (1950) "Epistemology" 

23.43 Billy Wilder (Samuel Wilder) 

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1906- 

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. 

In J. R. Columbo Wit and Wisdom of the Moviemakers (1979) ch. 7 

23.44 Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond 

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I. A. L. Diamond 

Gerry: We can't get married at all.... I'm a man. 

Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect. 

Some Like It Hot (1959 film; closing words) 

23.45 Thornton Wilder 

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1897-1975 

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. 

Merchant of Yonkers (1939) act 1 

The fights are the best part of married life. The rest is merely so-so. 

Merchant of Yonkers (1939) act 2 

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. 

In Time 12 Jan. 1953 

23.46 Kaiser Wilhelm II 

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1859-1941 

We have...fought for our place in the sun and have won it. It will be my 

business to see that we retain this place in the sun unchallenged, so that 

the rays of that sun may exert a fructifying influence upon our foreign 

trade and traffic. 

Speech in Hamburg, 18 June 1901, in The Times 20 June 1901 

23.47 Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle 

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Geoffrey Willans 1911-1958 

Ronald Searle 1920- 

The only good things about skool are the boys wizz who are noble brave 

fearless etc. although you hav various swots, bulies, cissies, milksops, 

greedy guts and oiks with whom i am forced to mingle hem-hem. 

Down With Skool! (1953) p. 7 

This is wot it is like when we go back on the skool trane. There are lots 

of new bugs and all there maters blub they hav every reason if they knew 

what they were going to. For us old lags however it is just another 

stretch same as any other and no remision for good conduc. We kno what it 

will be like at the other end Headmaster beaming skool bus ratle off 

leaving trail of tuck boxes peason smugling in a box of flat 50 cigs 

fotherington-tomas left in the lugage rack and new bugs stand as if 

amazed. 

How To Be Topp (1954) ch. 1 

There is no better xsample of a goody-goody than fotherington-tomas in the 

world in space. You kno he is the one who sa Hullo Clouds Hullo Sky and 

skip about like a girly. 


Still xmas is a good time with all those presents and good food and i hope

it will never die out or at any rate not until i am grown up and hav to 

pay for it all. 


23.48 Harry Williams 

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1874-1924 

I'm afraid to come home in the dark. 

Title of song (1907; music by Egbert van Alstyne) 

23.49 Kenneth Williams 

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1926-1988 

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance 

with the originator which is often socially impressive. 

Acid Drops (1980) preface 

23.50 Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) 

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1911-1983 

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defence against betrayal. 

Camino Real (1953) block 10 

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just 

a work in progress. 

Camino Real (1953) block 12 

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?--I wish I knew....Just 

staying on it, I guess, as long as she can. 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) act 1 

Brick: Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy. 

Big daddy: That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is 

a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it 

with. 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) act 2. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations 

(1979) 403:27 

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an' death's 

the other. 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) act 2 

I didn't go to the moon, I went much further--for time is the longest 

distance between two places. 

The Glass Menagerie (1945) p. 123 

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, 

for life! 

Orpheus Descending (1958) act 2, sc. 1 

Turn that off! I won't be looked at in this merciless glare! 

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) sc. 1 

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) sc. 11 (Blanche's final words) 

23.51 William Carlos Williams 

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1883-1963 

I will teach you my townspeople 

how to perform a funeral 

for you have it over a troop 

of artists-unless 

one should scour the world-you 

have the ground sense necessary. 

Book of Poems Al Que Quiere! (1917) "Tract" 

Minds like beds always made up, 

(more stony than a shore) 

unwilling or unable. 

Paterson (1946) bk. 1, preface 

so much depends 

upon 

a red wheel 

barrow 

glazed with rain 

water 

beside the white 

chickens. 

Spring and All (1923) "The Red Wheelbarrow" 

Is it any better in Heaven, my friend Ford, 

Than you found it in Provence? 

The Wedge (1944) "To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven" 

23.52 Ted Willis (Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis of Chislehurst) 

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1918- 

Evening, all. 

Opening words spoken by Jack Warner as Sergeant Dixon in Dixon of Dock 

Green (BBC television series, 1956-76) 

23.53 Wendell Willkie 

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1892-1944 

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. 

An American Programme (1944) ch. 2 

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, 

we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or 

poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the 

colour of their skin. 

One World (1943) ch. 13 

23.54 Angus Wilson 

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1913- 

"God knows how you Protestants can be expected to have any sense of 

direction," she said. "It's different with us, I haven't been to mass for 

years, I've got every mortal sin on my conscience, but I know when I'm 

doing wrong. I'm still a Catholic, it's there, nothing can take it away 

from me." "Of course, duckie," said Jeremy..."once a Catholic always 

a Catholic." 

The Wrong Set (1949) p. 168. Cf. Mary O'Malley 

23.55 Charles E. Wilson 

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1890-1961 

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General 

Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too 

big. It goes with the welfare of the country. Our contribution to the 

nation is quite considerable. 

Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on his proposed 

nomination to be Secretary of Defence, 15 Jan. 1953, in New York Times 

24 Feb. 1953, p. 8 

23.56 Edmund Wilson 

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1895-1972 

Of all the great Victorian writers, he [Dickens] was probably the most 

antagonistic to the Victorian age itself. 

The Wound and the Bow (1941) "Dickens: the Two Scrooges" 

23.57 Harold Wilson (Baron Wilson of Rievaulx) 

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1916- 

Traders and financiers all over the world had been listening to the 

Chancellor. For months he had said that if he could not stop the wage 

claims, the country was "facing disaster."... Rightly or wrongly these 

people believed him. For them, 5th September--the day that the Trades 

Union Congress unanimously rejected the policy of wage restraint--marked 

the end of an era. And all these financiers, all the little gnomes in 

Zurich and the other financial centres about whom we keep on hearing, 

started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling. 


The Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the 

poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further 

General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as 

a Parliamentary leper. 


My hon. Friends know that if one buys land on which there is a slag heap 

120 ft. high and it costs œ100,000 to remove that slag, that is not land 

speculation in the sense that we condemn it. It is land reclamation. 

Hansard 4 Apr. 1974, col. 1441 

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it 

tinned. With vinegar.


The Monarchy is a labour-intensive industry. 


Harold Wilson...was unable to remember when he first uttered his dictum to 

the effect that: A week is a long time in politics. Inquiries among 

political journalists led to the conclusion that in its present form the 

phrase was probably first uttered at a meeting between Wilson and the 

Parliamentary lobby in the wake of the Sterling crisis shortly after he 

first took office as Prime Minister in 1964. However, Robert 

Carvel...recalled Wilson at a Labour Party conference in 1960 saying 

"Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics." 

Nigel Rees Sayings of the Century (1984) p. 149 

This party [the Labour Party] is a moral crusade or it is nothing. 

Speech at Labour Party Conference 1 Oct. 1962, in The Times 2 Oct. 1962 

The Prime Ministers [at the Lagos Conference, 9-12 Jan. 1966] noted the 

statement by the British Prime Minister that on the expert advice 

available to him the cumulative effects of the economic and financial 

sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of 

weeks rather than months. 

The Times 13 Jan. 1966 

From now the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of 

other currencies. It does not mean, of course, that the pound here in 

Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued. 

Ministerial broadcast, 19 Nov. 1967, in The Times 20 Nov. 1967 

Everyone wanted more wage increases, he [Mr Wilson] said, believing that 

prices would remain stable; but one man's wage increase was another man's 

price increase. 

Speech at Blackburn, 8 Jan. 1970, in The Times 9 Jan. 1970 

23.58 McLandburgh Wilson 

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1892- 

'Twixt the optimist and pessimist 

The difference is droll: 

The optimist sees the doughnut 

But the pessimist sees the hole. 

Optimist and Pessimist 

23.59 Sandy Wilson 

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1924- 

It's never too late to have a fling, 

For Autumn is just as nice as Spring, 

And it's never too late to fall in love. 

It's Never too Late to Fall in Love (1953 song) 

23.60 Woodrow Wilson 

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1856-1924

It must be a peace without victory.... Only a peace between equals can 

last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common 

participation in a common benefit. 

Speech to US Senate, 22 Jan. 1917, in Messages and Papers (1924) vol. 1, 

p. 352 

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am 

an American. America, my fellow citizens--I do not say it in 

disaparagement of any other great people--America is the only idealistic 

Nation in the world. 

Speech at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 8 Sept. 1919, in Messages and Papers 

(1924) vol. 2, p. 822 

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such 

a thing as tolerance. 

In John Dos Passos Mr Wilson's War (1917) pt. 3, ch. 12 

We have stood apart, studiously neutral. 

Speech to Congress, 7 Dec. 1915, in New York Times 8 Dec. 1915, p. 4 

America can not be an ostrich with its head in the sand. 

Speech at Des Moines, 1 Feb. 1916, in New York Times 2 Feb. 1916, p. 1 

A little group of wilful men representing no opinion but their own, have 

rendered the Great Government of the United States helpless and 

contemptible. 

Statement, 4 Mar. 1917, after a successful filibuster against Wilson's 

bill to arm American merchant ships, in New York Times 5 Mar. 1917, p. 1 

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from 

the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of 

resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of 

governmental power, not the increase of it. 

Speech to New York Press Club in New York, 9 Sept. 1912, in Papers of 

Woodrow Wilson (1978) vol. 25, p. 124 

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. 

Speech in New York, 20 Apr. 1915, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 79 

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such 

a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince 

others by force that it is right. 

Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 88 

Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best. 

Speech to Congress, 2 Apr. 1917, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 190 

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon 

the tested foundations of political liberty. 


The right is more precious than peace. 


The programme of the world's peace...is this: 

1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall 

be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall 

proceed always frankly and in the public view. 

Speech to Congress, 8 Jan. 1918, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 247

23.61 Robb Wilton 

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1881-1957 

The day war broke out. 

Catch-phrase, from circa 1940 

23.62 Arthur Wimperis 

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1874-1953 

I've gotter motter 

Always merry and bright! 

Look around and you will find 

Every cloud is silver-lined; 

The sun will shine 

Altho' the sky's a grey one; 

I've often said to meself, I've said, 

"Cheer up, curly you'll soon be dead! 

A short life and a gay one!" 

My Motter (1909 song; music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot) 

23.63 Owen Wister 

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1860-1938 

Therefore Trampas spoke. "You bet, you son-of-a--" The Virginian's pistol 

came out, and...he issued his orders to the man Trampas:--"When you call 

me that, smile!" 

The Virginian (1902) ch. 2 

23.64 Ludwig Wittgenstein 

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1889-1951 

G„be es ein Verbum mit der Bedeutung "f„lschlich glamben," so h„tte das 

heine sinnvolle erste Person im Indikatir des Pr„sens. 

If there were a verb meaning "to behave falsely," it would not have any 

significant first person, present indicative. 

Philosophical Investigations (1953) pt. 2, sec. 10 

Was sich berhaupt sagen l„sst, l„sst sich klar sagen; und wovon man nicht 

reden kann, darber muss man schweigen. 

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak 

thereof one must be silent. 

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) preface 

Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist. 

The world is everything that is the case. 

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) p. 30 

Die Logik muss fr sich selber sorgen.

Logic must take care of itself. 


Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt. 

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. 


Die Welt des Glcklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglcklichen. 

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy. 


23.65 P. G. Wodehouse 

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1881-1975 

Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab 

a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. 

All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains. What good 

are brains to a man? They only unsettle him. 

The Adventures of Sally (1920) ch. 10 

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance 

and a ray of sunshine. 

Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935) "The Custody of the Pumpkin" 

At this point in the proceedings there was another ring at the front door. 

Jeeves shimmered out and came back with a telegram. 

Carry On, Jeeves! (1925) "Jeeves Takes Charge" 

He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if 

not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled, so I tactfully 

changed the subject. 

The Code of the Woosters (1938) ch. 1 

Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound. 


It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the 

core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. 


Roderick Spode? Big chap with a small moustache and the sort of eye that 

can open an oyster at sixty paces? 


To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and 

encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time. 

The Heart of a Goof (1926) dedication 

The lunches of fifty-seven years had caused his chest to slip down into 

the mezzanine floor. 

The Heart of a Goof (1926) "Chester Forgets Himself" 

I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather like that of one 

who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in 

the small of the back.

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) ch. 4 

Sir Roderick Glossop, Honoria's father, is always called a nerve 

specialist, because it sounds better, but everybody knows that he's really 

a sort of janitor to the looney-bin. 


As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions 

when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval 

swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is 

being shot round the family circle ("Please read this carefully and send 

it on to Jane"), the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the 

advantages I get from being a bachelor--and, according to my nearest and 

dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that. 


It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in 

advance of medical thought. 


It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do 

not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. 

The Man Upstairs (1914) title story 

She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by 

someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that 

season. 

My Man Jeeves (1919) "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest" 

What with excellent browsing and sluicing and cheery conversation and 

what-not, the afternoon passed quite happily. 


"What ho!" I said. 

"What ho!" said Motty. 

"What ho! What ho!" 

"What ho! What ho! What ho!" 

After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation. 


I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what 

a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see 

what I mean. 

My Man Jeeves (1919) "Rallying Round Old George" 

Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes. 

Pigs Have Wings (1952) ch. 5 

The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured 

into his clothes and had forgotten to say "When!." 

Very Good, Jeeves (1930) "Jeeves and the Impending Doom" 

23.66 Humbert Wolfe 

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1886-1940 

You cannot hope 

to bribe or twist, 

thank God! the

British journalist. 

But, seeing what 

the man will do 

unbribed, there's 

no occasion to. 

The Uncelestial City (1930) "Over the Fire" 

23.67 Thomas Wolfe 

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1900-1938 

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. 

Look Homeward, Angel (1929) pt. 1, ch. 1 

"Where they got you stationed now, Luke?" said Harry Tugman peering up 

snoutily from a mug of coffee. "At the p-p-p-present time in Norfolk at 

the Navy base," Luke answered, "m-m-making the world safe for hypocrisy." 

Look Homeward, Angel (1929) pt. 3, ch. 36 

You can't go home again. 


23.68 Tom Wolfe 

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1931- 

The bonfire of the vanities. 


23.69 Woodbine Willie 

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See G. A. Studdert Kennedy (19.130) 

23.70 Lt.-Commander Thomas Woodroofe 

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1899-1978 

At the present moment, the whole Fleet's lit up. When I say "lit up," 

I mean lit up by fairy lamps. 

Radio broadcast, 20 May 1937 

23.71 Harry Woods 

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Oh we ain't got a barrel of money, 

Maybe we're ragged and funny, 

But we'll travel along 

Singin' a song, 

Side by side. 

Side by Side (1927 song) 

When the red, red, robin comes bob, bob, bobbin' along. 

Title of song (1926)

23.72 Virginia Woolf 

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1882-1941 

Righteous indignation. is misplaced if we agree with the lady's maid that 

high birth is a form of congenital insanity, that the sufferer merely 

inherits diseases of his ancestors, and endures them, for the most part 

very stoically, in one of those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which 

are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. 

The Common Reader (1925) "Lady Dorothy Nevill." Cf. Oxford Dictionary of 


We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the 

eternity of print. 

The Common Reader (1925) "The Modern Essay" 

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by 

heart; and his friends could only read the title. 

Jacob's Room (1922) ch. 5 

Never did I read such tosh [as James Joyce's Ulysses]. As for the first 

two chapters we will let them pass, but the 3rd 4th 5th 6th--merely the 

scratching of pimples on the body of the bootboy at Claridges. 

Letter to Lytton Strachey, 24 Apr. 1922, in Letters (1976) vol. 2, p. 551 

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. 

A Room of One's Own (1929) ch. 1 

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the 

magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its 

natural size. 


Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond 

reason the opinions of others. 


So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl 

throwing a ball. 

To the Lighthouse (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13 

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost 

friends, some by death--Percival--others through sheer inability to cross 

the street. 

The Waves (1931) p. 202 

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A broker is a man who takes your fortune and runs it into a shoestring. 

In Samuel Hopkins Adams Alexander Woollcott (1945) ch. 15 

I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained 

by some of your grosser reminiscences. 

Letter to Rex O'Malley, 1942, in Samuel Hopkins Adams Alexander Woollcott 

(1945) ch. 34

She [Dorothy Parker] is so odd a blend of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth. 

It is not so much the familiar phenomenon of a hand of steel in a velvet 

glove as a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds. 

While Rome Burns (1934) "Our Mrs Parker" 

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or 

fattening. 

In R. E. Drennan Wit's End (1973) 

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1867-1959 

The necessities were going by default to save the luxuries until I hardly 

knew which were necessities and which luxuries. 

Autobiography (1945) bk. 2, p. 108 

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his 

client to plant vines--so they should go as far as possible from home to 

build their first buildings. 

New York Times 4 Oct. 1953, sec. 6, p. 47 

23.75 Woodrow Wyatt (Baron Wyatt) 

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1919- 

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. 

To the Point (1981) p. 107 

23.76 Laurie Wyman 

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Left hand down a bit! 

The Navy Lark (BBC radio series, 1959-77) 

23.77 George Wyndham 

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1863-1913 

Over the construction of Dreadnoughts. What the people said was, "We want 

eight, and we won't wait." 

Speech in Wigan, 27 Mar. 1909, in The Times 29 Mar. 1909 

23.78 Tammy Wynette (Wynette Pugh) and Billy Sherrill 

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Tammy Wynette (Wynette Pugh) 1942- 

Billy Sherrill 

Stand by your man. 


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1898-1968 

See W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman (19.45) 

24.2 W. B. Yeats 

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1865-1939 

I think it better that at times like these 

We poets keep our mouths shut, for in truth 

We have no gift to set a statesman right; 

He's had enough of meddling who can please 

A young girl in the indolence of her youth 

Or an old man upon a winter's night. 

"A Reason for Keeping Silent" in Edith Wharton (ed.) The Book of the 

Homeless (1916) p. 45 

We had fed the heart on fantasies, 

The heart's grown brutal from the fare, 

More substance in our enmities 

Than in our love; Oh, honey-bees 

Come build in the empty house of the stare. 

The Cat and the Moon (1924) "Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The 

Stare's Nest by my Window" 

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, 

Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; 

Laugh, heart, again in the gray twilight; 

Sigh, heart, again in the dew of morn. 

The Celtic Twilight (1893) "Into the Twilight" 

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, 

And nodding by the fire, take down this book 

And slowly read and dream of the soft look 

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. 

How many loved your moments of glad grace, 

And loved your beauty with love false or true, 

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, 

And loved the sorrows of your changing face. 

And bending down beside the glowing bars 

Murmur, a little sad, "From us fled Love. 

He paced upon the mountains far above, 

And hid his face amid a crowd of stars." 

The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old" 

A pity beyond all telling, 

Is hid in the heart of love. 

The Countess Kathleen (1892) "The Pity of Love" 

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, 

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; 

Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade. 

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, 

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; 

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, 

And evening full of the linnet's wings. 

I will arise and go now, for always night and day 

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; 

While I stand on the roadway or on the pavements gray, 

I hear it in the deep heart's core. 

The Countess Kathleen (1892) "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" 

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with 

ourselves, poetry. 

Essays (1924) "Anima Hominis" sec. 5 

Why, what could she have done being what she is? 

Was there another Troy for her to burn? 

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) "No Second Troy" 

The fascination of what's difficult 

Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent 

Spontaneous joy and natural content 

Out of my heart. 

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) "The Fascination of What's 

Difficult" 

But where's the wild dog that has praised his fleas? 

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) "To a Poet, Who would have Me 

Praise certain bad Poets, Imitators of His and of Mine" 

When I was young, 

I had not given a penny for a song 

Did not the poet sing it with such airs, 

That one believed he had a sword upstairs. 

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) "All Things can Tempt Me" 

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth, 

That long to give themselves for wage, 

To shake their wicked sides at youth 

Restraining reckless middle age? 

The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912) "On hearing that the Students of 

our New University have joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature" 

I said "a line will take us hours maybe, 

Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought 

Our stitching and unstitching has been naught." 

In the Seven Woods (1903) "Adam's Curse" 

The land of faery, 

Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, 

Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, 

Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. 

The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) p. 12 

Land of Heart's Desire, 

Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, 

But joy is wisdom, Time an endless song. 

The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) p. 36

Measurement began our might: 

Forms a stark Egyptian thought, 

Forms that gentler Phidias wrought. 

Michaelangelo left a proof 

On the Sistine Chapel roof, 

Where but half-awakened Adam 

Can disturb globe-trotting Madam 

Till her bowels are in heat, 

Proof that there's a purpose set 

Before the secret working mind: 

Profane perfection of mankind. 

Last Poems (1939) "Under Ben Bulben" pt. 4 

Irish poets, learn your trade, 

Sing whatever is well made, 

Scorn the sort now growing up 

All out of shape from toe to top, 

Their unremembering hearts and heads 

Base-born products of base beds. 

Sing the peasantry, and then 

Hard-riding country gentlemen, 

The holiness of monks, and after 

Porter-drinkers' randy laughter. 


Cast your mind on other days 

That we in coming days may be 

Still the indomitable Irishry. 


Under bare Ben Bulben's head 

In Drumcliffe churchyard Yeats is laid. 

An ancestor was rector there 

Long years ago, a church stands near, 

By the road an ancient cross. 

No marble, no conventional phrase; 

On limestone quarried near the spot 

By his command these words are cut: 

Cast a cold eye 

On life, on death. 

Horseman pass by! 


Pythagoras planned it. Why did the people stare? 

His numbers, though they moved or seemed to move 

In marble or in bronze, lacked character. 

But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love 

Of solitary beds, knew what they were, 

That passion could bring character enough, 

And pressed at midnight in some public place 

Live lips upon a plummet-measured face. 

No! Greater than Pythagoras, for the men 

That with a mallet or a chisel modelled these 

Calculations that look but casual flesh, put down 

All Asiatic vague immensities, 

And not the banks of oars that swam upon 

The many-headed foam at Salamis. 

Europe put off that foam when Phidias 

Gave women dreams and dreams their looking glass.

Last Poems (1939) "The Statues" 

When Pearse summoned Cuchulain to his side 

What stalked through the Post Office? What intellect, 

What calculation, number, measurement, replied? 

We Irish, born into that ancient sect 

But thrown upon this filthy modern tide 

And by its formless spawning, fury wrecked, 

Climb to our proper dark, that we may trace 

The lineaments of a plummet-measured face. 

Last Poems (1939) "The Statues" 

Our master Caesar is in the tent 

Where the maps are spread, 

His eyes fixed upon nothing, 

A hand under his head. 

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream 

His mind moves upon silence. 

Last Poems (1939) "Long-Legged Fly" 

Now that my ladder's gone 

I must lie down where all ladders start 

In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. 

Last Poems (1939) "The Circus Animals' Desertion" pt. 3 

I have met them at close of day 

Coming with vivid faces 

From counter or desk among grey 

Eighteenth-century houses. 

I have passed with a nod of the head 

Or polite meaningless words, 

Or have lingered awhile and said 

Polite meaningless words, 

And thought before I had done 

Of a mocking tale or a gibe 

To please a companion 

Around the fire at the club, 

Being certain that they and I 

But lived where motley is worn: 

All changed, changed utterly: 

A terrible beauty is born. 

Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1920) "Easter, 1916" 

Too long a sacrifice 

Can make a stone of the heart. 

O when may it suffice? 


I write it out in a verse-- 

MacDonagh and MacBride 

And Connolly and Pearse 

Now and in time to be, 

Wherever green is worn, 

Are changed, changed utterly: 

A terrible beauty is born. 


Turning and turning in the widening gyre 

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere 

The ceremony of innocence is drowned; 

The best lack all conviction, while the worst 

Are full of passionate intensity. 

Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1920) "The Second Coming" 

The darkness drops again but now I know 

That twenty centuries of stony sleep 

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, 

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, 

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? 

Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1920) "The Second Coming" 

An intellectual hatred is the worst, 

So let her think opinions are accursed. 

Have I not seen the loveliest woman born 

Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, 

Because of her opinionated mind 

Barter that horn and every good 

By quiet natures understood 

For an old bellows full of angry wind? 

Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1920) "A Prayer for My Daughter" 

The ghost of Roger Casement 

Is beating on the door. 

New Poems (1938) "The Ghost of Roger Casement" 

Think where man's glory most begins and ends 

And say my glory was I had such friends. 

New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited" 

You think it horrible that lust and rage 

Should dance attendance upon my old age; 

They were not such a plague when I was young; 

What else have I to spur me into song? 

New Poems (1938) "The Spur" 

I thought no more was needed 

Youth to prolong 

Than dumb-bell and foil 

To keep the body young. 

Oh, who could have foretold 

That the heart grows old? 

Nine Poems (1918) "A Song" 

That is no country for old men. The young 

In one another's arms, birds in the trees-- 

Those dying generations--at their song, 

The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, 

Fish flesh or fowl, commend all summer long 

Whatever is begotten born and dies. 

Caught in that sensual music all neglect 

Monuments of unageing intellect. 

October Blast (1927) "Sailing to Byzantium" 

An aged man is but a paltry thing, 

A tattered coat upon a stick, unless 

Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing

For every tatter in its mortal dress. 


And therefore I have sailed the seas and come 

To the holy city of Byzantium. 


O body swayed to music, O brightening glance 

How can we know the dancer from the dance? 

October Blast (1927) "Among School Children" 

The Light of Lights 

Looks always on the motive, not the deed, 

The Shadow of Shadows on the deed alone. 

Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 3 

The years like great black oxen tread the world, 

And God the herdsman goads them on behind, 

And I am broken by their passing feet. 

Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 4 

Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days! 

Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways. 

Poems (1895) "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time" 

Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! 

Poems (1895) "The Rose of Battle" 

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; 

She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. 

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; 

But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. 

In a field by the river my love and I did stand, 

And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. 

She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; 

But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. 

Poems (1895) "Down by the Salley Gardens" 

In dreams begins responsibility. 

Responsibilities (1914) epigraph 

Was it for this the wild geese spread 

The grey wing upon every tide; 

For this that all that blood was shed, 

For this Edward Fitzgerald died, 

And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, 

All that delirium of the brave; 

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, 

It's with O'Leary in the grave. 

Responsibilities (1914) "September, 1913" 

I made my song a coat 

Covered with embroideries 

Out of old mythologies 

From heel to throat; 

But the fools caught it, 

Wore it in the world's eye 

As though they'd wrought it. 

Song, let them take it 

For there's more enterprise

In walking naked. 

Responsibilities (1914) "A Coat" 

A woman of so shining loveliness 

That men threshed corn at midnight by a tress, 

A little stolen tress. 

The Secret Rose (1897) "To the Secret Rose" 

When shall the stars be blown about the sky, 

Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die? 

Surely thine hour has come, thy great wind blows, 

Far off, most secret, and inviolate Rose? 

The Secret Rose (1897) "To the Secret Rose" 

Bald heads forgetful of their sins, 

Old, learned, respectable bald heads 

Edit and annotate the lines 

That young men, tossing on their beds, 

Rhymed out in love's despair 

To flatter beauty's ignorant ear. 

All shuffle there; all cough in ink; 

All wear the carpet with their shoes; 

All think what other people think; 

All know the man their neighbour knows. 

Lord, what would they say 

Did their Catullus walk that way? 

Selected Poems (1929) "The Scholars" 

Does the imagination dwell the most 

Upon a woman won or woman lost? 

If on the lost, admit you turned aside 

From a great labyrinth out of pride. 

The Tower (1928) "The Tower" pt. 2 

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still 

Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed 

By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, 

He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. 

How can those terrified vague fingers push 

The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? 

The Tower (1928) "Leda and the Swan" 

A shudder in the loins engenders there 

The broken wall, the burning roof and tower 

And Agamemnon dead. 

The Tower (1928) "Leda and the Swan" 

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; 

Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the 

eye of day; 

The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away. 

The Tower (1928) "From Oedipus at Colonus" 

I mourn for that most lonely thing; and yet God's will be done, 

I knew a phoenix in my youth so let them have their day. 

The Wild Swans at Coole (1917) "His Phoenix" 

I see a schoolboy when I think of him 

With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window,

For certainly he sank into his grave 

His senses and his heart unsatisfied, 

And made--being poor, ailing and ignorant, 

Shut out from all the luxury of the world, 

The ill-bred son of a livery stable-keeper-- 

Luxuriant song. 

The Wild Swans at Coole (1917) "Ego Dominus Tuus" [of Keats] 

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, 

Nor public man, nor angry crowds, 

A lonely impulse of delight 

Drove to this tumult in the clouds; 

I balanced all, brought all to mind, 

The years to come seemed waste of breath, 

A waste of breath the years behind 

In balance with this life, this death. 

The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death" 

And pluck till time and times are done, 

The silver apples of the moon, 

The golden apples of the sun. 

The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) "Song of Wandering Aengus" 

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, 

Enwrought with golden and silver light, 

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths 

Of night and light and the half light, 

I would spread the cloths under your feet: 

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; 

I have spread my dreams under your feet; 

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. 

The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" 

The light of evening, Lissadell, 

Great windows open to the south, 

Two girls in silk kimonos, both 

Beautiful, one a gazelle. 

The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz" 

The innocent and the beautiful 

Have no enemy but time. 

The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz" 

Nor dread nor hope attend 

A dying animal; 

A man awaits his end 

Dreading and hoping all. 

The Winding Stair (1929) "Death" 

He knows death to the bone-- 

Man has created death. 

The Winding Stair (1929) "Death" 

What lively lad most pleasured me 

Of all that with me lay? 

I answer that I gave my soul 

And loved in misery, 

But had great pleasure with a lad

That I loved bodily. 

Flinging from his arms I laughed 

To think his passion such 

He fancied that I gave a soul 

Did but our bodies touch, 

And laughed upon his breast to think 

Beast gave beast as much. 

The Winding Stair (1929) "A Woman Young and Old" pt. 9 

We were the last romantics--chose for theme 

Traditional sanctity and loveliness; 

Whatever's written in what poets name 

The book of the people; whatever most can bless 

The mind of man or elevate a rhyme; 

But all is changed, that high horse riderless, 

Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode 

Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood. 

The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) "Coole and Ballylee, 1931" 

A woman can be proud and stiff 

When on love intent; 

But Love has pitched his mansion in 

The place of excrement; 

For nothing can be sole or whole 

That has not been rent. 

The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) "Crazy Jane Talks with the 

Bishop" 

A starlit or a moonlit dome distains 

All that man is; 

All mere complexities, 

The fury and the mire of human veins. 

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Byzantium" 

Those images that yet 

Fresh images beget, 

That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. 

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Byzantium" 

While on the shop and street I gazed 

My body of a sudden blazed; 

And twenty minutes more or less 

It seemed, so great my happiness, 

That I was blessŠd and could bless. 

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Vacillation" 

The intellect of man is forced to choose 

Perfection of the life, or of the work, 

And if it take the second must refuse 

A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. 

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Coole Park and Ballylee, 

1932" 

Only God, my dear, 

Could love you for yourself alone 

And not your yellow hair. 

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Anne Gregory" 

Swift has sailed into his rest;

Savage indignation there 

Cannot lacerate his breast. 

Imitate him if you dare, 

World-besotted traveller; he 

Served human liberty. 

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Swift's Epitaph" 

Out of Ireland have we come. 

Great hatred, little room, 

Maimed us at the start. 

I carry from my mother's womb 

A fanatic heart. 

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Remorse for Intemperate 

Speech" 

What were all the world's alarms 

To mighty Paris when he found 

Sleep upon a golden bed 

That first night in Helen's arms? 

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Lullaby" 

24.3 Jack Yellen 

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Happy days are here again! 

The skies above are clear again. 

Let us sing a song of cheer again, 

Happy days are here again! 

Happy Days Are Here Again (1929 song; music by Milton Ager) 

I'm the last of the red-hot mamas. 

Title of song (1928; popularized by Sophie Tucker) 

24.4 Michael Young 

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1915- 

The rise of the meritocracy 1870-2033. 


24.5 Waldemar Young et al. 

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We have ways of making men talk. 

Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935 film; the words became a catch-phrase as 

"We have ways of making you talk") 

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25.1 Darryl F. Zanuck 

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1902-1979

For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking. 

In Philip French The Movie Moguls (1969) ch. 5 

25.2 Emiliano Zapata 

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1879-1919 

Muchos de ellos, por complacer a tiranos, por un pu¤ado de monedas, o por 

cohecho o soborno, est n derramando la sangre de sus hermanos. 

Many of them, so as to curry favour with tyrants, for a fistful of coins, 

or through bribery or corruption, are shedding the blood of their 

brothers. 

Plan de Ayala 28 Nov. 1911, para. 10 (referring to the maderistas who, in 

Zapata's view, had betrayed the revolutionary cause) 

25.3 Frank Zappa 

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1940- 

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't 

talk for people who can't read. 

In Linda Botts Loose Talk (1980) p. 177 

25.4 Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale 

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Robert Zemeckis 1952- 

Bob Gale 1952- 

Back to the future. 


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1939- 

Reminded of the President's previous statements that the White House was 

not involved [in the Watergate affair], Ziegler said that Mr Nixon's 

latest statement "is the Operative White House Position...and all previous 

statements are inoperative." 

Boston Globe 18 Apr. 1973 

25.6 Grigori Zinoviev 

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Armed warfare must be preceded by a struggle against the inclinations to 

compromise which are embedded among the majority of British workmen, 

against the ideas of evolution and peaceful extermination of capitalism. 

Only then will it be possible to count upon complete success of an armed 

insurrection. 

Letter to the British Communist Party, 15 Sept. 1924, in The Times 25 Oct. 

1924 (the "Zinoviev Letter," said by some to be a forgery: see Listener 

17 Sept. 1987)

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