The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonists, we shall have an
association, in which the free development of each is the free development of all.
‘The Communist Manifesto’ (1848) para. 2
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
‘The Communist Manifesto’ (1848) ‘Bourgeois and Proletarians’
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. working men
of all countries, unite!
‘The Communist Manifesto’ (1848) closing words (from the 1888 translation by Samuel Moore, edited by
Engels). D. Fernbach (ed.) ‘Karl Marx: The Revolutions of 1848: Political Writings’ (1973) vol. 1, p. 62
1.87 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots 1542-87
In my end is my beginning.
Motto.
1.88 Mary Tudor 1516-58
When I am dead and opened, you shall find ‘Calais’ lying in my heart.
‘Holinshed’s Chronicles’ vol. 4 (1808) p. 137
1.89 Queen Mary 1867-1953
To give up all that for this—!
Referring to her son [Edward VIII]’s natural inheritance on the one hand, and the Instrument of Abdication on
the other; in J. Bryan III and Charles J. V. Murphy ‘The Windsor Story’ (1979) bk. 2, ch. 11, sometimes
quoted ‘To give up all this for that!—’ ‘that’ being Mrs Simpson
‘Well, Mr Baldwin! this is a pretty kettle of fish!’
On the abdication crisis, in James Pope-Hennessy ‘Life of Queen Mary’ (1959) pt. 4, ch. 7
1.90 Eric Maschwitz 1901-69
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.
Title of song (1940)
1.91 John Masefield 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.
‘Cargoes’ (1903)
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,