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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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4.108 William Pulteney, Earl <strong>of</strong> Bath 1684-1764<br />

For Sir Ph—p well knows<br />

That innuendoes<br />

Will serve him no longer in verse or in prose,<br />

Since twelve honest men have decided the cause,<br />

And were judges <strong>of</strong> fact, tho’ not judges <strong>of</strong> laws.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Honest Jury’ (1729) st. 3 (on Sir Philip Yorke’s unsuccessful prosecution <strong>of</strong> ‘<strong>The</strong> Craftsman’ in 1729)<br />

4.109 Punch 1841—<br />

Advice to persons about to marry.—’Don’t.’<br />

vol. 8, p. 1 (1845)<br />

You pays your money and you takes your choice.<br />

vol. 10, p. 17 (1846)<br />

<strong>The</strong> Half-Way House to Rome, <strong>Oxford</strong>.<br />

vol. 16, p. 36 (1849)<br />

What is better than presence <strong>of</strong> mind in a railway accident? Absence <strong>of</strong> body.<br />

vol. 16, p. 231 (1849)<br />

Never do to-day what you can put <strong>of</strong>f till to-morrow.<br />

vol. 17, p. 241 (1849)<br />

Who’s ’im, Bill? A stranger! ’Eave ’arf a brick at ’im.<br />

vol. 26, p. 82 (1854)<br />

What is Matter?—Never mind. What is Mind?—No matter.<br />

vol. 29, p. 19 (1855)<br />

It ain’t the ’unting as ’urts ’im, it’s the ’ammer, ’ammer, ’ammer along the ’ard ’igh road.<br />

vol. 30, p. 218 (1856)<br />

Mun, a had na’ been the-erre abune two hours when—bang—went saxpence!!!<br />

vol. 54, p. 235 (1868)<br />

Cats is ‘dogs’ and rabbits is ‘dogs’ and so’s Parrats, but this ’ere ‘Tortis’ is a insect, and there<br />

ain’t no charge for it.<br />

vol. 56, p. 96 (1869)<br />

Nothink for nothink ’ere, and precious little for sixpence.<br />

vol. 57, p. 152 (1869)<br />

Sure, the next train has gone ten minutes ago.<br />

vol. 60, p. 206 (1871)<br />

It appears the Americans have taken umbrage. <strong>The</strong> deuce they have! Whereabouts is that?<br />

vol. 63, p. 189 (1872)<br />

Go directly—see what she’s doing, and tell her she mustn’t.<br />

vol. 63, p. 202 (1872)<br />

<strong>The</strong>re was one poor tiger that hadn’t got a Christian.<br />

vol. 68, p. 143 (1875)

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