The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

I must plough my furrow alone.
Speech on remaining outside the Liberal Party leadership, 19 July 1901, in ‘The Times’ 20 July 1901
The fly-blown phylacteries of the Liberal Party.
Speech at Chesterfield, 16 December 1901
6.80 Ethel Rosenberg 1916-53 and Julius Rosenberg 1918-53
We are innocent...To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of
life.
Petition for executive clemency, filed 9 January 1953, in Ethel Rosenberg ‘Death House Letters’ (1953) p. 149
We are the first victims of American Fascism.
Letter from Julius to Emanuel Bloch before the Rosenbergs’ execution for espionage, 19 June 1953; in Ethel
Rosenberg ‘Testament of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg’ (1954) p. 187
6.81 Alan S. C. Ross 1907-80
There are, it is true, still a few minor points of life which may serve to demarcate the upper
class, but they are only minor ones...when drunk, gentlemen often become amorous or maudlin or
vomit in public, but they never become truculent.
‘U and Non-U. An essay in sociological linguistics’, in ‘Neuphilologische Mitteilungen’ (1954); later
incorporated into Nancy Mitford (ed.) ‘Noblesse Oblige’ (1956)
6.82 Christina Rossetti 1830-94
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
‘A Birthday’
Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.
‘Echo’
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter,
Long ago.
‘Mid-Winter’
The hope I dreamed of was a dream,