The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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.
‘A Guide to Men’ (1922) p. 25.
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn’t commit when he
had the opportunity.
‘A Guide to Men’ (1922) p. 87
6.95 Richard Rowland c.1881-1947
The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.
Comment on the 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.
6.96 Maude Royden 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
6.97 Naomi Royde-Smith c.1875-1964
I know two things about the horse
And one of them is rather coarse.
‘Weekend Book’ (1928) p. 231
6.98 Matthew Roydon fl. 1580-1622
A sweet attractive kind of grace,
A full assurance given by looks,
Continual comfort in a face,
The lineaments of Gospel books;
I trow that countenance cannot lie,
Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
‘An Elegy, or Friend’s Passion, for his Astrophill’ (on Sir Philip Sidney) (1593) st. 18
Was never eye, did see that face,
Was never ear, did hear that tongue,
Was never mind, did mind his grace,
That ever thought the travel long—
But eyes, and ears, and ev’ry thought,
Were with his sweet perfections caught.
‘An Elegy, or Friend’s Passion, for his Astrophill’ (on Sir Philip Sidney) (1593) st. 19
6.99 Paul Alfred Rubens 1875-1917