The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

The Pope! How many divisions has he got?
When asked by Pierre Louval, French Foreign Minister, to encourage Catholicism in Russia by way of
conciliating the Pope, 13 May 1935; in W. S. Churchill ‘The Second World War’ vol. 1 ‘The Gathering Storm
(1948) ch. 8.
7.152 Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904
Dr Livingstone, I presume?
‘How I found Livingstone’ (1872) ch. 11
7.153 Charles E. Stanton 1859-1933
Lafayette, nous voila!
Lafayette, we are here.
At the tomb of Lafayette in Paris, 4 July 1917, in ‘New York Tribune’ 6 September 1917
7.154 Edwin Mcmasters Stanton 1814-69
Now he belongs to the ages.
Of Abraham Lincoln, after his assassination, 15 April 1865, in I. M. Tarbell ‘Life of Abraham
Lincoln’ (1900) vol. 2, p. 244
7.155 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902
The Bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the
fall of the race...marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of
suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependant on
man’s bounty for all her material wants.
‘The Woman’s Bible’ (1895) pt. 1
Woman’s degradation is in man’s idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all
founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
Letter to Susan B. Anthony, 14 June 1860, in T. Stanton and H. Stanton Blaher (eds.) ‘Elizabeth Cady
Stanton’ (1922) vol. 2
7.156 Frank L. Stanton 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)
7.157 John Stark 1728-1822
We beat them to-day or Molly Stark’s a widow.
Before the Battle of Bennington, 16 August 1777, in Appleton ‘Cyclopaedia of American Biography’ vol. 5
7.158 Christina Stead 1902-83