The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

sound.
‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’ (1967) act 3
War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war
because they don’t want to be a hero.
‘Travesties’ (1975) act 1
7.175 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-96
‘Never was born!’ persisted Topsy; ‘never had no father, nor mother, nor nothin’. I was raised
by a speculator.’
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ (1852) ch. 20
Don’t think nobody never made me. I ’spect I growed.
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ (1852) ch. 20
7.176 Lord Stowell 1745-1836
The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.
In Lord Campbell ‘Lives of the Lord Chancellors’ (1857) vol. 10, ch. 212.
A precedent embalms a principle.
An opinion, while Advocate-General, 1788; attributed
7.177 Lytton Strachey 1880-1932
Francis Bacon has been described more than once with the crude vigour of antithesis...He was
not striped frieze; he was shot silk.
‘Elizabeth and Essex’ (1928) ch. 5
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies,
which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
‘Eminent Victorians’ (1918) preface
Was it he who had been supple and yielding? he who had won by art what he could never have
won by force, and who had managed, so to speak, to be one of the leaders of the procession less
through merit than through a superior faculty for gliding adroitly to the front rank?
‘Eminent Victorians’ (1918) ‘Cardinal Manning’ introduction
The time was out of joint, and he was only too delighted to have been born to set it right.
‘Eminent Victorians’ (1918) ‘Cardinal Manning’ pt. 2 (referring to Hurrell Froude).
Her conception of God was certainly not orthodox. She felt towards Him as she might have felt
towards a glorified sanitary engineer; and in some of her speculations she seems hardly to
distinguish between the Deity and the Drains.
‘Eminent Victorians’ (1918) ‘Florence Nightingale’ pt. 4
[Chairman of military tribunal:] What would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to
violate your sister?
[Strachey:] I would try to get between them.
In Robert Graves ‘Good-bye to All That’ (1929) ch. 23 (otherwise quoted ‘I should interpose my body’)