The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

7.185 Arthur Hays Sulzberger 1891-1968
We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
On journalism, in ‘Time’ 8 May 1950
7.186 Edith Summerskill 1901-80
The housewife is the Cinderella of the affluent state...She is wholly dependent on the whim of
an individual to give her money for the essentials of life. If she complains she is a nagger—for
nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Speech to the Married Women’s Association, House of Commons, 14 July 1960; in ‘The Times’ 15 July 1960
7.187 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey c.1517-47
Martial, the things for to attain
The happy life be these, I find:
The riches left, not got with pain;
The fruitful ground, the quiet mind;
The equal friend; no grudge nor strife;
No charge of rule, nor governance;
Without disease the healthful life;
The household of continuance.
‘The Happy Life’ (1547); translation of Martial’s ‘Epigrams’ bk. 10, no. 47
The chaste wife, wise, without debate;
Such sleeps as may beguile the night;
Contented with thine own estate;
Neither wish death nor fear his might.
‘The Happy Life’ (1547)
7.188 R. S. Surtees 1803-64
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
‘The Analysis of the Hunting Field’ (1846) ch. 1
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a
gentleman never is one.
‘Ask Mamma’ (1858) ch. 1
Major Yammerton was rather a peculiar man, inasmuch as he was an ass, without being a fool.
‘Ask Mamma’ (1858) ch. 25
’Unting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost wot is not spent in ’unting—it is like the
hair we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its
guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.
‘Handley Cross’ (1843) ch. 7.
’Unting fills my thoughts by day, and many a good run I have in my sleep. Many a dig in the