The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather,
Blown fields or flowerful closes,
Green pleasure or grey grief.
‘A Match’
There was a poor poet named Clough,
Whom his friends all united to puff,
But the public, though dull,
Had not such a skull
As belonged to believers in Clough.
‘Essays and Studies’ (1875) ‘Matthew Arnold’
I will go back to the great sweet mother,
Mother and lover of men, the sea.
I will go down to her, I and no other,
Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.
‘The Triumph of Time’
I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships,
Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.
‘The Triumph of Time’
There lived a singer in France of old
By the tideless dolorous midland sea.
In a land of sand and ruin and gold
There shone one woman, and none but she.
‘The Triumph of Time’
7.193 Eric Sykes and Max Bygraves 1922—
Eric Sykes had this quick ear and could tell by any inflection I put into a line how to make it a
catch phrase—at one time I had more catch phrases than I could handle. I had the whole country
saying things like ‘I’ve arrived and to prove it I’m here!’ ‘A good idea—son’ ‘Bighead!’ ‘Dollar
lolly’.
Max Bygraves ‘I Wanna Tell You a Story!’ (1976) p. 96 (describing catch-phrases on ‘Educating Archie’,
1950-3 BBC radio comedy series)
7.194 John Addington Symonds 1840-93
These things shall be! A loftier race
Than e’er the world hath known shall rise,
With flame of freedom in their souls,
And light of knowledge in their eyes.
Hymn
7.195 John Millington Synge 1871-1909