The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

11.123 Thomas Wolfe 1900-38
Most of the time we think we’re sick, it’s all in the mind.
‘Look Homeward, Angel’ (1929) pt. 1, ch. 1
‘Where they got you stationed now, Luke?’ said Harry Tugman peering up snoutily from a
mug of coffee. ‘At the p-p-p-present time in Norfolk at the Navy base,’ Luke answered, ‘m-mmaking
the world safe for hypocrisy.’
‘Look Homeward, Angel’ (1929) pt. 3, ch. 36.
You can’t go home again.
Title of novel (1940)
11.124 Tom Wolfe 1931—
The bonfire of the vanities.
Title of novel (1987)
11.125 Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-97
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened
age, be contested without danger.
‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ (1792) ch. 3
A king is always a king—and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand
between them and rational converse.
‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ (1792) ch. 4
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ (1792) ch. 4
When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ (1792) ch. 4
11.126 Cardinal Wolsey c.1475-1530
Father Abbot, I am come to lay my bones amongst you.
Cavendish ‘Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey’ (1641) p. 108
Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over
in my gray hairs.
Cavendish ‘Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey’ (1641) p. 113
11.127 Mrs Henry Wood 1814-87
Dead! and...never called me mother.
‘East Lynne’ (dramatized version by T. A. Palmer, 1874). These words do not occur in the novel
11.128 Woodbine Willie
See G. A. Studdert Kennedy (7.180)