The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

11.129 Lt.-Commander Thomas Woodroofe 1899-1978
At the present moment, the whole Fleet’s lit up. When I say ‘lit up’, I mean lit up by fairy
lamps.
Radio broadcast, 20 May 1937
11.130 Harry Woods
Oh we ain’t got a barrel of money,
Maybe we’re ragged and funny,
But we’ll travel along
Singin’ a song,
Side by side.
‘Side by Side’ (1927 song)
When the red, red, robin comes bob, bob, bobbin’ along.
Title of song (1926)
11.131 Virginia Woolf 1882-1941
Righteous indignation...is misplaced if we agree with the lady’s maid that high birth is a form
of congenital insanity, that the sufferer merely inherits diseases of his ancestors, and endures
them, for the most part very stoically, in one of those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which
are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
‘Lady Dorothy Nevill’ in ‘The Common Reader’ (1925).
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
‘The Modern Essay’ in ‘The Common Reader’ (1925)
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends
could only read the title.
‘Jacob’s Room’ (1922) ch. 5
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929) ch. 1
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious
power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.
‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929) ch. 2
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of
others.
‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929) ch. 3
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.
‘To the Lighthouse’ (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by
death—Percival—others through sheer inability to cross the street.
‘The Waves’ (1931) p. 202
Never did I read such tosh [as James Joyce’s Ulysses]. As for the first two chapters we will let