The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Therewith all sweetly did me kiss
And softly said, ‘Dear heart how like you this?’
‘Remembrance’
My lute, awake! perform the last
Labour that thou and I shall waste,
An end that I have now begun;
For when this song is sung and past,
My lute, be still, for I have done.
‘To his Lute’
11.139 Woodrow Wyatt (Baron Wyatt) 1919—
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
‘To the Point’ (1981) p. 107
11.140 William Wycherley c.1640-1716
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but
only for a night and away.
‘The Country Wife’ (1672-3) act 1, sc. 1
Go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
‘The Country Wife’ (1672-3) act 2
Nay, you had both felt his desperate deadly daunting dagger:—there are your d’s for you!
‘The Gentleman Dancing-Master’ (1671-2) act 5
Fy! madam, do you think me so ill bred as to love a husband?
‘Love in a Wood’ (1671) act 3, sc. 4
You [drama critics] who scribble, yet hate all who write...
And with faint praises one another damn.
‘The Plain Dealer’ (1677) prologue
11.141 Laurie Wyman
Left hand down a bit!
‘The Navy Lark’ (BBC radio series, 1959-77)
11.142 George Wyndham 1863-1913
Over the construction of Dreadnoughts....What the people said was, ‘We want eight, and we
won’t wait.’
Speech in Wigan, 27 March 1909, in ‘The Times’ 29 March 1909
11.143 Tammy Wynette (Wynette Pugh) 1942—and Billy Sherrill
Stand by your man.
Title of song (1968)