The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

A swear-word in a rustic slum
A simple swear-word is to some,
To Masefield something more.
‘Fifty Caricatures’ (1912) no. 12
I was not unpopular [at school]...It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
‘More’ (1899) ‘Going Back to School’
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at
school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or
Cambridge.
‘More’ (1899) ‘Going Back to School’
Enter Michael Angelo. Andrea del Sarto appears for a moment at a window. Pippa passes.
‘Seven Men’ (1919) ‘“Savonarola” Brown’ act 3
The fading signals and grey eternal walls of that antique station, which, familiar to them and
insignificant, does yet whisper to the tourist the last enchantments of the Middle Age.
‘Zuleika Dobson’ (1911) ch. 1.
The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to
a bad end.
‘Zuleika Dobson’ (1911) ch. 4
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
‘Zuleika Dobson’ (1911) ch. 4
Deeply regret inform your grace last night two black owls came and perched on battlements
remained there through night hooting at dawn flew away none knows whither awaiting
instructions Jellings.
‘Zuleika Dobson’ (1911) ch. 14
Prepare vault for funeral Monday Dorset.
‘Zuleika Dobson’ (1911) ch. 14
The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
‘Zuleika Dobson’ (1911) ch. 15
Most women are not so young as they are painted.
‘The Yellow Book’ (1894) vol. 1, p. 67
Fate wrote her a most tremendous tragedy, and she played it in tights.
‘The Yellow Book’ (1894) vol. 3, p. 260 (of Queen Caroline of Brunswick)
2.71 Ethel Lynn Beers 1827-79
All quiet along the Potomac to-night,
No sound save the rush of the river,
While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead—
The picket’s off duty forever.
‘The Picket Guard’ (1861) st. 6.