The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots
And the Cabots talk only to God.
Verse spoken at Holy Cross College alumni dinner in Boston, Massachusetts, 1910, in ‘Springfield Sunday
Republican’ 14 December 1924
2.161 Jacques-Bènigne Bossuet 1627-1704
L’Angleterre, ah, la perfide Angleterre, que le rempart de ses mers rendoit inaccessible aux
Romains, la foi du Sauveur y est abordèe.
England, ah, faithless England, which the protection afforded by its seas rendered inaccessible
to the Romans, the faith of the Saviour spread even there.
‘Premier Sermon pour La Fête de la Circoncision de Notre Seigneur’.
2.162 James Boswell 1740-95
We may be in some degree whatever character we choose.
‘Boswell’s London Journal’ (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1950) 21 November 1762
I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of
mankind.
‘Boswell’s London Journal’ (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1950) 20 January 1763
I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland,
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.
‘Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides’ (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1936) 14 August 1773
We [Boswell and Johnson] are both Tories; both convinced of the utility of monarchical
power, and both lovers of that reverence and affection for a sovereign which constitute loyalty, a
principle which I take to be absolutely extinguished in Britain.
‘Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides’ (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1936) 13 September 1773
A page of my Journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a
considerable portion.
‘Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides’ (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1936) 13 September 1773
I have never yet exerted ambition in rising in the state. But sure I am, no man has made his
way better to the best company.
‘Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides’ (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1936) 16 September 1773
Johnson: Well, we had a good talk.
Boswell: Yes, Sir; you tossed and gored several persons.
‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1934 ed.) vol. 2, p. 66 (Summer 1768)
A man, indeed, is not genteel when he gets drunk; but most vices may be committed very
genteelly: a man may debauch his friend’s wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly.
‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1934 ed.) vol. 2, p. 340 (6 April 1775)
2.163 Gordon Bottomley 1874-1948
Your worship is your furnaces,