The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

History a distillation of rumour.
‘History of the French Revolution’ (1837) vol. 1, bk. 7, ch. 5
The difference between Orthodoxy or My-doxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy.
‘History of the French Revolution’ (1837) vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 2
The seagreen Incorruptible.
Referring to Robespierre, in ‘History of the French Revolution’ (1837) vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 4
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
‘History of the French Revolution’ (1837) vol. 3, bk. 7, ch. 7
Aristocracy of the Moneybag.
‘History of the French Revolution’ (1837) vol. 3, bk. 7, ch. 7
Worship is transcendent wonder.
‘On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic’ (1841) ‘The Hero as Divinity’
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the
body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
‘On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic’ (1841) ‘The Hero as Man of Letters’
The true University of these days is a collection of books.
‘On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic’ (1841) ‘The Hero as Man of Letters’
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a
hundred that will stand adversity.
‘On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic’ (1841) ‘The Hero as Man of Letters’
I hope we English will long maintain our grand talent pour le silence.
‘On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic’ (1841) ‘The Hero as King’
Maid-servants, I hear people complaining, are getting instructed in the ‘ologies’.
‘Inaugural Address at Edinburgh’, 2 April 1866, on being installed as Rector of the University
A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions mostly
fools.
‘Latter-Day Pamphlets’ (1850) ‘Parliaments’.
The Dismal Science.
On political economy in ‘Latter-Day Pamphlets’ (1850) ‘The Present Time’
Little other than a redtape talking-machine, and unhappy bag of parliamentary eloquence.
Describing himself, in ‘Latter-Day Pamphlets’ (1850) ‘The Present Time’
Transcendental moonshine.
‘The Life of John Sterling’ (1851) pt. 1, ch. 15
Captains of industry.
‘Past and Present’ (1843) bk. 4, ch. 4 (title)
He who first shortened the labour of copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding
hired armies, and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new democratic
world: he had invented the art of printing.
‘Sartor Resartus’ (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5