The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
‘Table Talk’ (1835) 15 March 1834
Bygone images and scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes from the spiceislands
of Youth and Hope—those twin realities of this phantom world!
‘Table Talk’ (1835) 10 July 1834
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind
our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the
waves behind us!
In Thomas Allsop ‘Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge’ (18 December 1831)
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
Quoted in a letter from Charles Lamb to V. Novello, 9 May 1826
3.138 Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) 1873-1954
Le monde des èmotions qu’on nomme, á la lègére, physiques.
The world of the emotions that are so lightly called physical.
‘Le Blè en herbe’ (1923) p. 161
Life as a child and then as a girl had taught her patience, hope, silence; and given her a
prisoner’s proficiency in handling these virtues as weapons.
‘Chèri’ (1920)
Let’s go out and buy playing-cards, good wine, bridge-scorers, knitting needles—all the
paraphernalia to fill a gaping void, all that’s required to disguise that monster, an old woman.
‘Chèri’ (1920)
If one wished to be perfectly sincere, one would have to admit there are two kinds of love—
well-fed and ill-fed. The rest is pure fiction.
‘La Fin de Chèri’ (1926)
3.139 Mary Collier c.1690-c.1762
So the industrious bees do hourly strive
To bring their loads of honey to the hive;
Their sordid owners always reap the gains,
And poorly recompense their toils and pains.
‘The Woman’s Labour’ (1739) p. 17
Though we all day with care our work attend,
Such is our fate, we know when ’twill end.
When evening’s come, you homeward take your way.
We, till our work is done, are forced to stay.
‘The Woman’s Labour’ (1739)
The greatest heroes that the world can know,
To women their original must owe.
‘The Three Wise Sentences, from the First Book of Esdras’ (1740) l. 132