The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

A direful death indeed they had
That would put any parent mad
But she was more than usual calm
She did not give a singel dam.
‘Journal’ p. 29
The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.
‘Journal’ p. 47
To-day I pronounced a word which should never come out of a lady’s lips it was that I called
John a Impudent Bitch.
‘Journal’ p. 51
I am going to turn over a new life and am going to be a very good girl and be obedient to Isa
Keith, here there is plenty of gooseberries which makes my teeth watter.
‘Journal’ p. 76
I hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare.
‘Journal’ p. 80
An annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of.
‘Journal’ p. 99
Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.
‘Journal’ p. 99
My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which
you was so good as to write to me.
‘Letters’ no. 1 ‘To Isabella’
O lovely O most charming pug
Thy graceful air and heavenly mug...
His noses cast is of the roman
He is a very pretty weoman
I could not get a rhyme for roman
And was oblidged to call it weoman.
‘Poems’
6.43 Robert, Marquis de Flers 1872-1927 and Arman de Caillavet 1869-1915
Dèmocratie est le nom que nous donnons au peuple toutes les fois que nous avons besoin de lui.
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
‘L’habit vert’ act 1, sc. 12, in ‘La petite illustration sèrie thèâtre’ 31 May 1913
6.44 Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun 1655-1716
I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr—’s sentiment, that he believed if a man were
permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
‘An Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Government for the Good of Mankind. In a
Letter to the Marquis of Montrose’ (1704) in ‘Political Works’ (1732) pt. 7