The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘The Dolly Dialogues’ (1894) no. 12
‘You oughtn’t to yield to temptation.’ ‘Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd,’
said I.
‘The Dolly Dialogues’ (1894) no. 14
Bourgeois...is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to
what is decent.
‘The Dolly Dialogues’ (1894) no. 17
His foe was a folly and his weapon wit.
Inscription on memorial to W. S. Gilbert on the Victoria Embankment, London, 1915. Sydney Dark and
Roland Grey ‘W. S. Gilbert’ (1923)
Oh, for an hour of Herod!
At the first night of J. M. Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’ in 1904, in Denis Mackail ‘The Story of JMB’ (1941) ch. 17
8.134 Bob Hope 1903—
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
In Alan Harrington ‘Life in the Crystal Palace’ (1959) ‘The Tyranny of Farms’
8.135 Francis Hope 1938-74
And scribbled lines like fallen hopes
On backs of tattered envelopes.
‘Instead of a Poet’ (1965)
8.136 Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson) 1865-1904
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar,
Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?...
Pale hands, pink tipped, like lotus buds that float
On those cool waters where we used to dwell,
I would have rather felt you round my throat
Crushing out life; than waving me farewell!
‘The Garden of Kama’ (1901) ‘Kashmiri Song’
Less than the dust, beneath thy Chariot wheel,
Less than the rust, that never stained thy Sword,
Less than the trust thou hast in me, Oh, Lord,
Even less than these!
Less than the weed, that grows beside thy door,
Less than the speed, of hours, spent far from thee,
Less than the need thou hast in life of me.
Even less am I.
‘The Garden of Kama’ (1901) ‘Less than the Dust’
8.137 Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-89