The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

And the children stood watching them out of the town.
‘The Three Fishers’
For men must work, and women must weep,
And there’s little to earn, and many to keep,
Though the harbour bar be moaning.
‘The Three Fishers’
When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away:
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.
‘Young and Old’ (from ‘The Water Babies’, 1863)
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the
very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
‘Health and Education’ (1874) p. 20
We have used the Bible as if it was a constable’s handbook—an opium-dose for keeping beasts
of burden patient while they are being overloaded.
‘Letters to the Chartists’ no. 2.
As thorough an Englishman as ever coveted his neighbour’s goods.
‘The Water Babies’ (1863) ch. 4
Eustace is a man no longer; he is become a thing, a tool, a Jesuit.
‘Westward Ho!’ (1855) ch. 23
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
Reviewing J. A. Froude’s History of England, in ‘Macmillan’s Magazine’ January 1864
11.38 Hugh Kingsmill (Hugh Kingsmill Lunn) 1889-1949
What still alive at twenty-two,
A clean upstanding chap like you?
Sure, if your throat ’tis hard to slit,
Slit your girl’s, and swing for it.
Like enough, you won’t be glad,
When they come to hang you, lad:
But bacon’s not the only thing
That’s cured by hanging from a string.
‘Two Poems, after A. E. Housman’ (1933) no. 1
’Tis Summer Time on Bredon,
And now the farmers swear: