The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

12.7 Fiorello La Guardia 1882-1947
When I make a mistake, it’s a beaut!
On the appointment of Herbert O’Brien as a judge in 1936, in William Manners ‘Patience and
Fortitude’ (1976) p. 219
12.8 R. D. Laing 1927-89
The divided self.
Title of book (1960) on schizophrenia
The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances...In the
name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind
and to be blown up in turn.
‘The Politics of Experience’ (1967) ch. 4
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.
‘The Politics of Experience’ (1967) ch. 6
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at
not being what other people feel we ought to be or assume that one is.
‘Self and Others’ (1961) ch. 10
12.9 Alphonse de Lamartine 1790-1869
Un être seul vous manque, et tout est dèpeuplè.
Only one being is wanting, and your whole world is bereft of people.
‘L’Isolement’ (1820)
Ô temps! suspend ton vol, et vous, heures propices! Suspendez votre cours.
O Time! arrest your flight, and you, propitious hours, stay your course.
‘Le Lac’ (1820) st. 6
12.10 Lady Caroline Lamb 1785-1828
Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
Writing of Byron in her journal after their first meeting at a ball in March, 1812: Elizabeth Jenkins ‘Lady
Caroline Lamb’ (1932) ch. 6.
12.11 Charles Lamb 1775-1834
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature...but the prettier the kind of a thing is,
the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
‘Essays of Elia’ (1823) ‘A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People’
If the husband be a man with whom you have lived on a friendly footing before marriage,—if
you did not come in on the wife’s side,—if you did not sneak into the house in her train, but were
an old friend in first habits of intimacy before their courtship was so much as thought on,—look
about you...Every long friendship, every old authentic intimacy, must be brought into their office
to be new stamped with their currency, as a sovereign Prince calls in the good old money that was