The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

£40,000 a year a moderate income—such a one as a man might jog on with.
In Sir Herbert Maxwell (ed.) ‘The Creevey Papers’ (1903) vol. 2, p. 32, from a letter from Mr Creevey to
Miss Elizabeth Ord, 13 September 1821
12.14 George Lamming b. 1927
In the castle of my skin.
Title of novel (1953)
12.15 Giuseppe di Lampedusa 1896-1957
Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come é, bisogna che tutto cambi.
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
‘The Leopard’ (1957) p. 33
12.16 Sir Osbert Lancaster 1908-86
Nymphs and tribal deities of excessive female physique and alarming size balanced
precariously on broken pediments, threatening the passer-by with a shower of stone fruit.
‘Pillar to Post’ (1938) ‘Edwardian Baroque’
Fan-vaulting...from an aesthetic standpoint frequently belongs to the ‘Last-supper-carved-on-apeach-stone’
class of masterpiece.
‘Pillar to Post’ (1938) ‘Perpendicular’
All over the country the latest and most scientific methods of mass-production are being
utilized to turn out a stream of old oak beams, leaded window-panes and small discs of bottleglass,
all structural devices which our ancestors lost no time in abandoning as soon as an increase
in wealth and knowledge enabled them to do so.
‘Pillar to Post’ (1938) ‘Stockbroker’s Tudor’
12.17 Bert Lance 1931—
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
In ‘Nation’s Business’ May 1977, p. 27
12.18 Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802-38
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
‘The Poor’
12.19 Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864
Death stands above me, whispering low
I know not what into my ear;
Of his strange language all I know
Is, there is not a word of fear.
‘Death stands above me’ (1853)
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife;