The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Women are really much nicer than men:
No wonder we like them.
‘Something Nasty in the Bookshop’
Should poets bicycle-pump the human heart
Or squash it flat?
Man’s love is of man’s love apart;
Girls aren’t like that.
‘Something Nasty in the Bookshop’.
1.62 Hans Christian Andersen 1805-75
‘But the Emperor has nothing on at all!’ cried a little child.
‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ in ‘Danish Fairy Legends and Tales’ (1846); first Danish collection ‘Eventyr,
fortalte for bírn’ (1835)
1.63 Maxwell Anderson 1888-1959
But it’s a long, long while
From May to December;
And the days grow short
When you reach September.
‘September Song’ (1938 song; music by Kurt Weill)
1.64 Maxwell Anderson 1888-1959 and Lawrence Stallings 1894-1968
What price glory?
Title of play (1924)
1.65 Robert Anderson 1917—
All you’re supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.
‘Tea and Sympathy’ (1957) act 1
1.66 Bishop Lancelot Andrewes 1555-1626
What shall become of me (said Righteousness)? What use of Justice, if God will do no justice,
if he spare sinners? And what use of me (saith Mercy), if he spare them not? Hard hold there was,
inasmuch as, Perii, nisi homo moriatur (said Righteousness) I die, if he die not: And Perii, nisi
Misericordiam consequature (said Mercy) if he die, I die too.
‘Of the Nativity’ (1616) Sermon 11
Verbum infans, the Word without a word, not able to speak a word...He, that (as in the 38. of
Job he saith) taketh the vast body of the main Sea, turns it to and fro, as a little child, and rolls it
about with the swaddling bands of darkness; He, to come thus into clouts, himself!
‘Of the Nativity’ (1618) Sermon 12
It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just, the
worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deep, the