The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘The Physiology of Common Life’ (1859) ch. 12
The pen, in our age, weighs heavier in the social scale than the sword of a Norman Baron.
‘Ranthorpe’ (1847) epilogue
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring
up into beauty like a reed.
‘A Spanish Drama’ ch. 2
12.82 C. Day Lewis
See C. Day-Lewis (4.21)
12.83 C. S. Lewis 1898-1963
We have trained them [men] to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes
attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever
he does, whoever he is.
‘The Screwtape Letters’ (1942) no. 25
She’s the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted
expression.
‘The Screwtape Letters’ (1942) no. 26
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.
‘Suprised by Joy’ (1955) ch. 4
Leavis demands moral earnestness; I prefer morality...I’d sooner live among people who don’t
cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.
In Brian Aldiss and Kingsley Amis ‘Spectrum IV’
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which
means at the point of highest reality.
In Cyril Connolly ‘The Unquiet Grave’ (1944) ch. 31
12.84 Esther Lewis (later Clark) fl. 1747-89
Are simple women only fit
To dress, to darn, to flower, or knit,
To mind the distaff, or the spit?
Why are the needle and the pen
Thought incompatible by men?
‘A Mirror for Detractors’ (1754) l. 146
12.85 Sir George Cornewall Lewis 1806-63
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
‘Dictionary of National Biography’
12.86 John Spedan Lewis 1885-1963