The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

12.91 George Leybourne d. 1884
O he flies through the air with the greatest of ease,
This daring young man on the flying trapeze.
‘The Daring Young Man’ (1868 song)
12.92 Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919-87
He [Liberace] begins to belabour the critics announcing that he doesn’t mind what they say but
that poor George [his brother] ‘cried all the way to the bank’.
‘Collier’s’ 17 September 1954. Liberace’s ‘Autobiography’ (1973) ch. 2: ‘When the reviews are bad I tell my
staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank’)
12.93 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742-99
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the
Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a
hammering you can’t hear yourself speak.
In ‘Observer’ 18 November 1990, p. 20
12.94 Charles-Joseph, Prince de Ligne 1735-1814
Le congrés ne marche pas, il danse.
The Congress makes no progress; it dances.
In Auguste de la Garde-Chambonas ‘Souvenirs du Congrés de Vienne’ (1820) ch. 1
12.95 Beatrice Lillie 1894-1989
Never darken my Dior again!
To a waiter, who had spilled soup down her neck, in ‘Every Other Inch a Lady’ (1973) ch. 14
12.96 George Lillo 1693-1739
There’s sure no passion in the human soul,
But finds its food in music.
‘The Fatal Curiosity’ (1736) act 1, sc. 2
12.97 Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Speech, 19 May 1856
‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure
permanently, half slave and half free.
Speech, 16 June 1858.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can
not fool all the people all of the time.
Attributed, in a speech at Clinton, 8 September 1858: N. W. Stephenson ‘Autobiography of A.
Lincoln’ (1927). Attributed also to Phineas Barnum