The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (176 page)

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Fyfe, David Maxwell
Fyleman, Rose
1877–1957
1
There are fairies at the bottom of our garden!

Fairies and Chimneys
(1918) "The Fairies" (first published in
Punch
23 May 1917)

G
Gainsborough, Thomas
1727–88
1
We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company.

last words; attributed, William B. Boulton
Thomas Gainsborough
(1905) ch. 9

Gaitskell, Hugh
1906–63
1
There are some of us…who will fight and fight and fight again to save the Party we love.

speech at Labour Party Conference, 5 October 1960

2
It means the end of a thousand years of history.
on a European federation

speech at Labour Party Conference, 3 October 1962

Gaius
(
or Caius
)
ad
c.
110–180
1
Damnosa hereditas.Ruinous inheritance.

The Institutes
bk. 2, ch. 163

Galbraith, J. K.
1908–
1
The affluent society.

title of book (1958)

2
Trickle-down theory—the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

The Culture of Contentment
(1992)

3
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

speech to President Kennedy, 2 March 1962.

Galen
ad
129–199
1
That which
is
grows, while that which
is not
becomes.

On the Natural Faculties
bk. 2, sect. 3

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