The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (222 page)

Hood, Thomas
1799–1845

1
The bleak wind of March
Made her tremble and shiver;
But not the dark arch,
Or the black flowing river.

"The Bridge of Sighs" (1844)

2
Mad from life's history,
Glad to death's mystery,
Swift to be hurled.

"The Bridge of Sighs" (1844)

3
And Eugene Aram walked between,
With gyves upon his wrist.

"The Dream of Eugene Aram" (1829)

4
For here I leave my second leg,
And the Forty-second Foot!

"Faithless Nelly Gray" (1826)

5
They went and told the sexton, and
The sexton tolled the bell.

"Faithless Sally Brown" (1826)

6
I remember, I remember,
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn.

"I Remember" (1826)

7
She stood breast high amid the corn,
Clasped by the golden light of morn,

"Ruth" (1827).

8
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt.
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the "Song of the Shirt".

"The Song of the Shirt" (1843)

9
The sedate, sober, silent, serious, sad-coloured sect.
of Quakers

Comic Annual
(1839) "The Doves and the Crows"

 
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Hooker, Richard
c.
1554–1600

1
Alteration though it be from worse to better hath in it inconveniences, and those weighty.

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
(1593) bk. 4.

 
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Hooper, Ellen Sturgis
1816–41

1
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty.

"Beauty and Duty" (1840)

 
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Hoover, Herbert
1874–1964

1
Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
on the Eighteenth Amendment enacting Prohibition

letter to Senator W. H. Borah, 23 February 1928

2
The American system of rugged individualism.

speech in New York City, 22 October 1928

3
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
sometimes paraphrased as, "a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot"

speech, 22 October 1928.

4
The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities, a thousand towns.
on proposals "to reduce the protective tariff to a competitive tariff for revenue"

speech, 31 October 1932

 
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Hope, Anthony
1863–1933

1
Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

The Dolly Dialogues
(1894) no. 12

2
Oh, for an hour of Herod!
at the first night of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in 1904

Denis Mackail
The Story of JMB
(1941) ch. 17

 
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Hope, Bob
1903–

1
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

In Alan Harrington
Life in the Crystal Palace
(1959) "The Tyranny of Farms"

2
Well, I'm still here.
after erroneous reports of his death, marked by tributes paid to him in Congress

in
Mail on Sunday
7 June 1998 "Quotes of the Week"

 
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