The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (269 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
1906–90
They've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.
on the North Vietnamese
Mission with LeMay
(1965)
1870–1924
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
State and Revolution
(1919) ch. 5
What is to be done?
title of pamphlet (1902); originally the title of a novel (1863) by N. G. Chernyshevsky
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Report to 8th Congress, 1920
Who? Whom? [i.e. Who masters whom?]
definition of political science, meaning "Who will outstrip whom?"
in
Polnoe Sobranie Sochinenii
vol. 44 (1970) 17 October 1921 and elsewhere
A good man fallen among Fabians.
of George Bernard Shaw
Arthur Ransome
Six Weeks in Russia in 1919
(1919) "Notes of Conversations with Lenin"
Liberty is precious—so precious that it must be rationed.
Sidney and Beatrice Webb
Soviet Communism
(1936)
1940–80
Happiness is a warm gun.
title of song (1968)
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery.
at the Royal Variety Performance, 4 November 1963
1940–1980 and
McCartney, Paul
1942–
For I don't care too much for money,
For money can't buy me love.
"Can't Buy Me Love" (1964 song)
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
"Eleanor Rigby" (1966 song)
Give peace a chance.
title of song (1969)
It's been a hard day's night,
And I've been working like a dog.
"A Hard Day's Night" (1964 song)
Strawberry fields forever.
title of song (1967)
She's got a ticket to ride, but she don't care.
"Ticket to Ride" (1965 song)
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty four?
"When I'm Sixty Four" (1967 song)
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends,
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends.
"With a Little Help From My Friends" (1967 song)
(
George Galvin
) 1860–1904
Ah! what is man? Wherefore does he why? Whence did he whence? Whither is he withering?
Dan Leno Hys Booke
(1901) ch. 1
1591–1662
I have neither eye to see, nor tongue to speak here, but as the House is pleased to direct me.
to Charles I, on being asked if he had seen any of the five MPs whom the King had ordered to be arrested, 4 January 1642
John Rushworth
Historical Collections. The Third Part
vol. 2 (1692).
