The Oxford dictionary of modern quotations (83 page)

In Second Earl of Birkenhead Frederick Edwin Earl of Birkenhead (1933)

vol. 1, ch. 9

Mr justice darling: And who is George Robey?

F. e. smith: Mr George Robey is the Darling of the music halls, m'lud.

In A. E. Wilson The Prime Minister of Mirth (1956) ch. 1

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout

hearts and sharp swords.

Rectorial Address, Glasgow University, 7 Nov. 1923, in The Times 8 Nov.

1923

19.83 Ian Smith =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1919-

Let me say again, I don't believe in black majority rule in Rhodesia--not

in a thousand years. I believe in blacks and whites working together.

Broadcast speech, 20 Mar. 1976, in Sunday Times 21 Mar. 1976

19.84 Logan Pearsall Smith =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1865-1946

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar

taste.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and,

after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any

danger of their coming true!

Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no

avail.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can

possibly imagine.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you

can't hear what they say?

Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older

people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts

of theirs at all amusing.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is

no God.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the

proceeds.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just

as big as they can pay for.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt

to walk straight into the gutter.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

Married women are kept women, and they are beginning to find it out.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.

Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich

people.

Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the

rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep

absolutely sober.

Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy

it.

Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

All Trivia (1933) "Afterthoughts" pt. 5

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half-jokingly if he had

discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning, at

least for me, there is one thing that matters--to set a chime of words

tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

Cyril Connolly "Logan Pearsall Smith," obituary notice in New Statesman

9 Mar. 1946

19.85 Stevie Smith (Florence Margaret Smith) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1902-1971

This Englishwoman is so refined

She has no bosom and no behind.

A Good Time was had by All (1937) "This Englishwoman"

Nobody heard him, the dead man,

But still he lay moaning:

I was much further out than you thought

And not waving but drowning.

Poor chap, he always loved larking

And now he's dead

It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,

They said.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always

(Still the dead one lay moaning)

I was much too far out all my life

And not waving but drowning.

Not Waving but Drowning (1957) title poem

People who are always praising the past

And especially the times of faith as best

Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages

And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

Not Waving but Drowning (1957) "The Past"

There you are you see, quite simple. If you cannot have your dear husband

for a comfort and a delight, for a breadwinner and a crosspatch, for

a sofa, chair or a hot-water bottle, one can use him as a Cross to be

Borne.

Novel on Yellow Page (1936) p. 24

Oh I am a cat that likes to

Gallop about doing good.

Scorpion and Other Poems (1972) "The Galloping Cat"

I long for the Person from Porlock

To bring my thoughts to an end,

I am growing impatient to see him

I think of him as a friend.

Selected Poems (1962) "Thoughts about the 'Person from Porlock'"

Private Means is dead

God rest his soul, officers and fellow-rankers said.

Selected Poems (1962) "Private Means is Dead"

Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy?

She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy

When I am happy I live and despise writing

For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting.

Selected Poems (1964) "My Muse"

19.86 John Snagge =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1904-

His [Snagge's] famous gaffe [in a commentary on the Boat Race] to the

effect that he couldn't see who was in the lead but it was either Oxford

or Cambridge he had no recollection of until he heard a recording

afterwards.

C. Dodd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (1983) ch. 14

19.87 C. P. Snow (Baron Snow of Leicester) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1905-1980

The official world, the corridors of power, the dilemmas of conscience and

egotism--she disliked them all.

Homecomings (1956) ch. 22

I believe the intellectual life of the whole of western society is

increasingly being split into two polar groups... Literary intellectuals

at one pole--at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the

physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959 Rede Lecture) p. 3

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the

standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who

have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the

illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have

asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of

Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative.

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959 Rede Lecture) p. 14

19.88 Philip Snowden (Viscount Snowden) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1864-1937

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should

have its old speeches burnt.

In C. E. Bechofer Roberts ("Ephesian") Philip Snowden (1929) ch. 12

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party: It is the

most fantastic and impracticable programme ever put before the electors.

All the derelict industries are to be taken over by the State, and the

taxpayer is to shoulder the losses. The banks and financial houses are to

be placed under national ownership and control, which means, I suppose,

that they are to be run by a joint committee of the Labour Party and the

Trades Union Council. Your investments are to be ordered by some board,

and your foreign investments are to be mobilized to finance this madcap

policy. This is not Socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

BBC radio election broadcast, 17 Oct. 1931, in The Times 19 Oct. 1931

19.89 Alexander Solzhenitsyn =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1918-

Meanwhile no such thing as INTERNAL AFFAIRS remains on our crowded Earth.

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his

business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what

is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but

indifferent to what happens in the East.

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1970, in John B. Dunlop, Richard Haugh and Alexis

Klimoff (eds.) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Critical Essays and Documentary

Materials (1974) p. 574

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins

to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand

than Martians.

(Cancer Ward, 1968) pt. 2, ch. 32

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away

from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in

your power--he's free again.

(The First Circle, 1968) ch. 17

Yes, we are still the prisoners of communism, and yet, for us in Russia,

communism is a dead dog, while for many people in the West it is still

living lion.

Broadcast on BBC Russian Service, in Listener 15 Feb. 1979

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar

of the State.

1974 interview, printed in appendix to (The Oak and the Calf, 1975)

19.90 Anastasio Somoza =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1925-1980

Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.

Reply to accusation of ballot-rigging, in Guardian 17 June 1977

19.91 Stephen Sondheim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1930-

Everything's coming up roses.

Title of song (1959; music by Jule Styne)

Send in the clowns.

Title of song (1973)

19.92 Susan Sontag =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1933-

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Evergreen Review Dec. 1964

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art

to its content, and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art.

Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

Evergreen Review Dec. 1964

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and

eventually in one's own.

New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an

interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly

stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

New York Review of Books 23 June 1977

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone

who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the

kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good

passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to

identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

New York Review of Books 26 Jan. 1978

The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare,

parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of

women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballet et al, don't redeem what this

particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the

cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it alone--its

ideologies and inventions--which eradicates autonomous civilizations

wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet,

which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

Partisan Review Winter 1967, p. 57

19.93 Donald Soper (Baron Soper) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1903-

The quality of debate [in the House of Lords] is pretty high--and it is,

I think, good evidence of life after death.

Radio interview, in Listener 17 Aug. 1978

19.94 Charles Hamilton Sorley =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1895-1915

When you see millions of the mouthless dead

Across your dreams in pale battalions go,

Say not soft things as other men have said,

That you'll remember. For you need not so.

Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know

It is not curses heaped on each gashed head?

Marlborough and Other Poems (1916) "A Sonnet"

19.95 Henry D. Spalding =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

d. 1990

I like Ike.

US button badge first used in 1947 when General Eisenhower was seen as

a potential presidential nominee, in New Republic 27 Oct. 1947

19.96 Muriel Spark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1918-

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

The Comforters (1957) ch. 6

"I am putting old heads on your young shoulders," Miss Brodie had told

them at that time, "and all my pupils are the cr�me de la cr�me."

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) ch. 1

Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) ch. 1

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on

the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may

occur. You must live it to the full.

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) ch. 1

19.97 John Sparrow =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1906-

That indefatigable and unsavoury engine of pollution, the dog.

Letter in The Times 30 Sept. 1975

19.98 Countess Spencer (Raine Spencer) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1929-

Alas, for our towns and cities. Monstrous carbuncles of concrete have

erupted in gentle Georgian Squares.

The Spencers on Spas (1983) p. 14. Cf. Prince Charles 50:2

19.99 Sir Stanley Spencer =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1891-1959

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.

In letter from Spencer's daughter Shirin, Observer 7 Feb. 1988

19.100 Stephen Spender =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1909-

Never being, but always at the edge of Being.

Poems (1933) no. 10

My parents kept me from children who were rough

And who threw words like stones and who wore torn clothes.

Poems (1933) no. 12

What I had not foreseen

Was the gradual day

Weakening the will

Leaking the brightness away.

Poems (1933) no. 13

Who live under the shadow of a war,

What can I do that matters?

Poems (1933) no. 17

The names of those who in their lives fought for life

Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre.

Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun,

And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

Poems (1933) no. 23 "I think continually of those who were truly great"

After the first powerful plain manifesto

The black statement of pistons, without more fuss

But gliding like a queen, she leaves the station.

Poems (1933) no. 26 "The Express"

Now over these small hills they have built the concrete

That trails black wire:

Pylons, those pillars

Bare like nude, giant girls that have no secret.

Poems (1933) no. 28 "The Pylons"

Consider: only one bullet in ten thousand kills a man.

Ask: was so much expenditure justified

On the death of one so young and so silly

Stretched under the olive trees, Oh, world, Oh, death?

Stephen Spender and John Lehmann (eds.) Poems for Spain (1939) "Regum

Ultimo Ratio"

...their collected

Hearts wound up with love, like little watch springs.

Still Centre (1939) "The Past Values"

People sometimes divide others into those you laugh at and those you laugh

with. The young Auden was someone you could laugh-at-with.

W. H. Auden (address delivered at Auden's memorial service at Christ

Church Cathedral, Oxford, 27 Oct. 1973)

19.101 Oswald Spengler =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1880-1936

Der Sozialismus ist nichts als der Kapitalismus der Unterklasse.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Jahre der Entscheidung (The Hour of Decision, 1933) pt. 1

19.102 Steven Spielberg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1947-

Close encounters of the third kind.

Title of film (1977)

19.103 Dr Benjamin Spock =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1903-

You know more than you think you do.

Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946) [later Baby and Child

Care ], opening words

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

Dr Spock on Vietnam (1968) ch. 7

19.104 William Archibald Spooner =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1844-1930

Mr Spooner has a habit of transferring his syllables, so that it is no

unusual experience for the members of New College to hear their late Dean

give out in chapel a well-known sentence in the unintelligible guise of

"Kinkering Kongs their tykles tate."

Echo 4 May 1892

A famous New College personality...was Warden Spooner.... "You have tasted

your worm," he is reputed to have said to an undergraduate, "you have

hissed my mystery lectures, and you must leave by the first town drain."

He was also responsible for proposing a toast to "our queer old dean."

Oxford University What's What (1948) p. 8 (William Hayter in Spooner

(1977) ch. 6 maintains these sayings are apocryphal)

Mr Huxley assures me that it's no farther from the north coast of

Spitzbergen to the North Pole than it is from Land's End to John of Gaunt.

Julian Huxley in SEAC (Calcutta) 27 Feb. 1944

You will find as you grow older that the weight of rages will press harder

and harder upon the employer.

In William Hayter Spooner (1977) ch. 6

Poor soul, very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death--eaten

by missionaries--poor soul!

In William Hayter Spooner (1977) ch. 6

19.105 Sir Cecil Spring Rice =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1859-1918

I vow to thee, my country--all earthly things above--

Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love,

The love that asks no question: the love that stands the test,

That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best:

The love that never falters, the love that pays the price,

The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.

Poems (1920) "I Vow to Thee, My Country"

And there's another country, I've heard of long ago--

Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know.

Poems (1920) "I Vow to Thee, My Country"

And her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are Peace.

Poems (1920) "I Vow to Thee, My Country"

I am the Dean of Christ Church, Sir:

There's my wife; look well at her.

She's the Broad and I'm the High;

We are the University.

The Masque of Balliol in W. G. Hiscock (ed.) The Balliol Rhymes (1939)

p. 29

19.106 Bruce Springsteen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1949-

We gotta get out while we're young,

'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Born to Run (1975 song)

19.107 Sir J. C. Squire =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1884-1958

But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

M. Baring et al. One Hundred and One Ballades (1931 "Ballade of Soporific

Absorption"

It did not last: the Devil howling "Ho!

Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.

Poems (1926) "In continuation of Pope on Newton." Cf. Oxford Dictionary

of Quotations (1979) 378:7

19.108 Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1879-1953

The State is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break

the resistance of the adversaries of that class.

Foundations of Leninism (1924) section 4/6

Mr Churchill, Mr Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say the Pope

had?

At the Potsdam Conference, reported by Harry S. Truman in speech to

American Association for the Advancement of Science, in New York Times

14 Sept. 1948, p. 24 (reporting Stalin's reaction to Churchill's

statement that the Pope would not like the Communists to take over the

Catholic part of Poland)

First of all there is the question: Can Socialism possibly be established

in one country alone by that country's unaided strength? The question

must be answered in the affirmative.

Problems of Leninism (1926) ch. 6

19.109 Charles E. Stanton =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1859-1933

Lafayette, nous voila!

Lafayette, we are here.

At the tomb of Lafayette in Paris, 4 July 1917, in New York Tribune

6 Sept. 1917

19.110 Frank L. Stanton =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1857-1927

Sweetes' li'l' feller,

Everybody knows;

Dunno what to call him,

But he's mighty lak' a rose!

Mighty Lak' a Rose (1901 song; music by Ethelbert Nevin)

19.111 Dame Freya Stark =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1893-

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can

always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

The Valleys of the Assassins (1934) ch. 2

19.112 Enid Starkie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1897-1970

Unhurt people are not much good in the world.

Letter, 18 June 1943, in Joanna Richardson Enid Starkie (1973) pt. 6,

ch. 18

19.113 Christina Stead =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1902-1983

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among

themselves there wouldn't be enough to go round.

House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"

19.114 Sir David Steel =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1938-

I have the good fortune to be the first Liberal leader for over half

a century who is able to say to you at the end of our annual assembly: go

back to your constituencies and prepare for government.

Speech at Liberal Party Assembly, Llandudno, 18 Sept. 1981, in The Times

19 Sept. 1981

19.115 Lincoln Steffens =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1866-1936

I have seen the future; and it works.

Letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919, in Letters (1938) vol. 1, p. 463

(describing a visit to the Soviet Union in 1919; cf. Steffens's

Autobiography (1931) ch. 18: "So you've been over into Russia?" said

Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, "I have been over into the

future, and it works")

19.116 Gertrude Stein =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1874-1946

Hemingway...brought the manuscript he intended sending to America. He

handed it to Gertrude Stein. He had added to his stories a little story of

meditations and in these he said that The Enormous Room was the greatest

book he had ever read. It was then that Gertrude Stein said, Hemingway,

remarks are not literature.

Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) ch. 7

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.

Said of Ernest Hemingway in James R. Mellow Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein

and Company (1974) ch. 16

Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all

considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very

frightening.

Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much

doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have

come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not

there, there is no there there.

Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 4

Ezra Pound failed to impress her [Stein].... She said he was a village

explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

Janet Hobhouse Everyone who was Anybody (1975) ch. 6