The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (209 page)

Healey, Edna
1918–

1
She has no hinterland; in particular she has no sense of history.
of Margaret Thatcher

Denis Healey
The Time of My Life
(1989)

 
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Healy, Timothy Michael
1855–1931

1
redmond
: Gladstone is now master of the Party!
healy
: Who is to be mistress of the Party?
at the meeting of the Irish Parliamentary Party on 6 December 1890, when the Party split over Parnell's involvement in the O'Shea divorce; Healy's reference to Katherine O'Shea was particularly damaging to Parnell

Robert Kee
The Laurel and the Ivy
(1993)

 
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Heaney, Seamus
1939–

1
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it.

"Digging" (1966)

2
Don't be surprised
If I demur, for, be advised
My passport's green.
No glass of ours was ever raised
To toast
The Queen
.
rebuking the editors of The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry for including him among its authors

Open Letter
(Field Day pamphlet no. 2, 1983)

3
My heart besieged by anger, my mind a gap of danger,
I walked among their old haunts, the home ground where they bled;
And in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter
Till its oak would sprout in Derry where the thirteen men lay dead.
of Bloody Sunday, Londonderry, 30 January 1972

"The Road to Derry"

4
The famous
Northern reticence, the tight gag of place
And times: yes, yes. Of the "wee six" I sing
Where to be saved you only must save face
And whatever you say, you say nothing.

"Whatever You Say Say Nothing" (1975)

5
No death outside my immediate family has left me more bereft. No death in my lifetime has hurt poets more.

funeral oration for Ted Hughes, 3 November 1998

 
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Hearst, William Randolph
1863–1951

1
You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
message to the artist Frederic Remington in Havana, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War of 1898

attributed

 
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Heath, Edward
1916–

1
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
on the Lonrho affair

in the House of Commons, 15 May 1973

 
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Heath-Stubbs, John
1918–

1
Venerable Mother Toothache
Climb down from the white battlements,
Stop twisting in your yellow fingers
The fourfold rope of nerves.

"A Charm Against the Toothache" (1954)

 
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