The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (456 page)

West, Rebecca
1892–1983

1
Having watched the form of our traitors for a number of years, I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

The Meaning of Treason
(1982 ed.), introduction

2
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

in
The Clarion
14 November 1913

3
People would rather be led to
perdition
by a man, than to
victory
by a woman.
in conversation in 1979, just before Margaret Thatcher's first election victory

in
Sunday Telegraph
17 January 1988

 
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Westmorland, John Fane, Lord
1759–1841

1
Merit
, indeed!…We are come to a pretty pass if they talk of
merit
for a bishopric.

noted in Lady Salisbury's diary, 9 December 1835

 
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Weston, R. P.
1878–1936 and
Lee, Bert
1880–1947

1
Good-bye-ee!—Good-bye-ee!
Wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eye-ee.

"Good-bye-ee!" (
c.
1915 song)

 
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Wetherell, Charles
1770–1846

1
Then there is my noble and biographical friend who has added a new terror to death.
of Lord Campbell

Lord St Leonards
Misrepresentations in Campbell's Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham
(1869).

 
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Wharton, Edith
1862–1937

1
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

The Age of Innocence
(1920) bk. 1, ch. 1

2
Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

Xingu and Other Stories
(1916) "Xingu"

 
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Wharton, Thomas, Lord
1648–1715

1
Ara! but why does King James stay behind?
Lilli burlero bullen a la
Ho! by my shoul 'tis a Protestant wind.

"A New Song" (written 1687)

2
I sang a king out of three kingdoms.
said to have been Wharton's boast after "A New Song" became an propaganda weapon against James II

in
Dictionary of National Biography
(1917–)

 
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