The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (465 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
1588–1649
We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are on us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
Christian Charity, A Model Hereof
(sermon, 1630)
1809–94
A Star for every State, and a State for every Star.
speech on Boston Common, 27 August 1862, in
Addresses and Speeches
vol. 2 (1867)
1860–1938
When you call me that,
smile
!
"that" being "you son-of-a—"
The Virginian
(1902) ch. 2
1588–1667
I loved a lass, a fair one,
As fair as e'er was seen;
She was indeed a rare one,
Another Sheba queen.
A Description of Love
(1620) "I loved a lass, a fair one"
1889–1951
What is your aim in philosophy?—To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Philosophische Untersuchungen
(1953) pt. 1, sect. 309
What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
(1922) preface
The world is everything that is the case.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
(1922)
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
(1922)
Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
to his doctor's wife, before losing consciousness, 28 April 1951
Ray Monk
Ludwig Wittgenstein
(1990)
1881–1975
Chumps always make the best husbands…All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.
The Adventures of Sally
(1920) ch. 10
He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
The Code of the Woosters
(1938) ch. 1
It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.
The Code of the Woosters
(1938) ch. 2
I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the small of the back.
The Inimitable Jeeves
(1923) ch. 4
When Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps.
The Inimitable Jeeves
(1923) ch. 16
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of medical thought.
The Inimitable Jeeves
(1923) ch. 16
What with excellent browsing and sluicing and cheery conversation and what-not, the afternoon passed quite happily.
My Man Jeeves
(1919) "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest"
Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.
Pigs Have Wings
(1952) ch. 5
