The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

6.62 Sir Boyle Roche 1743-1807

6.63 John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 1647-80 6.64 John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937

6.65 Knute Rockne 1888-1931

6.66 Gene Roddenberry 1921-91

6.67 Theodore Roethke 1908-63

6.68 Samuel Rogers 1763-1855

6.69 Thorold Rogers 1823-90

6.70 Will Rogers 1879-1935

6.71 Mme Roland 1754-93

6.72 Frederick William Rolfe (‘Baron Corvo’) 1860-1913 6.73 Richard Rolle de Hampole c.1290-1349

6.74 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli

6.75 Pierre de Ronsard 1524-85

6.76 Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 6.77 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945 6.78 Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919

6.79 Lord Rosebery (Archibald Philip Primrose, fifth Earl of Rosebery) 1847-1929 6.80 Ethel Rosenberg 1916-53 and Julius Rosenberg 1918-53

6.81 Alan S. C. Ross 1907-80

6.82 Christina Rossetti 1830-94

6.83 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-82

6.84 Gioacchino Rossini 1792-1868

6.85 Edmond Rostand 1868-1918

6.86 Jean Rostand 1894-1977

6.87 Leo Rosten 1908—

6.88 Philip Roth 1933—

6.89 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle 1760-1836 6.90 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-78

6.91 Dr Routh 1755-1854

6.92 Dan Rowan 1922-87 and Dick Martin 1923— 6.93 Nicholas Rowe 1674-1718

6.94 Helen Rowland 1875-1950 6.95 Richard Rowland c.1881-1947 6.96 Maude Royden 1876-1956

6.97 Naomi Royde-Smith c.1875-1964

6.98 Matthew Roydon fl. 1580-1622 6.99 Paul Alfred Rubens 1875-1917 6.100 Richard Rumbold c.1622-85 6.101 Damon Runyon 1884-1946 6.102 Dean Rusk 1909—

6.103 John Ruskin 1819-1900

6.104 Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William, third Earl Russell) 1872-1970 6.105 Dora Russell (Countess Russell) 1894-1986

6.106 George William Russell

6.107 Lord John Russell 1792-1878

6.108 Sir William Howard Russell 1820-1907

6.109 Ernest Rutherford (Baron Rutherford of Nelson) 1871-1937 6.110 Gilbert Ryle 1900-76

7.0 S

7.1 Rafael Sabatini 1875-1950

7.2 Oliver Sacks 1933—

7.3 Victoria (‘Vita’) Sackville-West 1892-1962 7.4 Françoise Sagan 1935—

7.5 Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve 1804-69 7.6 Antoine de Saint-Exupèry 1900-44

7.7 Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) 1870-1916 7.8 J. D. Salinger 1919—

7.9 John of Salisbury d. 1180

7.10 Lord Salisbury (Robert Gascoyne, third Marquess of Salisbury) 1830-1903

7.11 Lord Salisbury (Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, fifth Marquess of Salisbury) 1893-1972

7.12 Sallust c.86-c.35 B.C. 7.13 Anthony Sampson 1926—

7.14 Lord Samuel (Herbert Louis, first Viscount Samuel) 1870-1963 7.15 Carl Sandburg 1878-1967

7.16 Henry ‘Red’ Sanders

7.17 Martha Sansom (nèe Fowke) 1690-1736 7.18 William Sansom 1926-76

7.19 George Santayana 1863-1952

7.20 ‘Sapper’ (Herman Cyril MacNeile) 1888-1937 7.21 Sappho b. c.612 B.C.

7.22 John Singer Sargent 1856-1925

7.23 Leslie Sarony 1897-1985

7.24 Nathalie Sarraute 1902—

7.25 Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-80 7.26 Siegfried Sassoon 1886-1967

7.27 George Savile, Marquis of Halifax 7.28 Dorothy L. Sayers 1893-1957 7.29 Al Scalpone

7.30 Hugh Scanlon (Baron Scanlon) 1913—

7.31 Arthur Scargill 1938—

7.32 Age Scarpelli et al.

7.33 Friedrich von Schelling 1775-1854

7.34 Friedrich von Schiller 1759-1805

7.35 Moritz Schlick

7.36 Artur Schnabel 1882-1951

7.37 Budd Schulberg 1914—

7.38 Diane B. Schulder 1937—

7.39 E. F. Schumacher 1911-77 7.40 Carl Schurz 1829-1906

7.41 Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965

7.42 Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948

7.43 Alexander Scott c.1525-84 7.45 Robert Falcon Scott 1868-1912 7.46 Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832 7.47 Scottish Metrical Psalms 1650

7.48 Edmund Hamilton Sears 1810-76

7.49 Sir Charles Sedley c.1639-1701 7.50 Alan Seeger 1888-1916

7.51 Pete Seeger 1919—

7.52 Sir John Seeley 1834-95

7.53 Erich Segal 1937—

7.54 John Selden 1584-1654

7.55 W. C. Sellar 1898-1951 and R. J. Yeatman 1898-1968 7.56 Seneca c.4 B.C.-A.D. 65

7.57 Robert W. Service 1874-1958 7.58 William Seward 1801-72

7.59 Edward Sexby d. 1658

7.60 Anne Sexton 1928-74

7.61 James Seymour and Rian James 1899— 7.62 Thomas Shadwell c.1642-92

7.63 Peter Shaffer 1926—

7.64 Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury 1621-83 7.65 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury 1671-1713 7.66 William Shakespeare 1564-1616

7.66.1 All’s Well that Ends Well 7.66.2 Antony And Cleopatra 7.66.3 As You Like It

7.66.4 The Comedy of Errors

7.66.5 Coriolanus

7.66.6 Cymbeline

7.66.7 Hamlet

7.66.8 Henry IV, Part 1

7.66.9 Henry IV, Part 2

7.66.10 Henry V

7.66.11 Henry VI, Part 1

7.66.12 Henry VI, Part 2

7.66.13 Henry VI, Part 3

7.66.14 Henry VIII

7.66.15 Julius Caesar

7.66.16 King John

7.66.17 King Lear

7.66.18 Love’s Labour’s Los

7.66.19 Macbeth

7.66.20 Measure for Measure

7.66.21 The Merchant of Venice 7.66.22 The Merry Wives of Windsor 7.66.23 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 7.66.24 Much Ado About Nothing 7.66.25 Othello

7.66.26 Pericles, Prince Of Tyre

7.66.27 Richard II

7.66.28 Richard III

7.66.29 Romeo And Juliet

7.66.30 The Taming Of The Shrew

7.66.31 The Tempest

7.66.32 Timon Of Athens

7.66.33 Titus Andronicus

7.66.34 Troilus And Cressida

7.66.35 Twelfth Night

7.66.36 The Two Gentlemen Of Verona

7.66.37 The Winter’s Tale

7.66.38 The Passionate Pilgrim

7.66.39 The Rape Of Lucrece

7.66.40 Sonnets

7.66.41 Sonnets To Sundry Notes Of Music

7.66.42 Venus And Adonis

7.66.43 Miscellaneous

7.67 Bill Shankly 1914-81

7.68 Tom Sharpe 1928—

7.69 George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

7.70 Sir Hartley Shawcross (Baron Shawcross) 1902—

7.71 Charles Shaw-Lefevre, Viscount Eversley 1794-1888

7.72 Patrick Shaw-Stewart 1888-1917

7.73 John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham

7.74 Mary Shelley (nèe Wollstonecraft) 1797-1851

7.75 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822

7.76 William Shenstone 1714-63

7.77 E. A. Sheppard

7.78 Philip Henry Sheridan 1831-88

7.79 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816

7.80 General Sherman 1820-91

7.81 Emanuel Shinwell (Baron Shinwell) 1884-1986

7.82 James Shirley 1596-1666

7.83 The Shorter Catechism

7.84 Walter Sickert 1860-1942

7.85 Algernon Sidney 1622-83

7.86 Sir Philip Sidney 1554-86

7.87 Emmanuel Joseph Sieyés 1748-1836

7.88 Maurice Sigler 1901-61 and Al Hoffman 1902-60

7.89 Alan Sillitoe 1928—

7.90 Georges Simenon 1903-89

7.91 Paul Simon 1942—

7.92 Simonides c.556-468 B.C.

7.93 Harold Simpson

7.94 Kirke Simpson

7.95 N. F. Simpson 1919—

7.96 George R. Sims 1847-1922

7.97 Noble Sissle 1889-1975 and Eubie Blake 1883-1983

7.98 C. H. Sisson 1914—

7.99 Dame Edith Sitwell 1887-1964

7.100 Sir Osbert Sitwell 1892-1969

7.101 John Skelton c.1460-1529

7.102 B. F. Skinner 1904-90

7.103 Christopher Smart 1722-71

7.104 Elizabeth Smart 1913-86

7.105 Samuel Smiles 1812-1904

7.106 Adam Smith 1723-90

7.107 Alfred Emanuel Smith 1873-1944

7.108 Sir Cyril Smith 1928—

7.109 Dodie Smith 1896-1990

7.110 Edgar Smith 1857-1938

7.111 F. E. Smith (Earl of Birkenhead) 1872-1930

7.112 Ian Smith 1919—

7.113 Langdon Smith 1858-1918

7.114 Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946

7.115 Samuel Francis Smith 1808-9

7.116 Stevie Smith (Florence Margaret Smith) 1902-71

7.117 Sydney Smith 1771-1845

7.118 Tobias Smollett 1721-71

7.119 C. P. Snow (Baron Snow of Leicester) 1905-80

7.120 Philip Snowden (Viscount Snowden) 1864-1937

7.121 Socrates 469-399 B.C.

7.122 Solon c.630-c.555 B.C.

7.123 Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918—

7.124 William Somerville 1675-1742

7.125 Anastasio Somoza 1925-80

7.126 Stephen Sondheim 1930—

7.127 Susan Sontag 1933—

7.128 Donald Soper (Baron Soper) 1903— 7.129 Sophocles 496-406 B.C.

7.130 Charles Hamilton Sorley 1895-1915 7.131 John L. B. Soule 1815-91

7.132 Robert South 1634-1716

7.133 Thomas Southerne 1660-1746

7.134 Robert Southey 1774-1843

7.135 Robert Southwell c.1561-95 7.136 Muriel Spark 1918— 7.137 John Sparrow 1906-92

7.138 Countess Spencer (Raine Spencer) 1929—

7.139 Herbert Spencer 1820-1903

7.140 Stephen Spender 1909—

7.141 Edmund Spenser c.1552-99

7.142 Steven Spielberg 1947—

7.143 Baruch Spinoza 1632-77

7.144 Dr Benjamin Spock 1903—

7.145 William Archibald Spooner 1844-1930 7.146 Sir Cecil Spring-Rice 1859-1918 7.147 Bruce Springsteen 1949—

7.148 C. H. Spurgeon 1834-92

7.149 Sir J. C. Squire 1884-1958 7.150 Mme de Staël 1766-1817

7.151 Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) 1879-1953 7.152 Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904

7.153 Charles E. Stanton 1859-1933 7.154 Edwin Mcmasters Stanton 1814-69 7.155 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902 7.156 Frank L. Stanton 1857-1927

7.157 John Stark 1728-1822

7.158 Christina Stead 1902-83

7.159 Sir David Steel 1938—

7.160 Sir Richard Steele 1672-1729

7.161 Lincoln Steffens 1866-1936

7.162 Gertrude Stein 1874-1946

7.163 John Steinbeck 1902-68

7.164 Gloria Steinem 1934—

7.165 Sir James Fitzjames Stephen 1829-94 7.166 J. K. Stephen 1859-92

7.167 James Stephens 1882-1950

7.168 Laurence Sterne 1713-68

7.169 Wallace Stevens 1879-1955

7.170 Adlai Stevenson 1900-65

7.171 Anne Stevenson 1933—

7.172 Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-94

7.173 Caskie Stinnett 1911—

7.174 Tom Stoppard 1937—

7.175 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-96

7.176 Lord Stowell 1745-1836

7.177 Lytton Strachey 1880-1932

7.178 Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971

7.179 William Stubbs 1825-1901

7.180 G. A. Studdert Kennedy 1883-1929 7.181 Sir John Suckling 1609-42

7.182 Louis Henri Sullivan 1856-1924

7.183 Terry Sullivan

7.184 Maximilien de Bèthune, Duc de Sully 1559-1641 7.185 Arthur Hays Sulzberger 1891-1968

7.186 Edith Summerskill 1901-80

7.187 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey c.1517-47 7.188 R. S. Surtees 1803-64

7.189 David Sutton

7.190 Hannen Swaffer 1879-1962

7.191 Jonathan Swift 1667-1745

7.192 Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837-1909 7.193 Eric Sykes and Max Bygraves 1922— 7.194 John Addington Symonds 1840-93 7.195 John Millington Synge 1871-1909

7.196 Thomas Szasz 1920—

7.197 Albert von Szent-Györgyi 1893-1986

8.0 T

8.1 Tacitus A.D. c.56-after 117

8.2 Sir Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941

8.3 Nellie Talbot

8.4 Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand 1754-1838 8.5 Booth Tarkington 1869-1946

8.6 Nahum Tate 1652-1715

8.7 Nahum Tate 1652-1715 and Nicholas Brady 1659-1726 8.8 R. H. Tawney 1880-1962

8.9 A. J. P. Taylor 1906-90

8.10 Ann Taylor 1782-1866 and Jane Taylor 1783-1824 8.11 Bayard Taylor 1825-78

8.12 Jeremy Taylor 1613-67

8.13 Tom Taylor 1817-80

8.14 Norman Tebbit 1931—

8.15 Sir William Temple 1628-99

8.16 William Temple 1881-1944

8.17 Sir John Tenniel 1820-1914

8.18 Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-92 8.19 Terence c.190-159 B.C.

8.20 St Teresa of Ávila 1512-82 8.21 Tertullian A.D. c.160-c.225 8.22 A. S. J. Tessimond 1902-62

8.23 William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-63

8.24 Margaret Thatcher 1925—

8.25 Theocritus c.310-350 B.C.

8.26 Louis Adolphe Thiers 1797-1877

8.27 Thomas á Kempis c.1380-1471

8.28 St Thomas Aquinas c.1225-74

8.29 Brandon Thomas 1856-1914

8.30 Dylan Thomas 1914-53

8.31 Edward Thomas 1878-1917

8.32 Elizabeth Thomas 1675-1731

8.33 Irene Thomas

8.34 R. S. Thomas

8.35 Francis Thompson 1859-1907

8.36 Hunter S. Thompson 1939—

8.37 William Hepworth Thompson 1810-86

8.38 James Thomson 1700-48

8.39 James Thomson 1834-82

8.40 Lord Thomson (Roy Herbert Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet) 1894-1976

8.41 Henry David Thoreau 1817-62

8.42 Jeremy Thorpe 1929—

8.43 James Thurber 1894-1961

8.44 Edward, First Baron Thurlow 1731-1806

8.45 Edward, Second Baron Thurlow 1781-1829

8.46 Tibullus c.50-19 B.C.

8.47 Chidiock Tichborne c.1558-86

8.48 Thomas Tickell 1686-1740

8.49 Paul Tillich 1886-1965

8.50 Matthew Tindal 1657-1733

8.51 Dion Titheradge

8.52 Emperor Titus A.D. 39-81

8.53 John Tobin 1770-1804

8.54 Alexis De Tocqueville 1805-59

8.55 Alvin Toffler 1928—

8.56 J. R. R. Tolkien 1892-1973

8.57 Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910

8.58 Nicholas Tomalin

8.59 Barry Took and Marty Feldman

8.60 Cyril Tourneur c.1575-1626

8.61 Pete Townshend 1945—

8.62 Thomas Traherne c.1637-74

8.63 Henry Duff Traill 1842-1900

8.64 Joseph Trapp 1679-1747

8.65 Ben Travers 1886—

8.66 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree 1852-1917

8.67 Herbert Trench 1865-1923

8.68 Richard Trench, Archbishop Of Dublin 1807-86

8.69 G. M. Trevelyan 1876-1962