The Oxford dictionary of modern quotations (2 page)

Maurice Baring 2.15

Ronnie Barker 2.16

Frederick R. Barnard 2.17

Clive Barnes 2.18

Julian Barnes 2.19

Peter Barnes 2.20

Sir J. M. Barrie 2.21

Ethel Barrymore 2.22

John Barrymore 2.23

Lionel Bart 2.24

Karl Barth 2.25

Roland Barthes 2.26

Bernard Baruch 2.27

Jacques Barzun 2.28

L. Frank Baum 2.29

Vicki Baum 2.30

Sir Arnold Bax 2.31

Sir Beverley Baxter 2.32

Beachcomber 2.33

David, First Earl Beatty 2.34

Lord Beaverbrook (William Maxwell Aitken, first Baron Beaverbrook) 2.35

Carl Becker 2.36

Samuel Beckett 2.37

Harry Bedford and Terry Sullivan 2.38

Sir Thomas Beecham 2.39

Sir Max Beerbohm 2.40

Brendan Behan 2.41

John Hay Beith 2.42

Clive Bell 2.43

Henry Bellamann 2.44

Hilaire Belloc 2.45

Saul Bellow 2.46

Robert Benchley 2.47

Julien Benda 2.48

Stephen Vincent Ben�t 2.49

William Rose Ben�t 2.50

Tony Benn 2.51

George Bennard 2.52

Alan Bennett 2.53

Arnold Bennett 2.54

Ada Benson and Fred Fisher 2.55

A. C. Benson 2.56

Stella Benson 2.57

Edmund Clerihew Bentley 2.58

Eric Bentley 2.59

Nikolai Berdyaev 2.60

Lord Charles Beresford 2.61

Henri Bergson 2.62

Irving Berlin (Israel Baline) 2.63

Sir Isaiah Berlin 2.64

Georges Bernanos 2.65

Jeffrey Bernard 2.66

Eric Berne 2.67

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward 2.68

Chuck Berry 2.69

John Berryman 2.70

Pierre Berton 2.71

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg 2.72

Sir John Betjeman 2.73

Aneurin Bevan 2.74

William Henry Beveridge (First Baron Beveridge) 2.75

Ernest Bevin 2.76

Georges Bidault 2.77

Ambrose Bierce 2.78

Laurence Binyon 2.79

Nigel Birch (Baron Rhyl) 2.80

John Bird 2.81

Earl of Birkenhead 2.82

Lord Birkett (William Norman Birkett, Baron Birkett) 2.83

Eric Blair 2.84

Eubie Blake (James Hubert Blake) 2.85

Lesley Blanch 2.86

Alan Bleasdale 2.87

Karen Blixen 2.88

Edmund Blunden 2.89

Alfred Blunt (Bishop of Bradford) 2.90

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 2.91

Ronald Blythe 2.92

Enid Blyton 2.93

Louise Bogan 2.94

Humphrey Bogart 2.95

John B. Bogart 2.96

Niels Bohr 2.97

Alan Bold 2.98

Robert Bolt 2.99

Andrew Bonar Law 2.100

Carrie Jacobs Bond 2.101

Sir David Bone 2.102

Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2.103

Sonny Bono (Salvatore Bono) 2.104

Daniel J. Boorstin 2.105

James H. Boren 2.106

Jorge Luis Borges 2.107

Max Born 2.108

John Collins Bossidy 2.109

Gordon Bottomley 2.110

Horatio Bottomley 2.111

Sir Harold Edwin Boulton 2.112

Elizabeth Bowen 2.113

David Bowie (David Jones) 2.114

Sir Maurice Bowra 2.115

Charles Boyer 2.116

Lord Brabazon (Baron Brabazon of Tara) 2.117

Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. 2.118

Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and Walter Reisch 2.119

F. H. Bradley 2.120

Omar Bradley 2.121

Caryl Brahms (Doris Caroline Abrahams) and S. J. Simon (Simon Jasha Skidelsky) 2.122

John Braine 2.123

Ernest Bramah (Ernest Bramah Smith) 2.124

Georges Braque 2.125

John Bratby 2.126

Irving Brecher 2.127

Bertolt Brecht 2.128

Gerald Brenan 2.129

Aristide Briand 2.130

Vera Brittain 2.131

David Broder 2.132

Jacob Bronowski 2.133

Rupert Brooke 2.134

Anita Brookner 2.135

Mel Brooks 2.136

Heywood Broun 2.137

H. Rap Brown 2.138

Helen Gurley Brown 2.139

Ivor Brown 2.140

John Mason Brown 2.141

Lew Brown (Louis Brownstein) 2.142

Nacio Herb Brown 2.143

Cecil Browne 2.144

Sir Frederick Browning 2.145

Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider) 2.146

Anita Bryant 2.147

Martin Buber 2.148

John Buchan (Baron Tweedsmuir) 2.149

Frank Buchman 2.150

Gene Buck (Edward Eugene Buck) and Herman Ruby 2.151

Richard Buckle 2.152

Arthur Buller 2.153

Ivor Bulmer-Thomas 2.154

Luis Bu�uel 2.155

Anthony Burgess 2.156

Johnny Burke 2.157

John Burns 2.158

William S. Burroughs 2.159

Benjamin Hapgood Burt 2.160

Nat Burton 2.161

R. A. Butler (Baron Butler of Saffron Walden) 2.162

Ralph Butler and Noel Gay (Richard Moxon Armitage) 2.163

Samuel Butler 2.164

Max Bygraves 2.165

James Branch Cabell 2.166

C 3.0

Irving Caesar 3.1

John Cage 3.2

James Cagney 3.3

Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen) 3.4

James M. Cain 3.5

Michael Caine (Maurice Joseph Micklewhite) 3.6

Sir Joseph Cairns 3.7

Charles Calhoun 3.8

James Callaghan (Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff) 3.9

Joseph Campbell (Seosamh MacCathmhaoil) 3.10

Mrs Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Campbell) 3.11

Roy Campbell 3.12

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 3.13

Albert Camus 3.14

Elias Canetti 3.15

Hughie Cannon 3.16

John R. Caples 3.17

Al Capone 3.18

Truman Capote 3.19

Al Capp 3.20

Ethna Carbery (Anna MacManus) 3.21

Hoagy Carmichael (Hoagland Howard Carmichael) 3.22

Stokely Carmichael and Charles Vernon Hamilton 3.23

Dale Carnegie 3.24

J. L. Carr 3.25

Edward Carson (Baron Carson) 3.26

Jimmy Carter 3.27

Sydney Carter 3.28

Pablo Casals 3.29

Ted Castle (Baron Castle of Islington) 3.30

Harry Castling and C. W. Murphy 3.31

Fidel Castro 3.32

Willa Cather 3.33

Mr Justice Caulfield (Sir Bernard Caulfield) 3.34

Charles Causley 3.35

Constantine Cavafy 3.36

Edith Cavell 3.37

Lord David Cecil 3.38

Patrick Reginald Chalmers 3.39

Joseph Chamberlain 3.40

Neville Chamberlain 3.41

Harry Champion 3.42

Raymond Chandler 3.43

Coco Chanel 3.44

Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin) 3.45

Arthur Chapman 3.46

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin 3.47

Prince Charles (Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales) 3.48

Apsley Cherry-Garrard 3.49

G. K. Chesterton 3.50

Maurice Chevalier 3.51

Erskine Childers 3.52

Charles Chilton 3.53

Noam Chomsky 3.54

Dame Agatha Christie 3.55

Frank E. Churchill 3.56

Sir Winston Churchill 3.57

Count Galeazzo Ciano 3.58

Brian Clark 3.59

Kenneth Clark (Baron Clark) 3.60

Arthur C. Clarke 3.61

Grant Clarke and Edgar Leslie 3.62

Eldridge Cleaver 3.63

John Cleese 3.64

John Cleese and Connie Booth 3.65

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn 3.66

Georges Clemenceau 3.67

Harlan Cleveland 3.68

Richard Cobb 3.69

Claud Cockburn 3.70

Jean Cocteau 3.71

Lenore Coffee 3.72

George M. Cohan 3.73

Desmond Coke 3.74

Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) 3.75

R. G. Collingwood 3.76

Charles Collins and Fred W. Leigh 3.77

Charles Collins and Fred Murray 3.78

Charles Collins, E. A. Sheppard, and Fred Terry 3.79

John Churton Collins 3.80

Michael Collins 3.81

Betty Comden and Adolph Green 3.82

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett 3.83

Billy Connolly 3.84

Cyril Connolly 3.85

James Connolly 3.86

Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski) 3.87

Shirley Conran 3.88

A. J. Cook 3.89

Dan Cook 3.90

Peter Cook 3.91

Calvin Coolidge 3.92

Ananda Coomaraswamy 3.93

Alfred Duff Cooper (Viscount Norwich) 3.94

Tommy Cooper 3.95

Wendy Cope 3.96

Aaron Copland 3.97

Bernard Cornfeld 3.98

Frances Cornford 3.99

Francis Macdonald Cornford 3.100

Baron Pierre de Coubertin 3.101

�mile Cou� 3.102

No�l Coward 3.103

Hart Crane 3.104

James Creelman and Ruth Rose 3.105

Bishop Mandell Creighton 3.106

Quentin Crisp 3.107

Julian Critchley 3.108

Richmal Crompton (Richmal Crompton Lamburn) 3.109

Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby) 3.110

Bing Crosby, Roy Turk, and Fred Ahlert 3.111

Richard Crossman 3.112

Aleister Crowley 3.113

Leslie Crowther 3.114

Robert Crumb 3.115

Bruce Frederick Cummings 3.116

e. e. cummings 3.117

William Thomas Cummings 3.118

Will Cuppy 3.119

Edwina Currie 3.120

Michael Curtiz 3.121

Lord Curzon (George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) 3.122

D 4.0

Paul Daniels 4.1

Charles Brace Darrow 4.2

Clarence Darrow 4.3

Sir Francis Darwin 4.4

Jules Dassin 4.5

Worton David and Lawrence Wright 4.6

Jack Davies and Ken Annakin 4.7

W. H. Davies 4.8

Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis) 4.9

Lord Dawson of Penn (Bertrand Edward Dawson, Viscount Dawson of Penn) 4.10

C. Day-Lewis 4.11

Simone de Beauvoir 4.12

Edward de Bono 4.13

Eugene Victor Debs 4.14

Edgar Degas 4.15

Charles de Gaulle 4.16

J. de Knight (James E. Myers) and M. Freedman 4.17

Walter de la Mare 4.18

Shelagh Delaney 4.19

Jack Dempsey 4.20

Nigel Dennis 4.21

Buddy De Sylva (George Gard De Sylva) and Lew Brown 4.22

Peter De Vries 4.23

Lord Dewar 4.24

Sergei Diaghilev 4.25

Paul Dickson 4.26

Joan Didion 4.27

Howard Dietz 4.28

William Dillon 4.29

Ernest Dimnet 4.30

Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) 4.31

Mort Dixon 4.32

Milovan Djilas 4.33

Austin Dobson (Henry Austin Dobson) 4.34

Ken Dodd 4.35

J. P. Donleavy 4.36

Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith 4.37

Keith Douglas 4.38

Norman Douglas 4.39

Sir Alec Douglas-Home 4.40

Caroline Douglas-Home 4.41

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4.42

Maurice Drake 4.43

William A. Drake 4.44

John Drinkwater 4.45

Alexander Dubcek 4.46

Al Dubin 4.47

W. E. B. DuBois 4.48

Georges Duhamel 4.49

Raoul Duke 4.50

John Foster Dulles 4.51

Dame Daphne du Maurier 4.52

Isadora Duncan 4.53

Ian Dunlop 4.54

Jimmy Durante 4.55

Leo Durocher 4.56

Ian Dury 4.57

Lillian K. Dykstra 4.58

Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) 4.59

E 5.0

Stephen T. Early 5.1

Clint Eastwood 5.2

Abba Eban 5.3

Sir Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) 5.4

Clarissa Eden (Countess of Avon) 5.5

Marriott Edgar 5.6

Duke of Edinburgh 5.7

Thomas Alva Edison 5.8

John Maxwell Edmonds 5.9

King Edward VII 5.10

King Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) 5.11

John Ehrlichman 5.12

Albert Einstein 5.13

Dwight D. Eisenhower 5.14

T. S. Eliot 5.15

Queen Elizabeth II 5.16

Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 5.17

Alf Ellerton 5.18

Havelock Ellis (Henry Havelock Ellis) 5.19

Paul Eluard 5.20

Sir William Empson 5.21

Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch 5.22

Susan Ertz 5.23

Dudley Erwin 5.24

Howard Estabrook and Harry Behn 5.25

Gavin Ewart 5.26

William Norman Ewer 5.27

F 6.0

Clifton Fadiman 6.1

Eleanor Farjeon 6.2

King Farouk of Egypt 6.3

William Faulkner 6.4

George Fearon 6.5

James Fenton 6.6

Edna Ferber 6.7

Kathleen Ferrier 6.8

Eric Field 6.9

Dorothy Fields 6.10

Dame Gracie Fields (Grace Stansfield) 6.11

W. C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield) 6.12

Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink, and Dean Riesner 6.13

Ronald Firbank 6.14

Fred Fisher 6.15

H. A. L. Fisher 6.16

John Arbuthnot Fisher (Baron Fisher) 6.17

Marve Fisher 6.18

Albert H. Fitz 6.19

F. Scott Fitzgerald 6.20

Zelda Fitzgerald 6.21

Robert Fitzsimmons 6.22

Bud Flanagan (Chaim Reeven Weintrop) 6.23

Michael Flanders and Donald Swann 6.24

James Elroy Flecker 6.25

Ian Fleming 6.26

Robert, Marquis de Flers and Arman de Caillavet 6.27

Dario Fo 6.28

Marshal Ferdinand Foch 6.29

J. Foley 6.30

Michael Foot 6.31

Anna Ford 6.32

Gerald Ford 6.33

Henry Ford 6.34

Lena Guilbert Ford 6.35

Howell Forgy 6.36

E. M. Forster 6.37

Bruce Forsyth 6.38

Harry Emerson Fosdick 6.39

Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-Fran�ois Thibault) 6.40

Georges Franju 6.41

Sir James George Frazer 6.42

Stan Freberg 6.43

Arthur Freed 6.44

Ralph Freed 6.45

Cliff Freeman 6.46

John Freeman 6.47

Marilyn French 6.48

Sigmund Freud 6.49

Max Frisch 6.50

Charles Frohman 6.51