The Oxford dictionary of modern quotations (4 page)

Mao Tse-Tung 13.55

Edwin Markham 13.56

Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham 13.57

Johnny Marks 13.58

Don Marquis 13.59

Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot 13.60

Arthur Marshall 13.61

Thomas R. Marshall 13.62

Dean Martin 13.63

Holt Marvell 13.64

Chico Marx 13.65

Groucho Marx 13.66

Queen Mary 13.67

Eric Maschwitz 13.68

John Masefield 13.69

Donald Mason 13.70

Sir James Mathew 13.71

Melissa Mathison 13.72

Henri Matisse 13.73

Reginald Maudling 13.74

W. Somerset Maugham 13.75

Bill Mauldin 13.76

James Maxton 13.77

John May 13.78

Percy Mayfield 13.79

Charles H. Mayo 13.80

Margaret Mead 13.81

Shepherd Mead 13.82

Hughes Mearns 13.83

Dame Nellie Melba (Helen Porter Mitchell) 13.84

H. L. Mencken 13.85

David Mercer 13.86

Johnny Mercer 13.87

Bob Merrill 13.88

Dixon Lanier Merritt 13.89

Viola Meynell 13.90

Princess Michael of Kent 13.91

George Mikes 13.92

Edna St Vincent Millay 13.93

Alice Duer Miller 13.94

Arthur Miller 13.95

Henry Miller 13.96

Jonathan Miller 13.97

Spike Milligan (Terence Alan Milligan) 13.98

A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey, and Bennett Scott 13.99

Irving Mills 13.100

A. A. Milne 13.101

Lord Milner (Alfred, Viscount Milner) 13.102

Adrian Mitchell 13.103

Joni Mitchell 13.104

Margaret Mitchell 13.105

Jessica Mitford 13.106

Nancy Mitford 13.107

Addison Mizner 13.108

Wilson Mizner 13.109

Walter Mondale 13.110

William Cosmo Monkhouse 13.111

Harold Monro 13.112

Marilyn Monroe 13.113

C. E. Montague 13.114

Field-Marshal Montgomery (Viscount Montgomery of Alamein) 13.115

George Moore 13.116

Marianne Moore 13.117

Larry Morey 13.118

Robin Morgan 13.119

Christian Morgenstern 13.120

Christopher Morley 13.121

Lord Morley (John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn) 13.122

Desmond Morris 13.123

Herbert Morrison (Baron Morrison of Lambeth) 13.124

Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore 13.125

R. F. Morrison 13.126

Dwight Morrow 13.127

John Mortimer 13.128

J. B. Morton ('Beachcomber') 13.129

Rogers Morton 13.130

Sir Oswald Mosley 13.131

Lord Louis Mountbatten (Viscount Mountbatten of Burma) 13.132

Lord Moynihan (Berkeley Moynihan, Baron Moynihan) 13.133

Robert Mugabe 13.134

Kitty Muggeridge 13.135

Malcolm Muggeridge 13.136

Edwin Muir 13.137

Herbert J. Muller 13.138

Ethel Watts Mumford, Oliver Herford, and Addison Mizner 13.139

Lewis Mumford 13.140

Sir Alfred Munnings 13.141

Richard Murdoch, and Kenneth Horne 13.142

C. W. Murphy and Will Letters 13.143

Ed Murphy 13.144

Fred Murray 13.145

Edward R. Murrow 13.146

Benito Mussolini 13.147

A. J. Muste 13.148

N 14.0

Vladimir Nabokov 14.1

Ralph Nader 14.2

Sarojini Naidu 14.3

Fridtjof Nansen 14.4

Ogden Nash 14.5

George Jean Nathan 14.6

Terry Nation 14.7

James Ball Naylor 14.8

Jawaharlal Nehru 14.9

Allan Nevins 14.10

Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse 14.11

Huey Newton 14.12

Vivian Nicholson 14.13

Sir Harold Nicolson 14.14

Reinhold Niebuhr 14.15

Carl Nielsen 14.16

Martin Niem�ller 14.17

Florence Nightingale 14.18

Richard Milhous Nixon 14.19

David Nobbs 14.20

Milton Nobles 14.21

Albert J. Nock 14.22

Frank Norman and Lionel Bart 14.23

Lord Northcliffe (Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe) 14.24

Jack Norworth 14.25

Alfred Noyes 14.26

Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) 14.27

O 15.0

Captain Lawrence Oates 15.1

Edna O'Brien 15.2

Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan or O Nuallain) 15.3

Sean O'Casey 15.4

Edwin O'Connor 15.5

Se�n O'Faol�in 15.6

David Ogilvy 15.7

Geoffrey O'Hara 15.8

John O'Hara 15.9

Patrick O'Keefe 15.10

Chauncey Olcott and George Graff Jr. 15.11

Frederick Scott Oliver 15.12

Laurence Olivier (Baron Olivier of Brighton) 15.13

Frank Ward O'Malley 15.14

Mary O'Malley 15.15

Eugene O'Neill 15.16

Brian O'Nolan 15.17

J. Robert Oppenheimer 15.18

Susie Orbach 15.19

Baroness Orczy 15.20

David Ormsby Gore 15.21

Jos� Ortega y Gasset 15.22

Joe Orton 15.23

George Orwell (Eric Blair) 15.24

John Osborne 15.25

Sir William Osler 15.26

Peter Demianovich Ouspensky 15.27

David Owen 15.28

Wilfred Owen 15.29

Oxford and Asquith, Countess of 15.30

Oxford and Asquith, Earl of 15.31

P 16.0

Vance Packard 16.1

William Tyler Page 16.2

Reginald Paget 16.3

Gerald Page-Wood 16.4

Revd Ian Paisley 16.5

Michael Palin 16.6

Norman Panama and Melvin Frank 16.7

Dame Christabel Pankhurst 16.8

Emmeline Pankhurst 16.9

Emmeline Pankhurst, Dame Christabel Pankhurst, and Annie Kenney 16.10

Charlie Parker 16.11

Dorothy Parker 16.12

Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and Robert Carson 16.13

Ross Parker and Hugh Charles 16.14

C. Northcote Parkinson 16.15

'Banjo' Paterson (Andrew Barton Paterson) 16.16

Alan Paton 16.17

Norman Vincent Peale 16.18

Charles S. Pearce 16.19

Hesketh Pearson 16.20

Lester Pearson 16.21

Charles P�guy 16.22

Vladimir Peniakoff 16.23

William H. Penn 16.24

S. J. Perelman 16.25

S. J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, and Arthur Sheekman 16.26

Carl Perkins 16.27

Frances Perkins 16.28

Juan Per�n 16.29

Ted Persons 16.30

Henri Philippe P�tain 16.31

Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull 16.32

Kim Philby (Harold Adrian Russell Philby) 16.33

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 16.34

Morgan Phillips 16.35

Stephen Phillips 16.36

Eden Phillpotts 16.37

Pablo Picasso 16.38

Wilfred Pickles 16.39

Harold Pinter 16.40

Luigi Pirandello 16.41

Armand J. Piron 16.42

Robert Pirosh, George Seaton, and George Oppenheimer 16.43

Robert M. Pirsig 16.44

Walter B. Pitkin 16.45

Ruth Pitter 16.46

Sylvia Plath 16.47

William Plomer 16.48

Henri Poincar� 16.49

Georges Pompidou 16.50

Arthur Ponsonby (first Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede) 16.51

Sir Karl Popper 16.52

Cole Porter 16.53

Beatrix Potter 16.54

Gillie Potter (Hugh William Peel) 16.55

Stephen Potter 16.56

Ezra Pound 16.57

Anthony Powell 16.58

Enoch Powell 16.59

Sandy Powell 16.60

Vince Powell and Harry Driver 16.61

Jacques Pr�vert 16.62

J. B. Priestley 16.63

V. S. Pritchett 16.64

Marcel Proust 16.65

Olive Higgins Prouty 16.66

John Pudney 16.67

Mario Puzo 16.68

Q 17.0

Q 17.1

Salvatore Quasimodo 17.2

Peter Quennell 17.3

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (often used the pseudonym 'Q') 17.4

R 18.0

James Rado and Gerome Ragni 18.1

John Rae 18.2

Milton Rakove 18.3

Sir Walter Raleigh 18.4

Srinivasa Ramanujan 18.5

John Crowe Ransom 18.6

Arthur Ransome 18.7

Frederic Raphael 18.8

Terence Rattigan 18.9

Gwen Raverat 18.10

Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank 18.11

Ted Ray (Charles Olden) 18.12

Sam Rayburn 18.13

Sir Herbert Read 18.14

Nancy Reagan 18.15

Ronald Reagan 18.16

Erell Reaves 18.17

Henry Reed 18.18

John Reed 18.19

Max Reger 18.20

Charles A. Reich 18.21

Keith Reid and Gary Brooker 18.22

Erich Maria Remarque 18.23

Dr Montague John Rendall 18.24

James Reston 18.25

David Reuben 18.26

Charles Revson 18.27

Malvina Reynolds 18.28

Quentin Reynolds 18.29

Cecil Rhodes 18.30

Jean Rhys (Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams) 18.31

Grantland Rice 18.32

Tim Rice 18.33

Mandy Rice-Davies 18.34

Dicky Richards 18.35

Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton) 18.36

I. A. Richards 18.37

Sir Ralph Richardson 18.38

Hans Richter 18.39

Rainer Maria Rilke 18.40

Hal Riney 18.41

Robert L. Ripley 18.42

C�sar Ritz 18.43

Joan Riviere 18.44

Lord Robbins (Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins) 18.45

Leo Robin 18.46

Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger 18.47

Edwin Arlington Robinson 18.48

Rt. Rev John Robinson (Bishop of Woolwich) 18.49

John D. Rockefeller 18.50

Knute Rockne 18.51

Cecil Rodd 18.52

Gene Roddenberry 18.53

Theodore Roethke 18.54

Will Rogers 18.55

Frederick William Rolfe ('Baron Corvo') 18.56

Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli 18.57

Eleanor Roosevelt 18.58

Franklin D. Roosevelt 18.59

Theodore Roosevelt 18.60

Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber 18.61

Billy Rose 18.62

Billy Rose and Marty Bloom 18.63

Billy Rose and Willie Raskin 18.64

William Rose 18.65

Lord Rosebery (Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery) 18.66

Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg 18.67

Alan S. C. Ross 18.68

Harold Ross 18.69

Sir Ronald Ross 18.70

Jean Rostand 18.71

Leo Rosten 18.72

Philip Roth 18.73

Dan Rowan and Dick Martin 18.74

Helen Rowland 18.75

Richard Rowland 18.76

Maude Royden 18.77

Naomi Royde-Smith 18.78

Paul Alfred Rubens 18.79

Damon Runyon 18.80

Dean Rusk 18.81

Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William, third Earl Russell) 18.82

Dora Russell (Countess Russell) 18.83

George William Russell 18.84

John Russell 18.85

Ernest Rutherford (Baron Rutherford of Nelson) 18.86

Gilbert Ryle 18.87

S 19.0

Rafael Sabatini 19.1

Oliver Sacks 19.2

Victoria ('Vita') Sackville-West 19.3

Fran�oise Sagan 19.4

Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry 19.5

George Saintsbury 19.6

Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) 19.7

J. D. Salinger 19.8

Lord Salisbury (Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, fifth Marquess of Salisbury) 19.9

Anthony Sampson 19.10

Lord Samuel (Herbert Louis, first Viscount Samuel) 19.11

Carl Sandburg 19.12

Henry 'Red' Sanders 19.13

William Sansom 19.14

George Santayana 19.15

'Sapper' (Herman Cyril MacNeile) 19.16

John Singer Sargent 19.17

Leslie Sarony 19.18

Nathalie Sarraute 19.19

Jean-Paul Sartre 19.20

Siegfried Sassoon 19.21

Erik Satie 19.22

Telly Savalas 19.23

Dorothy L. Sayers 19.24

Al Scalpone 19.25

Hugh Scanlon (Baron Scanlon) 19.26

Arthur Scargill 19.27

Age Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Sergio Leone 19.28

Moritz Schlick 19.29

Artur Schnabel 19.30

Arnold Schoenberg 19.31

Budd Schulberg 19.32

Diane B. Schulder 19.33

E. F. Schumacher 19.34

Albert Schweitzer 19.35

Kurt Schwitters 19.36

Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin 19.37

C. P. Scott 19.38

Paul Scott 19.39

Robert Falcon Scott 19.40

Florida Scott-Maxwell 19.41

Alan Seeger 19.42

Pete Seeger 19.43

Erich Segal 19.44

W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman 19.45

Robert W. Service 19.46

Anne Sexton 19.47

James Seymour and Rian James 19.48

Peter Shaffer 19.49

Eileen Shanahan 19.50

Bill Shankly 19.51

Tom Sharpe 19.52

George Bernard Shaw 19.53

Sir Hartley Shawcross (Baron Shawcross) 19.54

Patrick Shaw-Stewart 19.55

Gloria Shayne 19.56

E. A. Sheppard 19.57

Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart 19.58

Emanuel Shinwell (Baron Shinwell) 19.59

Jean Sibelius 19.60

Walter Sickert 19.61

Maurice Sigler and Al Hoffman 19.62

Alan Sillitoe 19.63

Frank Silver and Irving Cohn 19.64

Georges Simenon 19.65

James Simmons 19.66

Paul Simon 19.67

Harold Simpson 19.68

Kirke Simpson 19.69

N. F. Simpson 19.70

Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake 19.71

C. H. Sisson 19.72

Dame Edith Sitwell 19.73

Sir Osbert Sitwell 19.74

'Red Skelton' (Richard Skelton) 19.75

B. F. Skinner 19.76

Elizabeth Smart 19.77

Alfred Emanuel Smith 19.78

Sir Cyril Smith 19.79

Dodie Smith 19.80

Edgar Smith 19.81

F. E. Smith (Earl of Birkenhead) 19.82

Ian Smith 19.83

Logan Pearsall Smith 19.84

Stevie Smith (Florence Margaret Smith) 19.85

John Snagge 19.86

C. P. Snow (Baron Snow of Leicester) 19.87

Philip Snowden (Viscount Snowden) 19.88

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 19.89

Anastasio Somoza 19.90