The Oxford dictionary of modern quotations (57 page)

Lobachevski (1953 song)

And we will all go together when we go--

Every Hottentot and every Eskimo.

We Will All Go Together When We Go (1953 song)

12.32 Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Jerry Leiber 1933-

Mike Stoller 1933-

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog,

Cryin' all the time.

Hound Dog (1956 song)

12.33 Fred W. Leigh =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

d. 1924

There was I, waiting at the church,

Waiting at the church, waiting at the church,

When I found he'd left me in the lurch,

Lor, how it did upset me!

All at once he sent me round a note,

Here's the very note,

This is what he wrote--

"Can't get away to marry you today,

My wife won't let me!"

Waiting at the Church (My Wife Won't Let Me) (1906 song; music by Henry

E. Pether)

12.34 Fred W. Leigh, Charles Collins, and Lily Morris =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Fred W. Leigh d. 1924

Why am I always the bridesmaid,

Never the blushing bride?

Why Am I Always the Bridesmaid? (1917 song)

12.35 Fred W. Leigh and George Arthurs =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Fred W. Leigh d. 1924

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Title of song (1915)

12.36 Curtis E. LeMay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1906-1990

My solution to the problem would be to tell them [the North Vietnamese]

frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression,

or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.

Mission with LeMay (1965) p. 565

12.37 Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1870-1924

We must now set about building a proletarian socialist state in Russia.

Speech in Petrograd, 7 Nov. 1917, in Collected Works (1964) vol. 26, p.

240

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Report to 8th Congress, 1920, in Collected Works (ed. 5) vol. 42, p. 30

He [George Bernard Shaw] is a good man fallen among Fabians.

In Arthur Ransome Six Weeks in Russia in 1919 (1919) "Notes of

Conversations with Lenin"

It is true that liberty is precious--so precious that it must be rationed.

In Sidney and Beatrice Webb Soviet Communism (1936) p. 1036

No, Democracy is not identical with majority rule. No, Democracy is a

State which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority,

that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class

against the other, by one part of the population against another.

State and Revolution (1919) ch. 4

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom

there will be no State.

State and Revolution (1919) ch. 5

12.38 John Lennon =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1940-1980

Imagine there's no heaven,

It's easy if you try,

No hell below us,

Above us only sky,

Imagine all the people

Living for today.

Imagine (1971 song)

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you,

if you'll just rattle your jewellery.

At Royal Variety Performance, 4 Nov. 1963, in R. Colman John Winston

Lennon (1984) pt. 1, ch. 11

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about

that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're [the Beatles are] more

popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first--rock 'n' roll or

Christianity.

Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda

Fitzgerald

12.39 John Lennon and Paul McCartney =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

John Lennon 1940-1980

Paul McCartney 1942-

All you need is love.

Title of song (1967)

Back in the USSR.

Title of song (1968)

For I don't care too much for money,

For money can't buy me love.

Can't Buy Me Love (1964 song)

I heard the news today, oh boy.

Four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire.

And though the holes were rather small,

They had to count them all.

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

I'd love to turn you on.

A Day in the Life (1967 song)

Give peace a chance.

Title of song (1969)

It's been a hard day's night,

And I've been working like a dog.

A Hard Day's Night (1964 song)

Magical mystery tour.

Title of song and TV film (1967)

She loves you, yeh, yeh, yeh,

And with a love like that, you know you should be glad.

She Loves You (1963 song)

Strawberry fields forever.

Title of song (1967)

She's got a ticket to ride, but she don't care.

Ticket to Ride (1965 song)

Will you still need me, will you still feed me,

When I'm sixty four?

When I'm Sixty Four (1967 song)

Oh I get by with a little help from my friends.

With a Little Help From My Friends (1967 song)

We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine.

Yellow Submarine (1966 song)

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away,

Now it looks as though they're here to stay.

Oh I believe in yesterday.

Yesterday (1965 song)

12.40 Dan Leno (George Galvin) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1860-1904

Ah! what is man? Wherefore does he why? Whence did he whence? Whither is

he withering?

Dan Leno Hys Booke (1901) ch. 1

12.41 Alan Jay Lerner =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1918-1986

I'm getting married in the morning,

Ding! dong! the bells are gonna chime.

Pull out the stopper;

Let's have a whopper;

But get me to the church on time!

Get Me to the Church on Time (1956 song; music by Frederick Loewe)

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;

Eternally noble, historically fair;

Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.

Why can't a woman be like that?

A Hymn to Him (1956 song; music by Frederick Loewe)

Ah yes! I remember it well.

I Remember it Well (1958 song; music by Frederick Loewe)

I've grown accustomed to the trace

Of something in the air;

Accustomed to her face.

I've Grown Accustomed to her Face (1956 song; music by Frederick Loewe)

On a clear day (you can see forever).

Title of song from musical On a Clear Day (1965; music by Burton Lane)

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

The Rain in Spain (1956 song; music by Frederick Loewe)

Thank heaven for little girls!

For little girls get bigger every day.

Thank Heaven for Little Girls (1958 song; music by Frederick Loewe)

All I want is a room somewhere,

Far away from the cold night air,

With one enormous chair;

Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?

Wouldn't it be Loverly (1956 song; music by Frederick Loewe)

12.42 Doris Lessing =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1919-

There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the

second-best is anything but the second-best.

Golden Notebook (1962) p. 554

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and

sees the human being (which it is his chief preoccupation to avoid), his

sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down

the whip.

The Grass is Singing (1950) ch. 8

12.43 Winifred Mary Letts =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1882-1972

I saw the spires of Oxford

As I was passing by,

The grey spires of Oxford

Against a pearl-grey sky;

My heart was with the Oxford men

Who went abroad to die.

Hallow-e'en (1916) "The Spires of Oxford"

12.44 Oscar Levant =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1906-1972

Epigram: a wisecrack that played Carnegie Hall.

Coronet Sept. 1958

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965) ch. 11

I don't drink liquor. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

Time 5 May 1958

12.45 Ros Levenstein =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

I'm only here for the beer.

Slogan for Double Diamond beer, 1971 onwards, in Nigel Rees Slogans (1982)

p. 11

12.46 Viscount Leverhulme (William Hesketh Lever) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1851-1925

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I

don't know which half.

In David Ogilvy Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963) ch. 3

12.47 Ada Leverson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1865-1936

He [Oscar Wilde] seemed at ease and to have the look of the last gentleman

in Europe.

Letters to the Sphinx (1930) p. 34

You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Tenterhooks (1912) ch. 7

12.48 Bernard Levin =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1928-

[Tony] Benn flung himself into the Sixties technology with the enthusiasm

(not to say language) of a newly enrolled Boy Scout demonstrating

knot-tying to his indulgent parents.

The Pendulum Years (1970) ch. 11

I have heard tell of a Professor of Economics who has a sign on the wall

of his study, reading "the future is not what it was." The sentiment was

admirable

unfortunately, the past is not getting any better either.

Sunday Times 22 May 1977

12.49 Claude L�vi-Strauss =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1908-

La langue est une raison humaine qui a ses raisons, et que l'homme ne

conna�t pas.

Language is a form of human reason and has its reasons which are unknown

to man.

La Pens�e sauvage (The Savage Mind, 1962) ch. 9. Cf. Pascal in Oxford

Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 369:10

12.50 Cecil Day Lewis =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

See C. Day-Lewis (4.11)

12.51 C. S. Lewis =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1898-1963

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

Screwtape Letters (1942) preface

We have trained them [men] to think of the Future as a promised land which

favoured heroes attain--not as something which everyone reaches at the

rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Screwtape Letters (1942) no. 25

She's the sort of woman who lives for others--you can always tell the

others by their hunted expression.

Screwtape Letters (1942) no. 26

I remember summing up what I took to be our destiny, in conversation with

my best friend at Chartres, by the formula, "Term, holidays, term,

holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die."

Suprised by Joy (1955) ch. 4

12.52 John Spedan Lewis =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1885-1963

Service to customers: never knowingly undersold.

Slogan (circa 1920) in Partnership for All (1948) ch. 29

12.53 Percy Wyndham Lewis =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1882-1957

"The Art of Being Ruled" might be described from some points of view as an

infernal Utopia....An account, comprising many chapters, of the decadence

occupying the trough between the two world wars introduces us to a moronic

inferno of insipidity and decay (which is likewise the inferno of "The

Apes of God").

Rude Assignment (1950) ch. 31

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding. We can

represent it as a cold suet-roll of fabulously-reptilian length. Cut it at

any point, it is the same thing; the same heavy, sticky, opaque mass all

through, and all along. It is weighted, projected, with a sibylline urge.

It is mournful and monstrous, composed of dead and inanimate material. It

is all fat, without nerve. Or the evident vitality that informs it is

vegetable rather than animal. Its life is a low-grade, if tenacious one;

of the sausage, by-the-yard, variety.

Time and Western Man (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13

12.54 Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Sam M. Lewis 1885-1959

Joe Young 1889-1939

How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm (after they've seen Paree)?

Title of song (1919; music by Walter Donaldson)

12.55 Sinclair Lewis =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-