The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (256 page)

Knights, L. C.
1906–97

1
How many children had Lady Macbeth?
satirizing an over-realistic approach to criticism

title of essay (1933)

 
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Knowles, Mary
1733–1807

1
He gets at the substance of a book directly; he tears out the heart of it.
on Samuel Johnson

James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson
(1791) 15 April 1778

 
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Knox, John
c.
1505–72

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The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women.
"regiment" = rule

title of pamphlet (1558)

 
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Knox, Ronald
1888–1957

1
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal,
Corrected
I believe
to
One does feel
.

"Absolute and Abitofhell" (1913)

2
There once was a man who said, "God
Must think it exceedingly odd
If he finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there's no one about in the Quad."

Langford Reed
Complete Limerick Book
(1924), to which came the anonymous reply:

Dear Sir,
Your astonishment's odd:
I
am always about in the Quad.
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be,
Since observed by
Yours faithfully,
God.
3
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
definition of a baby

attributed

 
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Knox, Vicesimus
1752–1821

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Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(1792) ch. 7

 
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1
Stormy weather,
Since my man and I ain't together.

"Stormy Weather" (1933 song)

 
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