The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (27 page)

Bailey, Philip James
1816–1902

1
America, thou half-brother of the world;
With something good and bad of every land.

Festus
(1839) sc. 10

 
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Bainbridge, Beryl
1933–

1
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around.

interview in
Daily Telegraph
10 September 1996

 
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Bairnsfather, Bruce
1888–1959

1
Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it.

Fragments from France
(1915)

 
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Baker, Henry Williams
1821–77

1
The King of love my shepherd is,
Whose goodness faileth never;
I nothing lack if I am his
And he is mine for ever…

"The King of love my shepherd is" (1868 hymn)

 
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Bakunin, Michael
1814–76

1
The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Kunst
(1842) "Die Reaktion in Deutschland" (under the pseudonym "Jules Elysard")

 
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Baldwin, James
1924–87

1
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

in
Esquire
May 1961 "Black Boy looks at the White Boy"

2
If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

in
New York Review of Books
7 January 1971 "Open Letter to my Sister, Angela Davis"

 
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Baldwin, Stanley
1867–1947

1
They [parliament] are a lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

J. M. Keynes
Economic Consequences of the Peace
(1919) ch. 5

2
There are three classes which need sanctuary more than others—birds, wild flowers, and Prime Ministers.

in
Observer
24 May 1925

3
The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

speech in the House of Commons, 10 November 1932

4
I shall be but a short time tonight. I have seldom spoken with greater regret, for my lips are not yet unsealed. Were these troubles over I would make a case, and I guarantee that not a man would go into the lobby against us.
on the Abyssinian crisis; popularly quoted as, "My lips are sealed"

speech in the House of Commons, 10 December 1935

5
This House today is a theatre which is being watched by the whole world. Let us conduct ourselves with that dignity which His Majesty is showing in this hour of his trial.

speech, House of Commons, 10 December 1936

6
Do not run up your nose dead against the Pope or the NUM!

R. A. Butler
The Art of Memory
(1982) "Iain Macleod".

 
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