The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (418 page)

Stone, Samuel John
1839–1900

1
The Church's one foundation
Is Jesus Christ, her Lord;
She is his new creation
By water and the word.

Lyra Fidelium
(1866) "The Church's one foundation"

 
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Stopes, Marie
1880–1958

1
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Married Love
(1918) ch. 5

 
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Stoppard, Tom
1937–

1
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Jumpers
(1972) act 1.

2
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe—responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon
(1966) pt. 6.

3
I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand.

Night and Day
(1978) act 1

4
Comment is free but facts are on expenses.

Night and Day
(1978) act 2.

5
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
(1967) act 2.

 
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Stoughton, William
1631–1701

1
God hath sifted a nation that he might send choice grain into this wilderness.

sermon in Boston, 29 April 1669

 
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher
1811–96

1
I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
Topsy

Uncle Tom's Cabin
(1852) ch. 20

 
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Stowell, William Scott, Lord
1745–1836

1
The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.

Lord Campbell
Lives of the Lord Chancellors
(1857).

2
A precedent embalms a principle.

an opinion, while Advocate-General, 1788

 
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