left quotes

Harold Macmillan held his party together by not allowing his left wing to see what his right wing was doing.

-Baroness
Attributed.

Say what you will,'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

-William Congreve
  Mrs Warwood to Mrs Fainall. The Way of the World, act 2, sc.1.

If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.

-Terry Eagleton
  In the London Review of Books, 2 Dec.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

- Northrop Frye
Quoted by Paul Wilson in'Growing Up with Orwell', in The Idler, Jul^ Aug1989.

I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.

- George Grossmith
  The Diary of a Nobody (with Weedon Grossmith), ch.7.

My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is onlya motor hand.

- Dame Barbara Hepworth
  A Pictorial  Autobiography.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Inversnaid'.

Keep your left hand high.

-Thomas P known as  'Tip' O'Neill
Recommending the boxer's defensive posture to President Carter. Recalled on O'Neill's death in the NewYork Times,7  Jan 1994.