Quotation Collection (page 2)

Membership certificate, Labour Party 50th Anniversary
Membership certificate, In commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Labour Party (1900-1950), for use during the Jubilee Year, with quotations from Keir Hardie and Clement Attlee. Date: 1950

White flowers on a tambourine-shaped birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, The Mad Dog of Europe, WW1
Cartoon, America should help to catch the mad dog of Europe (a quotation from the New York Press). Showing an allegorical America driving out Kaiser Wilhelm II. Date: 1915

Art Nouveau design, Ex Ungue Leonem
Art Nouveau design with the Latin proverb: Ex Ungue Leonem (We know the lion by his claw). Date: circa 1920s

WW1 Recruitment Poster
Come Now - Your arms, uniform and accoutrements are ready waiting for you (quotation from Lord Kitchener at the Guildhall, July 1915) - Be honest with yourself

Three young women on a yacht at Cowes, Isle of Wight
Three young women standing on the deck of Mr Inglebys yacht Esperance in the Solent during the Cowes Regatta, Isle of Wight, dressed in almost identical outfits

The study of an Old Man in the Vale of Years by Phil May - with associated quotation from Sonnet 73, one of William Shakespeares most famous sonnets, focusing upon the theme of old age. Date: 1898

Poster, More Men and Still More until the Enemy is Crushed -- a quotation from Lord Kitchener. Showing a soldier blowing a bugle. circa 1914-1915

Ulsters Appeal - Unionist postcard
Ulsters Appeal - Intreat me not to leave thee.... (Ruth 1:16) - The personification of Ulster pleads with England not to abandon her, whilst Scotland (holding the Act of Union) stands passively by

Souvenir card from a First Communion - Virgin Mary
Souvenir card from the First Communion of Marguerite Tettart at the Church of St. John the Baptist at Dunkirk, France on 24th April, 1913

WW1 poster, Buy Liberty Bonds
Poster, Buy Liberty Bonds, with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. circa 1917

Hear the Calling of the Moon by Pierrot, with a quotation from a poem by Rupert Brooke. 1925

Religious scene on a devotional Christmas card, showing John the Baptist baptising Jesus. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Religious verse on a devotional Christmas card in gothic style. (1 of 2) circa 1890s

Religious quotation on a frame-shaped greetings card -- Hide me under the shadow of thy wings (Psalm 17). The frame is decorated with blue forgetmenots. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas and New Year Victorian religious scraps. Date: circa 1890s

With the Force - England expects that every man will do duty
With the Force - England expects that every man will do his duty. A policeman is (somewhat reluctantly) pushed through a doorway by a householder to deal with two armed burglars filling up their bags

Religious illustration, Remember thy Creator
Religious illustration with biblical quotation, Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth (Ecclesiastes 12.1). late 19th century

Caricature of the Duke of Connaught in Egypt
Caricature of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), third son of Queen Victoria. Seen here on military service in the British army during the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882

Caricature, Henry Irving as The Lyceum Lion
Caricature, Henry Irving, English actor -- The Lyceum Lion. With a quotation from Tennysons play The Cup, in production at the time

Caricature of G A Sala, English journalist
Caricature of George Augustus Henry Sala (1828-1895), English journalist -- What it may come to. A grocer asks him if he might supply something quotable about his brand of tea

Christmas card with angels and shepherds. Date: circa 1900s

Frontispiece, The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- Feed My Lambs, St John XXI XV (Chapter 21, Verse 15). A young mother reads a book to her two children. Date: circa 1860

Shakespeare quotation on a Christmas card (inside pages) -- I wish you all the joy that you can wish (The Merchant of Venice). With a colourful spray of flowers. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Four bulldogs on a greetings card -- The Philosophers. With quotations (forming a four-line verse) from Lucretius, Hamlet, Kirke White and Democritus. Date: circa 1890s

White flowers and dove on a cross-shaped Easter card
White flowers and a dove on a cross-shaped Easter card, with a Biblical quotation. Date: circa 1890s

White daisies on a cross-shaped Easter card
White daisies and a Biblical quotation on a cross-shaped Easter card. Date: circa 1890s

Religious verse with flowers on a Christmas card
Religious verse with yellow flowers, red berries and two butterflies on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Red flowers on a religious greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Pink rosebuds on a religious greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Children under umbrella on a New Year card
Two children sheltering from the rain under an umbrella on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Plump man and pig on a Christmas and New Year card
A plump man and a pig on a Christmas card, with a quotation from Hamlet: A little more than kin, and less than kind. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, The Reconciliation, by James Gillray, with a quotation from the parable of the Prodigal Son. Showing a reconciliation between King George III and his son, the Prince of Wales

Art Nouveau design, Nemo Ante Mortem Beatus
Art Nouveau design with the Latin saying: Nimitur in Vetitum (Excess is Forbidden, or We Strive for the Forbidden), a quotation from the Roman poet Ovid. Date: circa 1920s

WWI Poster, Why more men are needed
Why more men are needed. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster with a quotation from the Prime Ministers speech at the Guildhall (9 November 1914) saying

WWI Poster, Prime Ministers speech
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, quoting from a speech by the Prime Minister at the Guildhall, London (9 November 1914). It is going to e a long drawn-out struggle... Date: 1915

WWI Poster, No price can be too high
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, quoting a speech by the Prime Minister: No price can be too high when honour and freedom are at stake. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, War Loan
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, War Loan, quoting from a speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Date: circa 1916

Suffragette N. W. S. P. U Christmas Card
Suffragette N.W.S.P.U Christmas Card. Christmas card produced by National W.S.P.U with Best Wishes for Xmas and the New Year 1908-1909 with medallion by Sylvia Pankjurst and the quotation

Drilling recruits in Temple Gardens, London, WW1
Drilling recruits in Temple Gardens, London, at the start of the First World War, while a tennis match goes on in the background

Election propaganda postcard for the Liberal Party, featuring a quote from The Chancellor of the Exchequer (and future Prime Minister) David Lloyd George on 30th July 1909

WW1 - Roll of Honour - space to fill in the blanks
WW1 - Roll of Honour with space to fill in the blanks. " Draw me not without reason. Sheath me not without honour." Date: circa 1916

The Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset having gone bust
The Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset and woeful having gone bust and been abandoned by society Date: 1911

Couple enjoying a romantic picnic under a tree
A Book of Verses undeneah the bough - A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou - Beside me singing in the wilderness - Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow! (Omar Khayyam) Date: 1901

Victory at the End of World War One
Postcard commemorating the Victory at the end of the Great War in 1918, featuring an inset portrait of King George V. " He holds no parley with unmanly fears

Group of Romanian Jews
A group of Romanian Jews, with a quotation from Prime Minister Carp. Below is an historical note about the persecution of the Jews in Romania in 1866

Uprising Poland 1830
Uprising in Warsaw, one of many attempts to free Poland from Russian dominion - vigorously suppressed, leading to the famous quotation: L ordre regne a Warsaw Date: 1830

The Soldiers Toast
A smiling soldier in armour, sitting at a table, entitled The Soldiers Toast, with a quotation from Shakespeares Othello, And let the cannikin clink, clink

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