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My ODQ is too ancient for this .
I tried Googling but the only quote I got back was Burlington Bertie. Am I completely on the wrong track?

Right speaker, wring quote. You should be able to google the speaker and some words from the perimeter, I would think. The quote is right below "Bertie" in my ODQ. But as the quote is from 1922, how old must yours be?

"wrong" quote.... (looks for "edit this post" button)

My edition dates from 1981 so perhaps they include a new author in subsequent editions. I don't have any complete perimeter words but I tried Googling his name with what I thought could be words but no joy.

Right author, marjoram. The quote is elusive (best known for the omitted part) but the work was revised by Tom Lehrer, so Googling the two should uncover it

Got it now, thanks.

I have ODQ 7 th edition. I looked in the index for the most obvious word that appears in the perimeter..The quote required does not appear there. So annoying.I have been pulling my hair out for days. So having eventually sorted out the author , the quotations does in fact appear in the book.

I sympathise, I don’t think this endgame can easily be solved without discovering the author from the lost letters. So in that sense it’s a real test.

I’ve always found indices in dictionaries of quotations problematic. Take Jacques’ “All the world’s a stage” monologue in As You Like It. I can think of 30 words which could easily be justified in an index, but it ends up being nearly the same length as the list of quotations, as each has a line to itself.

I got to this very late. It reminded me of many happy hours listening.

There is a searchable version of the ODQ on the internet.
I guessed the last 4 words of the quote and searched this
version of the ODQ and the full quote came up.