The Oxford dictionary of modern quotations (45 page)

Reden und Proklamationen 1932-1945 (1962) p. 927

In bezug auf das sudetendeutsche Problem meine Geduld jetzt zu Ende ist!

With regard to the problem of the Sudeten Germans, my patience is now at

an end!

Speech at Berlin Sportpalast, 26 Sept. 1938, in Max Domarus (ed.) Hitler:

Reden und Proklamationen 1932-1945 (1962) p. 932

Brennt Paris?

Is Paris burning?

Question, 25 Aug. 1944, in Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre Is Paris

Burning? (1965) ch. 5

Die breite Masse eines Volkes...einer grossen L�geleichter zum Opfer f�llt

als einer kleinen.

The broad mass of a nation...will more easily fall victim to a big lie

than to a small one.

Mein Kampf (My Struggle, 1925) vol. 1, ch. 10

8.66 Ralph Hodgson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1871-1962

Time, you old gipsy man,

Will you not stay,

Put up your caravan

Just for one day?

Poems (1917) "Time, You Old Gipsy Man"

I climbed a hill as light fell short,

And rooks came home in scramble sort,

And filled the trees and flapped and fought

And sang themselves to sleep.

Poems (1917) "Song of Honour"

I stood and stared; the sky was lit,

The sky was stars all over it,

I stood, I knew not why,

Without a wish, without a will,

I stood upon that silent hill

And stared into the sky until

My eyes were blind with stars and still

I stared into the sky.

Poems (1917) "Song of Honour"

When stately ships are twirled and spun

Like whipping tops and help there's none

And mighty ships ten thousand ton

Go down like lumps of lead.

Poems (1917) "Song of Honour"

'Twould ring the bells of Heaven

The wildest peal for years,

If Parson lost his senses

And people came to theirs,

And he and they together

Knelt down with angry prayers

For tamed and shabby tigers

And dancing dogs and bears,

And wretched, blind, pit ponies,

And little hunted hares.

Poems (1917) "Bells of Heaven"

See an old unhappy bull,

Sick in soul and body both,

Slouching in the undergrowth

Of the forest beautiful,

Banished from the herd he led,

Bulls and cows a thousand head.

Poems (1917) "The Bull"

Reason has moons, but moons not hers,

Lie mirror'd on her sea,

Confounding her astronomers,

But, O! delighting me.

Poems (1917) "Reason Has Moons"

8.67 'Red' Hodgson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

I blow through here;

the music goes 'round and around.

Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, and it comes up here.

Music Goes 'round and Around (1935 song; music by Edward Farley and

Michael Riley)

8.68 Eric Hoffer =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1902-1983

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour.

New York Times Magazine 15 Feb. 1959, p. 12

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each

other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of

a protest.

Passionate State of Mind (1955) p. 21

8.69 Al Hoffman and Dick Manning =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Al Hoffman 1902-1960

Dick Manning 1912-

Takes two to tango.

Title of song (1952)

8.70 Gerard Hoffnung =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1925-1959

Standing among savage scenery, the hotel offers stupendous revelations.

There is a French widow in every bedroom, affording delightful prospects.

Speech at Oxford Union, 4 Dec. 1958 (supposedly quoting a letter from

a Tyrolean landlord)

8.71 Lancelot Hogben =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1895-1975

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The

spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men

who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

Science for the Citizen (1938) epilogue

8.72 Billie Holiday (Eleanor Fagan) and Arthur Herzog Jr. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Billie Holiday 1915-1959

Arthur Herzog Jr. 1901-1983

Them that's got shall get,

Them that's not shall lose,

So the Bible said,

And it still is news;

Mama may have, papa may have,

But God bless the child that's got his own!

That's got his own.

God Bless the Child (1941 song)

8.73 Stanley Holloway =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1890-1982

Sam, Sam, pick up tha' musket.

Pick Up Tha' Musket (1930 recorded monologue)

8.74 John H. Holmes =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1879-1964

This, now, is the judgement of our scientific age--the third reaction of

man upon the universe! This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it

friendly. It is simply indifferent.

The Sensible Man's View of Religion (1932) ch. 4

8.75 Lord Home (Baron Home of the Hirsel, formerly Sir Alec Douglas-Home) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1903-

As far as the fourteenth earl is concerned, I suppose Mr [Harold] Wilson,

when you come to think of it, is the fourteenth Mr Wilson.

Television interview, 21 Oct. 1963, in Daily Telegraph 22 Oct. 1963

(replying to question on how he was going to meet attacks by the Labour

Party on his then position as a "fourteenth Earl, a reactionary, and an

out-of-date figure")

When I have to read economic documents I have to have a box of matches and

start moving them into position to simplify and illustrate the points to

myself.

In Observer 16 Sept. 1962

8.76 Arthur Honegger =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1892-1955

Il est certain que la premi�re qualit� d'un compositeur, c'est d'�tre

mort.

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Je suis compositeur (I am a Composer, 1951) p. 16

8.77 Herbert Hoover =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1874-1964

Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die. And it is

youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that

are the aftermath of war.

Speech at the Republican National Convention, Chicago, 27 June 1944, in

Addresses upon the American Road (1946) p. 254.

Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic

experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose (i.e. 18th

Amendment on Prohibition).

Letter to Senator W. H. Borah, 23 Feb. 1928, in Claudius O. Johnson Borah

of Idaho (1936) ch. 21

When the war closed...we were challenged with a peace-time choice between

the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of

diametrically opposed doctrines--doctrines of paternalism and state

socialism.

Speech in New York City, 22 Oct. 1928, in New Day (1928) p. 154

Another proposal of our opponents which would wholly alter our American

system of life is to reduce the protective tariff to a competitive tariff

for revenue....The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities,

a thousand towns; the weeds will overrun the fields of millions of farms

if that protection be taken away.

Speech, 31 Oct. 1932, in State Papers of Herbert Hoover (1934) vol. 2,

p. 418

8.78 Anthony Hope (Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1863-1933

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some

day, want something you probably won't want.

Dolly Dialogues (1894) no. 12

"You oughtn't to yield to temptation." "Well, somebody must, or the thing

becomes absurd," said I.

Dolly Dialogues (1894) no. 14

"Bourgeois," I observed, "is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what

is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent." "But it's not

a nice thing to be, all the same," said Dolly, who is impervious to the

most penetrating remark.

Dolly Dialogues (1894) no. 17

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my

conversation.

Dolly Dialogues (1894) no. 22

Anthony Hope--a friend, a true friend, yet pledged always to his own and

far more Attic interpretation of life--sat there [at the first night of J.

M. Barrie's Peter Pan in 1904] looking primmer and drier at every

extravagance, and more and more as if, in his opinion, children should be

kept in their right place. When he spoke, his comment was also far more

succinct. "Oh, for an hour of Herod!" he said.

Denis Mackail Story of JMB (1941) ch. 17

8.79 Bob Hope =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1903-

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't

need it.

In Alan Harrington Life in the Crystal Palace (1959) "The Tyranny of

Farms"

8.80 Francis Hope =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1938-1974

And scribbled lines like fallen hopes

On backs of tattered envelopes.

Instead of a Poet and Other Poems (1965) "Instead of a Poet"

8.81 Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1865-1904

Less than the dust, beneath thy Chariot wheel,

Less than the rust, that never stained thy Sword,

Less than the trust thou hast in me, Oh, Lord,

Even less than these!

Less than the weed, that grows beside thy door,

Less than the speed, of hours, spent far from thee,

Less than the need thou hast in life of me.

Even less am I.

Garden of Kama (1901) "Less than the Dust"

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar,

Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?

...Pale hands, pink tipped, like lotus buds that float

On those cool waters where we used to dwell,

I would have rather felt you round my throat

Crushing out life; than waving me farewell!

Garden of Kama (1901) "Kashmiri Song"

8.82 Zilphia Horton =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1907-1957

See "Anonymous" in topic 1.43

8.83 A. E. Housman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

1859-1936

Mud's sister, not himself, adorns my legs.

Fragment of a Greek Tragedy (Bromsgrovian vol. 2, no. 5, 1883) in Alfred

Edward Housman, the Housman Memorial Supplement of the Bromsgrovian (1936

)

This great College, of this ancient University, has seen some strange

sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson sober. And here am I,

a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar than Wordsworth, betwixt

and between.

Speech at Trinity College, Cambridge, in G. K. Chesterton Autobiography

(1936) ch. 12

If I were the Prince of Peace, I would choose a less provocative

Ambassador.

In Alan Wood Bertrand Russell: Passionate Sceptic (1957) p. 103

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?

And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?

And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?

Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

'Tis a shame to human nature, such a head of hair as his;

In the good old time 'twas hanging for the colour that it is;

Though hanging isn't bad enough and flaying would be fair

For the nameless and abominable colour of his hair.

Collected Poems (1939) "Additional Poems" no. 18

That is indeed very good. I shall have to repeat that on the Golden Floor!

In Daily Telegraph 21 Feb. 1984 (said to his physician who told him

a risqu� story to cheer him up just before he died)

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild;

He has devoured the infant child.

The infant child is not aware

He has been eaten by the bear.

Infant Innocence in Oxford Book of Light Verse (1938) p. 489

Nous n'irons plus aux bois,

Les lauriers sont coup�s.

We'll go to the woods no more,

The laurels all are cut.

Translation of nursery rhyme in Last Poems (1922) introductory

Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May.

Last Poems (1922) no. 9

May will be fine next year as like as not:

Oh, ay, but then we shall be twenty-four.

Last Poems (1922) no. 9

We for a certainty are not the first

Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled

Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed

Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

Last Poems (1922) no. 9

The troubles of our proud and angry dust

Are from eternity, and shall not fail.

Bear them we can, and if we can we must.