The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (128 page)

Curzon, Lord
1859–1925

1
When a group of Cabinet Ministers begins to meet separately and to discuss independent action, the death-tick is audible in the rafters.
in November 1922, shortly before the fall of Lloyd George's Coalition Government

David Gilmour
Curzon
(1994)

2
Not even a public figure. A man of no experience. And of the utmost insignificance.
of Stanley Baldwin, appointed Prime Minister in 1923 in succession to Bonar Law

Harold Nicolson
Curzon: the Last Phase
(1934)

 
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Cyprian, St
c.
ad
200–258

1
He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.

De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate
sect. 6.

2
Fratres nostros non esse lugendos arcessitione dominica de saeculo liberatos, cum sciamus non amitti sed praemitti.Our brethren who have been freed from the world by the summons of the Lord should not be mourned, since we know that they are not lost but sent before.

De Mortalite
ch. 20 (ed. M. L. Hannam, 1933)

3
There cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church.

Epistle Ad Pomponium, De Virginibus
sect. 4

 
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Dalton, Hugh
1887–1962

1
He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else.
of Richard Crossman

diary, 17 September 1941

 
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Daniel, Samuel
1563–1619

1
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born.

Delia
(1592) Sonnet 54

2
Princes in this case
Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.

The Tragedy of Cleopatra
(1594) act 4, sc. 1.

 
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Dante
Alighieri 1265–1321

1
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita.
Midway along the path of our life.

Divina Commedia
"Inferno" canto 1, l. 1

2
lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate!
Abandon all hope, you who enter!
inscription at the entrance to Hell

Divina Commedia
"Inferno" canto 3, l. 1

3
Non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda, e passa.
Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass on.

Divina Commedia
"Inferno" canto 3, l. 51

4
Il gran rifiuto.
The great refusal.

Divina Commedia
"Inferno" canto 3, l. 60

5
…Nessun maggior dolore,
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.

Divina Commedia
"Inferno" canto 5, l. 121.

6
Tu proverai sì come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com'è duro calle
Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Divina Commedia
"Paradiso" canto 17, l. 58

7
L'amor che muove il sole e l'altre stelle.
The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Divina Commedia
"Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145

 
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