The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (234 page)

Jago, Richard
1715–81

1
With leaden foot time creeps along
While Delia is away.

"Absence"

 
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textual translations are those of H. Jacobi, 1884
1
This is the quintessence of wisdom: not to kill anything. Know this to be the legitimate conclusion from the principle of the reciprocity with regard to non-killing.

S
trakrit
nga
bk. 1, lecture 1, ch. 4, v. 10

2
Exert and control yourself! For it is not easy to walk on ways where there are minutely small animals.

S
trakrit
nga
bk. 1, lecture 2, ch. 1, v. 11

 
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James I
(
James VI of Scotland
) 1566–1625

1
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

A Counterblast to Tobacco
(1604)

2
No bishop, no King.
to a deputation of Presbyterians from the Church of Scotland, seeking religious tolerance in England

W. Barlow
Sum and Substance of the Conference
(1604)

3
The king is truly
parens patriae
, the politique father of his people.

speech to Parliament, 21 March 1610

4
Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

remark recorded by Archdeacon Plume (1630–1704).

5
I made the carles lords, but who made the carlines ladies?

E. Grenville Murray
Embassies and Foreign Courts
(1855) ch. 14

 
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James V
1512–42

1
It came with a lass, and it will pass with a lass.
of the crown of Scotland, on learning of the birth of Mary Queen of Scots, December 1542

Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie (
c.
1500–65)
History of Scotland
(1728)

 
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