The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (342 page)

Paxman, Jeremy
1950–

1
No government in history has been as obsessed with public relations as this one…Speaking for myself, if there is a message I want to be off it.
after criticism from Alastair Campbell of interviewing tactics in The World at One and Newsnight

in
Daily Telegraph
3 July 1998

 
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Payn, James
1830–98

1
I had never had a piece of toast
Particularly long and wide,
But fell upon the sanded floor,
And always on the buttered side.

in
Chambers's Journal
2 February 1884.

 
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Payne, J. H.
1791–1852

1
Home, sweet home.

title of song, from
Clari, or, The Maid of Milan
(1823 opera)

2
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

Clari, or, The Maid of Milan
(1823 opera) "Home, Sweet Home"

 
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Peacock, Thomas Love
1785–1866

1
My house has been broken open on the most scientific principles.

Crotchet Castle
(1831) ch. 17

2
"I distinguish the picturesque and the beautiful, and I add to them, in the laying out of grounds, a third and distinct character, which I call
unexpectedness
."
"Pray, sir," said Mr Milestone, "by what name do you distinguish this character, when a person walks round the grounds for the second time?"

Headlong Hall
(1816) ch. 4

3
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Melincourt
(1817) ch. 7

4
Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion is too much for me.

Nightmare Abbey
(1818) ch. 5

 
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Peale, Norman Vincent
1898–1993

1
The power of positive thinking.

title of book (1952)

 
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Pearse, Patrick
1879–1916

1
The fools, the fools, the fools, they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.

oration over the grave of the Fenian Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, 1 August 1915

 
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