The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (355 page)

Preston, Keith
1884–1927

1
Of all the literary scenes
Saddest this sight to me:
The graves of little magazines
Who died to make verse free.

"The Liberators"

 
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Prévert, Jacques
1900–77

1
C'est tellement simple, l'amour.Love is so simple.

Les Enfants du Paradis
(1945 film)

 
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Price, Richard
1723–91

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Now, methinks, I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading; a general amendment beginning in human affairs; the dominion of kings changed for the dominion of laws, and the dominion of priests giving way to the dominion of reason and conscience.

A Discourse on the Love of our Country
(1790)

 
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Priestley, J. B.
1894–1984

1
First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

Saturn Over the Water
(1961) ch. 2

2
Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

radio broadcast, 5 June 1940

 
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Prior, Matthew
1664–1721

1
Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind;
Let all her ways be unconfined;
And clap your padlock—on her mind.

"An English Padlock" (1705) l. 79

2
Euphelia serves to grace my measure;
But Chloe is my real flame.

"An Ode" (1709)

3
Cured yesterday of my disease,
I died last night of my physician.

"The Remedy Worse than the Disease" (1727)

4
No, no; for my virginity,
When I lose that, says Rose, I'll die:
Behind the elms last night, cried Dick,
Rose, were you not extremely sick?

"A True Maid" (1718)

 
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Pritchett, V. S.
1900–97

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The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers.

The Living Novel
(1946) "Clarissa"

 
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