The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (356 page)

Procter, Adelaide Ann
1825–64

1
A lost chord.

title of poem (1858)

2
It may be that Death's bright Angel
Will speak in that chord again
It may be that only in Heaven
I shall hear that grand Amen.

"A Lost Chord" (1858)

 
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Protagoras
b.
c.
485
bc

1
That man is the measure of all things.

Plato
Theaetetus
160d

 
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Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
1809–65

1
La propriété c'est le vol.Property is theft.

Qu'est-ce que la propriété?
(1840) ch. 1

 
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Proust, Marcel
1871–1922

Textual translations are those of C. K. Scott-Moncrieff and S. Hudson, revised by T. Kilmartin, 1981
1
And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray…my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane.

Du côté de chez Swann
(Swann's Way, 1913) vol. 1

2
I have a horror of sunsets, they're so romantic, so operatic.

Sodome et Gomorrhe
(Cities of the Plain, 1922) vol. 1

3
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Albertine disparue
(The Sweet Cheat Gone, 1925) ch. 1

4
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

Le Temps retrouvé
(Time Regained, 1926) ch. 3

 
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Publilius
Syrus

1
A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.

Sententiae
no. 199, in J. and A. Duff
Minor Latin Poets
(Loeb ed., 1934); translated by Thomas Tenison in
Baconiana
(1679) "Ornamenta Rationalia" no. 12

2
Inopi beneficium bis dat qui dat celeriter.He gives the poor man twice as much good who gives quickly.
proverbially "Bis dat qui cito dat [He gives twice who gives soon]"

Sententiae
no. 274, in J. and A. Duff
Minor Latin Poets

3
Necessitas dat legem non ipsa accipit.Necessity gives the law without itself acknowledging one.
proverbially "Necessitas non habet legem [Necessity has no law]"

Sententiae
no. 444, in J. and A. Duff
Minor Latin Poets

 
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Pudney, John
1909–77

1
Do not despair
For Johnny-head-in-air;
He sleeps as sound
As Johnny underground.

"For Johnny" (1942).

 
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