The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (385 page)

Segal, Erich
1937–

1
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Love Story
(1970)

 
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Sei
Sh
nagon
c.
966–1013

1
If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from.

The Pillow Book

 
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Selden, John
1584–1654

1
Scrutamini scripturas
[Let us look at the scriptures]. These two words have undone the world.

Table Talk
(1689) "Bible Scripture"

2
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.

Table Talk
(1689) "Law"

3
There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring.

Table Talk
(1689) "Parson"

4
Syllables govern the world.

Table Talk
(1689) "Power: State"

 
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Seldon, Arthur
1916–

1
Government of the busy by the bossy for the bully.
on over-government

Capitalism
(1990)

 
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Sellar, W. C.
1898–1951 and
Yeatman, R. J.
1898–1968

1
1066 and all That

title of book (1930)

2
History is not what you thought.
It is what you can remember.

1066 and All That
(1930) "Compulsory Preface"

3
"Honi soie qui mal y pense" ("Honey, your silk stocking's hanging down").

1066 and All That
(1930) ch. 24.

4
The Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive).

1066 and All That
(1930) ch. 35

5
The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off, for fear of Political Economy.

1066 and All That
(1930) ch. 38

6
Gladstone…spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.

1066 and All That
(1930) ch. 57

7
america
was thus clearly top nation, and History came to a .

1066 and All That
(1930) ch. 62

 
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Seneca
("the Younger")
c.
4–65

1
Homines dum docent discunt.Even while they teach, men learn.

Epistulae Morales
no. 7, sect. 8

2
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Phoenissae
l. 152

 
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