The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (408 page)

Snow, C. P.
1905–80

1
The official world, the corridors of power.

Homecomings
(1956) ch. 22

2
The two cultures and the scientific revolution.

title of The Rede Lecture (1959)

 
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Socrates
469
bc

1
How many things I can do without!
on looking at a multitude of goods exposed for sale

Diogenes Laertius
Lives of the Philosophers
bk. 2, ch. 25

2
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Diogenes Laertius
Lives of the Philosophers
bk. 2, sect. 32.

3
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Plato
Crito
49d

4
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

Plato
Symposium
201d

5
Crito, we owe a cock to Aesculapius; please pay it and don't forget it.

last words; Plato
Phaedo
118

 
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Solon
c.
640
bc

1
I grow old ever learning many things.

Theodor Bergk (ed.)
Poetae Lyrici Graeci
(1843) no. 18

2
Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Herodotus
Histories
bk. 1, ch. 32.

 
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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
1918–

1
You only have power over people as long as you don't take
everything
away from them. But when you've robbed a man of
everything
he's no longer in your power — he's free again.

The First Circle
(1968) ch. 17

2
The Gulag archipelago.

title of book (1973–5)

3
The Iron Curtain did not reach the ground and under it flowed liquid manure from the West.

speaking at Far Eastern Technical University, Vladivostok, 30 May 1994.

 
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Somerville, William
1675–1742

1
The chase, the sport of kings;
Image of war, without its guilt.

The Chase
(1735) bk. 1, l. 14.

 
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Somoza, Anastasio
1925–80

1
You won the elections, but I won the count.
replying to an accusation of ballot-rigging

in
Guardian
17 June 1977.

 
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