The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (449 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
, Lord Orford 1676–1745
They now
ring
the bells, but they will soon
wring
their hands.
on the declaration of war with Spain, 1739
W. Coxe
Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole
(1798) vol. 1
All those men have their price.
of fellow parliamentarians
W. Coxe
Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole
(1798) vol. 1
Madam, there are fifty thousand men slain this year in Europe, and not one Englishman.
to Queen Caroline, 1734, on the war of the Polish succession, in which the English had refused to participate
John Hervey
Memoirs
(written 1734–43, published 1848) vol. 1
We must muzzle this terrible young cornet of horse.
of the elder William Pitt, who had held a cornetcy before his election to Parliament,
c.
1736
in
Dictionary of National Biography
(1917–)
[Gratitude of place-expectants] is a lively sense of future favours.
W. Hazlitt
Lectures on the English Comic Writers
(1819) "On Wit and Humour".
1663–1708
I can endure my own despair,
But not another's hope.
"Song: Of All the Torments"
1593–1683
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
The Compleat Angler
(1653) "Epistle to the Reader"
I am, Sir, a Brother of the Angle.
The Compleat Angler
(1653) pt. 1, ch. 1
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
The Compleat Angler
(1653) pt. 1, ch. 5
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.
The Compleat Angler
(1653) pt. 1, ch. 18
But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.
Life of Donne
(1670 ed.)
The great Secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon.
Life of Herbert
(1670 ed.)
1698–1779
Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
to Lord Sandwich, in Joseph Priestley
Memoirs
(1807) vol. 1
1834–67
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrer the money to do it with.
Artemus Ward in London
(1867) ch. 7
Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?
Artemus Ward's Lecture
(1869) "Heber C. Kimball's Harem"
1914–81
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death".
Only One Earth
(1972)
