The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (101 page)

Chamberlain, Joseph
1836–1914

1
Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904.

2
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

speech at Birmingham, 12 May 1904

 
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Chamberlain, Neville
1869–1940

1
How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.
on Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland

radio broadcast, 27 September 1938

2
This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.

speech from 10 Downing Street, 30 September 1938

3
This morning, the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final Note stating that, unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

radio broadcast, 3 September 1939

4
[Hitler] missed the bus.

speech at Central Hall, Westminster, 4 April 1940

 
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Chambers, Haddon
1860–1921

1
The long arm of coincidence.

Captain Swift
(1888) act 2

 
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Chamfort, Nicolas-Sébastien
1741–94

1
The poor are Europe's blacks.

Maximes et Pensées
(1796) ch. 8

2
Sois mon frère, ou je te tue.Be my brother, or I kill you.
his interpretation of "Fraternité ou la mort [Fraternity or death]"

P. R. Anguis (ed.)
Oeuvres Complètes
(1824) vol. 1 "Notice Historique sur la Vie et les Écrits de Chamfort"

 
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Chandler, John
1806–76

1
Conquering kings their titles take
From the foes they captive make.

hymn (1837); translation from a Latin original: "
Victis sibi cognomina sumant tyranni gentibus…
"

 
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Chandler, Raymond
1888–1959

1
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

Farewell, My Lovely
(1940) ch. 13

2
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

in
Atlantic Monthly
December 1944 "The Simple Art of Murder"

3
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

letter to Edward Weeks, 18 January 1947

4
When in doubt have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

attributed

 
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