The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (111 page)

Clough, Arthur Hugh
1819–61

1
Am I prepared to lay down my life for the British female?
Really, who knows?…
Ah, for a child in the street I could strike; for the full-blown lady—
Somehow, Eustace, alas! I have not felt the vocation.

Amours de Voyage
(1858) canto 2, pt. 4

2
Afloat. We move: Delicious! Ah,
What else is like the gondola?

Dipsychus
(1865) sc. 5

3
How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!
How pleasant it is to have money.

Dipsychus
(1865) sc. 5

4
Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?

"The Latest Decalogue" (1862).

5
Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive
Officiously to keep alive.

"The Latest Decalogue" (1862)

6
Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it.

"The Latest Decalogue" (1862)

7
Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been, things remain.

"Say not the struggle naught availeth" (1855)

8
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.

"Say not the struggle naught availeth" (1855)

 
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Cobain, Kurt
1967–94

1
I'd rather be dead than cool.

"Stay Away" (1991 song)

 
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Cobbett, William
1762–1835

1
Nouns of number, or multitude, such as Mob, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons, Regiment, Court of King's Bench, Den of Thieves, and the like.

English Grammar
(1817) letter 17 "Syntax as Relating to Pronouns"

2
The great wen of all.
of London

Rural Rides: The Kentish Journal
in
Cobbett's Weekly Political Register
5 January 1822, vol. 40

 
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Cockburn, Alison
1713–94

1
O fickle Fortune, why this cruel sporting?
Why thus torment us poor sons of day?
Nae mair your smiles can cheer me, nae mair your frowns can fear me,
For the flowers of the forest are a' wade away.
wade weeded (often quoted as "For the flowers of the forest are withered away")

"The Flowers of the Forest" (1765)

 
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Cockburn, Claud
1904–81

1
Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.
winning entry for a dullest headline competition at The Times

In Time of Trouble
(1956) ch. 10

 
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Cocteau, Jean
1889–1963

1
Life is a horizontal fall.

Opium
(1930)

2
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Le Rappel à l'ordre
(1926) "Le Coq et l'Arlequin"

 
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