The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (133 page)

Degas, Edgar
1834–1917

1
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Paul Lafond
Degas
(1918)

 
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de Gaulle, Charles
1890–1970

1
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!

proclamation, 18 June 1940

2
Since they whose duty it was to wield the sword of France have let it fall shattered to the ground, I have taken up the broken blade.

speech, 13 July 1940

3
Europe des patries.A Europe of nations.
widely associated with De Gaulle,
c.
1962, and taken as encapsulating his views, although perhaps not coined by him

J. Lacouture
De Gaulle: the Ruler
(1991)

4
One does not put Voltaire in the Bastille.
when asked to arrest Sartre, in the 1960s

in
Encounter
June 1975

 
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Dekker, Thomas
1570–1641

1
That great fishpond (the sea).

The Honest Whore
(1604) pt. 1, act 1, sc. 2

2
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise.

Patient Grissil
(1603) act 4, sc. 2

 
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de la Mare, Walter
1873–1956

1
Ann, Ann!
Come! quick as you can!
There's a fish that
talks
In the frying-pan.

"Alas, Alack" (1913)

2
Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.

"All That's Past" (1912)

3
He is crazed with the spell of far Arabia,
They have stolen his wits away.

"Arabia" (1912)

4
Look thy last on all things lovely.

"Fare Well" (1918)

5
"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door.

"The Listeners" (1912)

6
"Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word," he said.

"The Listeners" (1912)

7
What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I:
I, this incessant snow,
This northern sky;
Soldiers, this solitude
Through which we go
Is I.

"Napoleon" (1906)

8
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon.

"Silver" (1913)

 
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Demosthenes
c.
384
bc

1
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots—suspicion.

Philippic

2
When asked what was first in oratory, [he] replied to his questioner, "action," what second, "action," and again third, "action".

Cicero
Brutus
ch. 37, sect. 142

 
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Dempsey, Jack
1895–1983

1
Honey, I just forgot to duck.
to his wife, on losing the World Heavyweight title, 23 September 1926; after a failed attempt on his life in 1981, Ronald Reagan quipped "I forgot to duck"

J. and B. P. Dempsey
Dempsey
(1977)

 
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