The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (186 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
1809–98
My mission is to pacify Ireland.
on receiving news that he was to form his first cabinet, 1st December 1868
H. C. G. Matthew
Gladstone 1809–1874
(1986) ch. 5
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
diary, 31 December 1868
Let the Turks now carry away their abuses in the only possible manner, namely by carrying off themselves…one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.
Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East
(1876)
[An] Established Clergy will always be a Tory Corps d'Armée.
letter to Bishop Goodwin, 8 September 1881
There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down that had either morals or principles.
in conversation in 1882, recorded by Captain R. V. Briscoe
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
speech in Liverpool, 28 June 1886
The blubbering Cabinet.
of the colleagues who wept at his final Cabinet meeting
diary, 10 April 1887
The God-fearing and God-sustaining University of Oxford. I served her, perhaps mistakenly, but to the best of my ability.
farewell message, just before his death, May 1898
Roy Jenkins
Gladstone
(1995)
I absorb the vapour and return it as a flood.
on public speaking
Lord Riddell
Some Things That Matter
(1927 ed.)
It is not a Life at all. It is a Reticence, in three volumes.
on J. W. Cross's Life of George Eliot
E. F. Benson
As We Were
(1930) ch. 6
[Money should] fructify in the pockets of the people.
H. G. C. Matthew
Gladstone 1809–1874
(1986)
fl. 1747
Take your hare when it is cased.
"cased" = skinned
The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy
(1747) ch. 1
1743–1805
Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr Gibbon?
Henry Best
Personal and Literary Memorials
(1829); alternatively attributed to the Duke of Cumberland and King George III
1930–
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.
Le Petit Soldat
(1960 film)
georges franju
: Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end.
jean-luc godard
: Certainly, but not necessarily in that order.
in
Time
14 September 1981.
1856–1925
What is this that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicat Motorem Bum!
letter to C. R. L. Fletcher, 10 January 1914, in
Reliquiae
(1926) vol. 1
1897–1945
We can manage without butter but not, for example, without guns. If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.
speech in Berlin, 17 January 1936.
Making noise is an effective means of opposition.
Ernest K. Bramsted
Goebbels and National Socialist Propaganda 1925–45
(1965)