The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (217 page)

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Hillel
"The Elder"
c.
60–9
1
What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbour: that is the whole Torah.

in
Talmud
Shabbat 31a

2
If I am not for myself who is for me? and being for my own self what am I? If not now when?

in
Talmud
Mishnah "Pirqei Avot" 1:14

Hilton, James
1900–54
1
Nothing really wrong with him—only anno domini, but that's the most fatal complaint of all, in the end.

Goodbye, Mr Chips
(1934) ch. 1

Hippocrates
c.
460
bc
1
Life is short, the art long.
often quoted as "Ars longa, vita brevis", after Seneca's rendering in De Brevitate Vitae sect. 1

Aphorisms
sect. 1, para. 1 (tr. W. H. S. Jones).

Hirohito, Emperor
1901–89
1
The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.
announcing Japan's surrender, in a broadcast to his people after atom bombs had destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki

on 15 August 1945

Hirst, Damien
1965–
1
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
after winning the 1995 Turner Prize

in
Observer
3 December 1995 "Sayings of the Week"

Hitchcock, Alfred
1899–1980
1
Actors are cattle.

in
Saturday Evening Post
22 May 1943

2
Television has brought back murder into the home—where it belongs.

in
Observer
19 December 1965

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