The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (251 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
d. 1594
All people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice.
"All people that on earth do dwell" in
Fourscore and Seven Psalms of David
(Geneva, 1561; later known as the Geneva Psalter); usually sung to the tune "Old Hundredth", and often known by that name
O enter then his gates with praise,
Approach with joy his courts unto.
"All people that on earth do dwell" in
Fourscore and Seven Psalms of David
(Geneva, 1561; later known as the Geneva Psalter)
1880–1916
My only programme for Ireland consists, in equal parts, of Home Rule and the Ten Commandments. My only counsel to Ireland is, that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.
"Apology"
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.
"On Crossing the Irish Sea"
1779–1843
'Tis the star-spangled banner; O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
"The Star-Spangled Banner" (1814)
My biological clock is ticking so loud I'm nearly deafened by it. They search me going into planes.
"Late Opening at the Last Chance Saloon" (1997)
1883–1946
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
letter to Duncan Grant, 15 December 1917
Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
(1919) ch. 6
I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
The End of Laissez-Faire
(1926) pt. 1
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of
laissez-faire
to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory) there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.
General Theory
(1936) bk. 3, ch. 10
Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
General Theory
(1947 ed.) ch. 24
In the long run
we are all dead.
A Tract on Monetary Reform
(1923) ch. 3
We threw good housekeeping to the winds. But we saved ourselves and helped save the world.
of Britain in the Second World War
A. J. P. Taylor
English History, 1914–1945
(1965)
1900–89
If laws are needed, Islam has established them all. There is no need…after establishing a government, to sit down and draw up laws.
Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini
(1981) "Islamic Government"
I would like to inform all the intrepid Muslims in the world that the author of the book entitled
The Satanic Verses
, which has been compiled, printed and published in opposition to Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an, as well as those publishers who were aware of its contents, have been declared
madhur el dam
[those whose blood must be shed]. I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them quickly, wherever they find them, so that no-one will dare to insult Islam again. Whoever is killed in this path will be regarded as a martyr.
fatwa against Salman Rushdie, issued 14 February 1989.