The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (292 page)

Major, John
1943–

1
If the policy isn't hurting, it isn't working.
on controlling inflation

speech in Northampton, 27 October 1989

2
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

interview with
Mail on Sunday
21 February 1993

3
Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county [cricket] grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers, and—as George Orwell said—old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist.

speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, 22 April 1993.

4
It is time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on the state.

speech to the Conservative Party Conference, 8 October 1993

5
So right. OK. We lost.
on election night

in
Guardian
3 May 1997

 
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Malamud, Bernard
1914–86

1
There's no such thing as an unpolitical man, especially a Jew.

The Fixer
(1966) ch. 9

 
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Malcolm X
1925–65

1
If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison.

in an interview, June 1963

 
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Mallarmé, Stéphane
1842–98

1
La chair est triste, hélas! et j'ai lu tous les livres.
The flesh, alas, is wearied; and I have read all the books there are.

"Brise Marin" (1887)

2
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.Prelude to the afternoon of a faun.

title of poem (
c.
1865)

 
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Mallet, David
(or
Malloch
)
c.
1705–65

1
O grant me, Heaven, a middle state,
Neither too humble nor too great;
More than enough, for nature's ends,
With something left to treat my friends.

"Imitation of Horace".

 
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Mallory, George Leigh
1886–1924

1
Because it's there.
on being asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest (Mallory was lost on Everest in the following year)

in
New York Times
18 March 1923

 
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