The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (362 page)

Reagan, Ronald
1911–

1
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

at a conference in Los Angeles, 2 March 1977.

2
An evil empire.
of the Soviet Union

speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, 8 March 1983

3
We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."
after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger with all its crew

broadcast from the Oval Office, 28 January 1986.

4
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.
statement to the American people revealing that he had Alzheimer's disease

in
Daily Telegraph
5 January 1995

 
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1
Lady of Spain, I adore you.
Right from the night I first saw you,
My heart has been yearning for you,
What else could any heart do?

"Lady of Spain" (1913 song)

 
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Red Cloud
1822–1909

1
You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe upon the Little Piney. His presence here is…an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be ploughed for corn? Dakotas, I am for war!

speech at council at Fort Laramie, 1866; Charles A. Eastman
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
(1918)

 
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Reed, Henry
1914–86

1
As we get older we do not get any younger.
Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five,
And this time last year I was fifty-four,
And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

"Chard Whitlow (Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)" (1946)

2
Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But today,
Today we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighbour gardens,
And today we have naming of parts.

"Lessons of the War: 1, Naming of Parts" (1946)

3
They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For today we have naming of parts.

"Lessons of the War: 1, Naming of Parts" (1946)

4
And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh?

Private Life of Hilda Tablet
(1954 radio play) in
Hilda Tablet and Others
(1971)

5
Modest? My word, no…He was an all-the-lights-on man.

A Very Great Man Indeed
(1953 radio play) in
Hilda Tablet and Others
(1971)

6
I have known her pass the whole evening without mentioning a single book, or
in fact anything unpleasant
, at all.

A Very Great Man Indeed
(1953 radio play) in
Hilda Tablet and Others
(1971)

 
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Reed, John
1887–1920

1
Ten days that shook the world.

title of book (1919)

 
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Reger, Max
1873–1916

1
I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me.
responding to a savage review by Rudolph Louis in Münchener Neueste Nachrichten, 7 February 1906

Nicolas Slonimsky
Lexicon of Musical Invective
(1953)

 
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