The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (40 page)

Berlin, Irving
1888–1989

1
I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing cheek-to-cheek.

"Cheek-to-Cheek" (1935 song) in
Top Hat

2
God bless America,
Land that I love.

"God Bless America" (1939 song)

3
There may be trouble ahead,
But while there's moonlight and music and love and romance,
Let's face the music and dance.

"Let's Face the Music and Dance" (1936 song) in
Follow the Fleet

4
A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.

"A Pretty Girl is like a Melody" (1919 song)

5
There's no business like show business.

title of song in
Annie Get Your Gun
(1946)

6
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know.

"White Christmas" (1942 song) in
Holiday Inn

7
Listen, kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
to Cole Porter, of the song "Rosalie"

Philip Furia
Poets of Tin Pan Alley
(1990)

 
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Berlin, Isaiah
1909–97

1
There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision…and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory…The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.

The Hedgehog and the Fox
(1953) sect. 1.

2
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Two Concepts of Liberty
(1958)

 
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Bernanos, Georges
1888–1948

1
The wish for prayer is a prayer in itself.

Journal d'un curé de campagne
(1936) ch. 2

2
Hell, madam, is to love no more.

Journal d'un curé de campagne
(1936) ch. 2

 
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Bernard
of Chartres d.
c.
1130

1
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

John of Salisbury
The Metalogicon
(1159) bk. 3, ch. 4, quoted in R. K. Merton
On the Shoulders of Giants
(1965) ch. 9

 
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Bernard, St
of Clairvaux 1090–1153

1
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

Epistles
no. 106.

2
I am a kind of chimaera of my age, neither cleric nor layman.

Epistles
no. 250

 
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Berne, Eric
1910–70

1
Games people play: the psychology of human relationships.

title of book (1964)

 
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