The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (42 page)

Bevan, Aneurin
1897–1960

1
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

speech at Blackpool, 24 May 1945

2
The Tory Party…So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

speech at Manchester, 4 July 1948

3
If you carry this resolution you will send Britain's Foreign Secretary naked into the conference chamber.
speaking against a motion proposing unilateral nuclear disarmament by the UK at Labour Party Conference in Brighton, 3 October 1957

in
Daily Herald
4 October 1957

4
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

in
The Times
29 March 1960

5
I stuffed their mouths with gold.
of his handling of the consultants during the establishment of the National Health Service

Brian Abel-Smith
The Hospitals 1800–1948
(1964) ch. 29

 
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Beveridge, William Henry
1879–1963

1
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction…the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

Social Insurance and Allied Services
(1942) pt. 7

 
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Bevin, Ernest
1881–1951

1
My [foreign] policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria Station and go anywhere I damn well please.

in
Spectator
20 April 1951

2
If you open that Pandora's Box, you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.
on the Council of Europe

Roderick Barclay
Ernest Bevin and the Foreign Office
(1975) ch. 3

3
on the observation that Aneurin Bevan was sometimes his own worst enemy:
Not while I'm alive 'e ain't!
also attributed to Bevin of Herbert Morrison

Roderick Barclay
Ernest Bevin and Foreign Office
(1975)

 
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textual translations are those of J. Mascaro, 1978
1
If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die.
He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies.

ch. 2, v. 19

2
I [Krishna] am all-powerful Time which destroys all things, and I have come here to slay these men. Even if thou does not fight, all the warriors facing thee shall die.

ch. 11, v. 32.

3
Only by love can men see me, and know me, and come unto me.

ch. 11, v. 54

 
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Bhutto, Benazir
1953–

1
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

interview on
60 Minutes
, CBS-TV, 8 August 1986

 
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The Bible
(Authorized Version, 1611)

1
Upon the setting of that bright Occidental Star, Queen Elizabeth of most happy memory.

The Epistle Dedicatory

Old Testament
Genesis
2
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Genesis ch. 1, v. 1

3
And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis ch. 1, v. 5

4
And God saw that it was good.

Genesis ch. 1, v. 10

5
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden.

Genesis ch. 2, v. 8

6
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis ch. 2, v. 9

7
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis ch. 2, v. 17

8
It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Genesis ch. 2, v. 18

9
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.

Genesis ch. 2, v. 22

10
Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.

Genesis ch. 2, v. 23.

11
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Genesis ch. 2, v. 24

12
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field.

Genesis ch. 3, v. 1

13
And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
"and made themselves breeches" in the Geneva Bible, 1560, known for that reason as the "Breeches Bible"

Genesis ch. 3, v. 7

14
The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

Genesis ch. 3, v. 12

15
The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Genesis ch. 3, v. 13

16
It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis ch. 3, v. 15

17
In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.

Genesis ch. 3, v. 16

18
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.

Genesis ch. 3, v. 19

19
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Genesis ch. 3, v. 19.

20
Am I my brother's keeper?

Genesis ch. 4, v. 9

21
And the Lord set a mark upon Cain.

Genesis ch. 4, v. 15

22
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Genesis ch. 4, v. 16

23
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Genesis ch. 5, v. 24

24
There were giants in the earth in those days.

Genesis ch. 6, v. 4

25
There went in two and two unto Noah into the Ark, the male and the female.

Genesis ch. 7, v. 9

26
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.

Genesis ch. 8, v. 9

27
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

Genesis ch. 9, v. 6

28
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis ch. 9, v. 13

29
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

Genesis ch. 10, v. 9

30
His [Ishmael's] hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.

Genesis ch. 16, v. 12

31
But his [Lot's] wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis ch. 19, v. 26

32
A ram caught in a thicket.

Genesis ch. 22, v. 13

33
Esau selleth his birthright for a mess of pottage.
chapter heading in Geneva Bible, 1560

Genesis ch. 25

34
Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

Genesis ch. 27, v. 11

35
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

Genesis ch. 27, v. 22

36
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Genesis ch. 28, v. 12

37
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel.

Genesis ch. 29, v. 20

38
The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

Genesis ch. 31, v. 49

39
He made him a coat of many colours.

Genesis ch. 37, v. 3

40
Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt.

Genesis ch. 42, v. 1

41
Then shall ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis ch. 42, v. 38

42
Ye shall eat the fat of the land.

Genesis ch. 45, v. 18

43
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.

Genesis ch. 49, v. 4

Exodus
44
I have been a stranger in a strange land.

Exodus ch. 2, v. 22

45
Behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Exodus ch. 3, v. 2

46
Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Exodus ch. 3, v. 5

47
A land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus ch. 3, v. 8

48
I am that I am
.

Exodus ch. 3, v. 14

49
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

Exodus ch. 7, v. 3

50
Let my people go.

Exodus ch. 7, v. 16

51
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Exodus ch. 12, v. 8

52
Ye shall eat it in haste; it is the Lord's passover.

Exodus ch. 12, v. 11

53
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast.

Exodus ch. 12, v. 12

54
And they spoiled the Egyptians.

Exodus ch. 12, v. 36

55
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light.

Exodus ch. 13, v. 21

56
Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full.

Exodus ch. 16, v. 3

57
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Exodus ch. 20, v. 3

58
I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

Exodus ch. 20, v. 5.

59
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

Exodus ch. 20, v. 7

60
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Exodus ch. 20, v. 8

61
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Exodus ch. 20, v. 12.

62
Life for life,
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.

Exodus ch. 21, v. 23

63
These be thy gods, O Israel.

Exodus ch. 32, v. 4

64
Thou art a stiffnecked people.

Exodus ch. 33, v. 3

Leviticus
65
Let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

Leviticus ch. 16, v. 10

66
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

Leviticus ch. 18, v. 5.

67
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Leviticus ch. 19, v. 18.

Numbers
68
The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

Numbers ch. 6, v. 24

69
These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land.

Numbers ch. 13, v. 16

70
What hath God wrought!
quoted by Samuel Morse in the first electric telegraph message, 24 May 1844

Numbers ch. 23, v. 23

71
Be sure your sin will find you out.

Numbers ch. 32, v. 23

Deuteronomy
72
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.

Deuteronomy ch. 6, v. 4.

73
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams…Thou shalt not hearken.

Deuteronomy ch. 13, v. 1

74
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Deuteronomy ch. 32, v. 10

75
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

Deuteronomy ch. 33, v. 27

Joshua
76
When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat.

Joshua ch. 6, v. 20

77
Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation.

Joshua ch. 9, v. 21

78
I am going the way of all the earth.

Joshua ch. 23, v. 14

Judges
79
I arose a mother in Israel.

Judges ch. 5, v. 7

80
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

Judges ch. 5, v. 20

81
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

Judges ch. 5, v. 25

82
Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

Judges ch. 5, v. 28

83
Faint, yet pursuing.

Judges ch. 8, v. 4

84
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him.

Judges ch. 12, v. 6

85
Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.

Judges ch. 14, v. 14

86
He smote them hip and thigh.

Judges ch. 15, v. 8

87
With the jawbone of an ass…have I slain a thousand men.

Judges ch. 15, v. 16

88
The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.

Judges ch. 16, v. 9

89
From Dan even to Beer-sheba.

Judges ch. 20, v. 1

90
The people arose as one man.

Judges ch. 20, v. 8

Ruth
91
Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

Ruth ch. 1, v. 16

I Samuel
92
Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.

I Samuel ch. 3, v. 9

93
And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel.