The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (439 page)
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Tucker, Sophie
1884–1966
1884–1966
1
From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.
From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.
Michael Freedland
Sophie
(1978)
Turgenev, Ivan
1818–83
1818–83
1
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
Just try and set death aside. It sets you aside, and that's the end of it!
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
Fathers and Sons
(1862) ch. 9 (tr. Rosemary Edmonds)
Just try and set death aside. It sets you aside, and that's the end of it!
Fathers and Sons
(1862) ch. 27 (tr. Rosemary Edmonds)
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
Poems in Prose
(1881) "Prayer"
Turgot, A. R. J.
1727–81
1727–81
1
Eripuit coelo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis.He snatched the lightning shaft from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants.
Eripuit coelo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis.He snatched the lightning shaft from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants.
inscription for a bust of Benjamin Franklin, inventor of the lightning conductor.
Turing, Alan
1912–54
1912–54
1
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
A. P. Hodges
Alan Turing: the Enigma
(1983)
Turner, Charles Tennyson
1808–79
1808–79
1
Bright over Europe fell her golden hair.
Bright over Europe fell her golden hair.
"Letty's Globe" (1880)
Turner, J. M. W.
1775–1851
1775–1851
1
He
sees
more in my pictures than I ever painted!
of John Ruskin
If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
when a friend complained of the blackness of the sails in "Peace—Burial at Sea" (1844)
He
sees
more in my pictures than I ever painted!
of John Ruskin
Mary Lloyd
Sunny Memories
(1879) vol. 1
If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
when a friend complained of the blackness of the sails in "Peace—Burial at Sea" (1844)
in
Dictionary of National Biography
(1917–)
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