The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (94 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
1935–
We must recall that the Church is always "one generation away from extinction."
Working Party Report
Youth A Part: Young People and the Church
(1996) foreword
c.
1687–1743
Let the verse the subject fit,
Little subject, little wit.
"Namby-Pamby: or, A Panegyric on the New Versification" (1725)
Of all the girls that are so smart
There's none like pretty Sally,
She is the darling of my heart,
And she lives in our alley.
"Sally in our Alley" (1729)
1801–66
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
letter to Thomas Carlyle, 7 May 1822
1795–1881
In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man.
Chartism
(1839) ch. 6
The foul sluggard's comfort: "It will last my time."
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
(1838) "Count Cagliostro. Flight Last"
A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
(1838) "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter"
To the very last he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of
La carrière ouverte aux talents
, The tools to him that can handle them.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
(1838) "Sir Walter Scott" (
La carrière…
Career open to the talents)
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
(1838) "The State of German Literature".
"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
History of Frederick the Great
(1858–65) bk. 4, ch. 3.
A whiff of grapeshot.
History of the French Revolution
(1837) vol. 1, bk. 5, ch. 3
The seagreen Incorruptible.
describing Robespierre
History of the French Revolution
(1837) vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 4
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
History of the French Revolution
(1837) vol. 3, bk. 7, ch. 7
Aristocracy of the Moneybag.
History of the French Revolution
(1837) vol. 3, bk. 7, ch. 7
The true University of these days is a collection of books.
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic
(1841) "The Hero as Man of Letters"
A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions mostly fools.
Latter-Day Pamphlets
(1850) "Parliaments".
The Dismal Science.
on political economy
Latter-Day Pamphlets
(1850) "The Present Time"
Transcendental moonshine.
on the influence of a romantic imagination in motivating Sterling to enter the priesthood
The Life of John Sterling
(1851) pt. 1, ch. 15
Captains of industry.
Past and Present
(1843) bk. 4, ch. 4 (title)
Man is a tool-using animal…Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Sartor Resartus
(1834) bk. 1, ch. 5
The everlasting No.
Sartor Resartus
(1834) bk. 2, ch. 7 (title)
What a sad want I am in of libraries, of books to gather facts from! Why is there not a Majesty's library in every county town? There is a Majesty's jail and gallows in every one.
diary, 18 May 1832
Gad! she'd better!
on hearing that Margaret Fuller "accept[ed] the universe"
William James
Varieties of Religious Experience
(1902) lecture 2
Macaulay is well for a while, but one wouldn't
live
under Niagara.
R. M. Milnes
Notebook
(1838)
1941–98
The only position for women in SNCC is prone.
response to a question about the position of women
at a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee conference, November 1964