The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (113 page)

Colette
1873–1954

1
Her childhood, then her adolescence, had taught her patience, hope, silence and the easy manipulation of the weapons and virtues of all prisoners.

Chéri
(1920) pt. 2 (translated by Janet Flanner, 1930)

2
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

La Fin de Chéri
(1926) (translated by Viola Gerard Garvin)

 
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Collingbourne, William
d. 1484

1
The Cat, the Rat, and Lovell our dog
Rule all England under a hog.
referring to Sir William Catesby (d. 1485), Sir Richard Ratcliffe (d. 1485), Lord Lovell (1454–
c.
1487), whose crest was a dog, and King Richard III, whose emblem was a wild boar

Robert Fabyan
The Concordance of Chronicles
(ed. H. Ellis, 1811)

 
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Collingwood, Lord
1748–1810

1
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
before the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805

G. L. Newnham Collingwood (ed.)
A Selection from the Correspondence of Lord Collingwood
(1828) vol. 1

 
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Collingwood, R. G.
1889–1943

1
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Speculum Mentis
(1924).

 
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1
Any old iron, any old iron,
Any any old old iron?
You look neat
Talk about a treat,
You look dapper from your napper to your feet.

"Any Old Iron" (1911 song, with E. A. Sheppard and Fred Terry); the second line often sung "Any any any old iron?"

2
My old man said, "Follow the van,
Don't dilly-dally on the way!"
Off went the cart with the home packed in it,
I walked behind with my old cock linnet.
But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied,
Lost the van and don't know where to roam.
You can't trust the "specials" like the old time "coppers"
When you can't find your way home.

"Don't Dilly-Dally on the Way" (1919 song, with Fred Leigh); popularized by Marie Lloyd

 
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Collins, Michael
1890–1922

1
That volley which we have just heard is the only speech which it is proper to make over the grave of a dead Fenian.
at the funeral of Thomas Ashe, who had died in prison while on hunger strike

Glasnevin cemetery, 30th September 1917

2
Think—what I have got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past seven hundred years. Will anyone be satisfied at the bargain? Will anyone? I tell you this—early this morning I signed my death warrant. I thought at the time how odd, how ridiculous—a bullet may just as well have done the job five years ago.
on signing the treaty establishing the Irish Free State; he was shot from ambush in the following year

letter, 6 December 1921

3
We've been waiting seven hundred years, you can have the seven minutes.
arriving at Dublin Castle for the handover by British forces on 16 January 1922, and being told that he was seven minutes late

Tim Pat Coogan
Michael Collins
(1990); attributed

4
My own fellow-countymen won't kill me.
before leaving for Cork where he was ambushed and killed, 20 August 1922

James Mackay
Michael Collins
(1996)

 
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