The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (124 page)

Creighton, Mandell
1843–1901

1
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

in
The Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton
by his wife (1904) vol. 2

 
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Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean de
1735–1813

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What then is the American, this new man? He is either a European, or the descendant of a European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country…Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.

Letters from an American Farmer
(1782)

 
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Crewe, Ranulphe
1558–1646

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And yet time hath his revolution; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things,
finis rerum
, an end of names and dignities and whatsoever is terrene; and why not of De Vere? Where is Bohun, where's Mowbray, where's Mortimer? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. And yet let the name and dignity of De Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God.

speech in Oxford Peerage Case, 22 March 1626

 
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Crick, Francis
1916– and
Watson, James D.
1928–

1
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
proposing the double helix as the structure of DNA, and hence the chemical mechanism of heredity

in
Nature
25 April 1953

 
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Crisp, Quentin
1908–99

1
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The Naked Civil Servant
(1968) ch. 15

2
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.

The Naked Civil Servant
(1968) ch. 29

 
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Critchley, Julian
1930–2000

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The only safe pleasure for a parliamentarian is a bag of boiled sweets.

in
Listener
10 June 1982

 
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