The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (146 page)

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Dumouriez, Charles François du Périer
1739–1823
1
The courtiers who surround him have forgotten nothing and learnt nothing.
of Louis XVIII, at the time of the Declaration of Verona, September 1795; quoted by Napoleon in his Declaration to the French on his return from Elba, 1815

Examen impartial d'un Écrit intitulé Déclaration de Louis XVIII
(1795).

Dunbar, Paul Lawrence
1872–1906
1
I know why the caged bird sings!
adopted by Maya Angelou as the title of her autobiography, 1969

"Sympathy" st. 3.

Dunbar, William
c.
1465–1513
1
Timor mortis conturbat me.
Fear of death troubles me.

"Lament for the Makaris [Makers]"

Duncan, Isadora
1878–1927
1
Adieu, mes amis. Je vais à la gloire.Farewell, my friends. I go to glory.
before her scarf caught in a car wheel, breaking her neck

Mary Desti
Isadora Duncan's End
(1929) ch. 25

Dunlop, Ian
1940–
1
The shock of the new: seven historic exhibitions of modern art.

title of book (1972)

Dunn, Douglas
1942–
1
In a country like this
Our ghosts outnumber us…

"At Falkland Palace" (1988)

2
My poems should be Clyde-built, crude and sure,
With images of those dole-deployed
To honour the indomitable Reds,
Clydesiders of slant steel and angled cranes.

"Clydesiders" (1974)

Dunne, Sean
1956–97
1
The country wears their going like a scar,
Today their relatives save to support and
Send others in planes for the new diaspora.

"Letter from Ireland" (1991)

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