The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (220 page)

Hogben, Lancelot
1895–1975

1
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen.

Science for the Citizen
(1938) epilogue

 
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Hogg, James
1770–1835

1
Where the pools are bright and deep
Where the gray trout lies asleep,
Up the river and o'er the lea
That's the way for Billy and me.

"A Boy's Song" (1838)

2
We'll o'er the water, we'll o'er the sea,
We'll o'er the water to Charlie;
Come weel, come wo, we'll gather and go,
And live or die wi' Charlie.

"O'er the Water to Charlie" in
Jacobite Relics of Scotland
Second Series (1821)

3
The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner.

title of novel (1824)

 
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Holbach, Paul Henri, Baron d'
1723–89

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If ignorance of nature gave birth to the Gods, knowledge of nature is destined to destroy them.

Système de la Nature
(1770) pt. 2, ch. 1

 
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Holiday, Billie
1915–59

1
Mama may have, papa may have,
But God bless the child that's got his own!
That's got his own.

"God Bless the Child" (1941 song, with Arthur Herzog Jnr)

2
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

"Strange Fruit" (1939)

3
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three.

Lady Sings the Blues
(1956)

 
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Holland, Henry Fox, Lord
1705–74

1
If Mr Selwyn calls again, shew him up: if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.
during his last illness

J. H. Jesse
George Selwyn and his Contemporaries
(1844) vol. 3

 
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Holland, Henry Scott
1847–1918

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Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

sermon preached on Whitsunday 1910

 
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