The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (228 page)

Hurston, Zora Neale
c.
1901–60

1
I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

How It Feels to Be Colored Me
(1928)

 
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Huss, John
c.
1372–1415

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O sancta simplicitas!O holy simplicity!
at the stake, seeing an aged peasant bringing a bundle of twigs to throw on the pile

J. W. Zincgreff and J. L. Weidner
Apophthegmata
(Amsterdam, 1653) pt. 3.

 
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Hussein, Saddam
1937–

1
The mother of battles.
popular interpretation of his description of the approaching Gulf War

speech in Baghdad, 6 January 1991

 
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Hutcheson, Francis
1694–1746

1
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
(1725) Treatise 1

2
That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
(1725) Treatise 2.

 
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Huxley, Aldous
1894–1963

1
The proper study of mankind is books.

Crome Yellow
(1921) ch. 28.

2
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Do What You Will
(1929) "Wordsworth in the Tropics"

3
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Ends and Means
(1937) ch. 8

4
Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Eyeless in Gaza
(1936) ch. 27

5
Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

"Ninth Philosopher's Song" (1920)

 
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Huxley, Julian
1887–1975

1
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Religion without Revelation
(1957 ed.) ch. 3.

 
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