The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (312 page)

Mnouchkine, Ariane
1934–

1
A cultural Chernobyl.
of Euro Disney

in
Harper's Magazine
July 1992.

 
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Mola, Emilio
1887–1937

1
Fifth column.
an extra body of supporters claimed by General Mola in a broadcast as being within Madrid when he besieged the city with four columns of Nationalist forces

in
New York Times
16 and 17 October 1936

 
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Molière
1622–73

1
One should eat to live, and not live to eat.

L'Avare
(1669) act 3, sc. 1

2
All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
(1671) act 2, sc. 4

3
Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
(1671) act 2, sc. 4

4
Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?What the devil was he doing in that galley?

Les Fourberies de Scapin
(1671) act 2, sc. 11

5
géronte
: It seems to me you are locating them wrongly: the heart is on the left and the liver is on the right.
sganarelle
: Yes, in the old days that was so, but we have changed all that, and we now practise medicine by a completely new method.

Le Médecin malgré lui
(1667) act 2, sc. 4

6
Here [in Paris] they hang a man first, and try him afterwards.

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
(1670) act 1, sc. 5

7
L'homme est, je vous l'avoue, un méchant animal.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Le Tartuffe
(1669) act 5, sc. 6

 
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Moltke, Helmuth von
1800–91

1
Everlasting peace is a dream, and not even a pleasant one; and war is a necessary part of God's arrangement of the world…Without war the world would deteriorate into materialism.

letter to Dr J. K. Bluntschli, 11 December 1880

 
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Mondale, Walter
1928–

1
When I hear your new ideas I'm reminded of that ad, "Where's the beef?"

in a televised debate with Gary Hart, 11 March 1984

 
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Monmouth, James, Duke of
1649–85

1
Do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell.
to his executioner

T. B. Macaulay
History of England
vol. 1 (1849) ch. 5

 
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