The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (352 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
There still remains, to mortify a wit,
The many-headed monster of the pit.
Imitations of Horace
Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 304
Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame,
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Imitations of Horace
Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 1, l. 135
Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade.
Pastorals
(1709) "Summer" l. 73
They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.
The Rape of the Lock
(1714) canto 1, l. 100
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
The Rape of the Lock
(1714) canto 2, l. 27
Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
The Rape of the Lock
(1714) canto 2, l. 52
Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
The Rape of the Lock
(1714) canto 3, l. 7
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
The Rape of the Lock
(1714) canto 3, l. 16.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jury-men may dine.
The Rape of the Lock
(1714) canto 3, l. 21
Coffee, (which makes the politician wise,
And see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes).
The Rape of the Lock
(1714) canto 3, l. 117
Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,
When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last.
The Rape of the Lock
(1714) canto 3, l. 157
Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
letter to Edward Blount, 27 August 1714
To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Miscellanies
(1727) vol. 2 "Thoughts on Various Subjects"
All gardening is landscape-painting.
Joseph Spence
Anecdotes
(ed. J. Osborn, 1966) no. 606
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
to George, Lord Lyttelton, 15 May 1744
1902–94
We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
The Open Society and its Enemies
(1945) introduction
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
"The Philosophy of Science" in C. A. Mace (ed.)
British Philosophy in the Mid-Century
(1957)
1891–1964
But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion.
Yes I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way.
"Always True to You in my Fashion" (1949 song)
In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
Now, heaven knows,
Anything goes.
"Anything Goes" (1934 song)
When they begin the Beguine.
"Begin the Beguine" (1935 song)
I get no kick from champagne,
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all,
So tell me why should it be true
That I get a kick out of you?
"I Get a Kick Out of You" (1934 song) in
Anything Goes
Birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love.
"Let's Do It" (1954 song; words added to the 1928 original)
Miss Otis regrets (she's unable to lunch today).
title of song (1934)
What a swell party this is.
"Well, Did You Evah?" (1940 song; revived for the film
High Society
, 1956)
You're the top! You're the Coliseum,
You're the top! You're the Louvre Museum,
"You're the Top" (1934 song) in
Anything Goes
1731–1808
…One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero.
Death
(1759) l. 154.
War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
Death
(1759) l. 179.
1832–1909
The strife is o'er, the battle done;
Now is the Victor's triumph won;
O let the song of praise be sung:
Alleluia!
"The strife is o'er, the battle done" (1861 hymn); translation of "Finita iam sunt praelia" (
c.
1695)
