The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (357 page)

Pugin, Augustus Welby
1812–52

1
There is nothing worth living for but Christian Architecture and a boat.

in
The Builder
1852 vol. 10

2
Nothing can be more dangerous than looking at prints of buildings, and trying to imitate bits of them. These architectural books are as bad as the Scriptures in the hands of the Protestants.

J. Mordaunt Crook
Dilemma of Style
(1987)

 
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Pulitzer, Joseph
1847–1911

1
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
inscribed on the gateway to the Columbia School of Journalism in New York

W. J. Granberg
The World of Joseph Pulitzer
(1965)

 
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Pulteney, William
, Earl of Bath 1684–1764

1
For Sir Ph—p well knows
That innuendos
Will serve him no longer in verse or in prose,
Since twelve honest men have decided the cause,
And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws.
on the unsuccessful prosecution of The Craftsman, 1729 by Philip Yorke, later Lord Hardwicke

"The Honest Jury" (1729) st. 3

 
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Punch
1841–1992

1
Advice to persons about to marry.—"Don't."

4 January 1845.

2
You pays your money and you takes your choice.

3 January 1846

3
Never do to-day what you can put off till to-morrow.

22 December 1849

4
Who's 'im, Bill?
A stranger!
'Eave 'arf a brick at 'im.

25 February 1854

5
What is Matter?—Never mind.
What is Mind?—No matter.

14 July 1855

6
Mun, a had na' been the-erre abune two hours when—
bang
—went saxpence!!!

5 December 1868

7
Cats is "dogs" and rabbits is "dogs" and so's Parrats, but this 'ere "Tortis" is a insect, and there ain't no charge for it.

6 March 1869

8
Go directly—see what she's doing, and tell her she mustn't.

16 November 1872

9
There was one poor tiger that hadn't
got
a Christian.

3 April 1875

10
I never read books—I
write
them.

11 May 1878.

11
wife of two years' standing
: Oh yes! I'm sure he's not so fond of me as at first. He's away so much, neglects me dreadfully, and he's so cross when he comes home. What
shall
I do?
widow
: Feed the brute!

31 October 1885

12
I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones.
Oh no, my Lord, I assure you! Parts of it are excellent!

11 May 1895

13
Look here, Steward, if this is coffee, I want tea; but if this is tea, then I wish for coffee.

23 July 1902

14
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and then again I just sits.

24 October 1906

 
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Pushkin, Alexander
1799–1837

1
A tedious season they await
Who hear November at the gate.

Eugene Onegin
(1833) ch. 4, st. 40 (translated by Babette Deutsch)

2
Moscow: those syllables can start
A tumult in the Russian heart.

Eugene Onegin
(1833) ch. 7, st. 36 (translated by Babette Deutsch)

3
A green oak grows by a curving shore;
And round that oak hangs a golden chain.

Ruslan and Lyudmila
(1820) "Prologue" (translated by Elisaveta Fen)

 
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