The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (99 page)

Cato
the Elder (or
"the Censor"
) 234
bc

1
Delenda est Carthago.Carthage must be destroyed.
words concluding every speech Cato made in the Senate

Pliny the Elder
Naturalis Historia
bk. 15, ch. 74

2
Rem tene; verba sequentur.Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Caius Julius Victor
Ars Rhetorica
"De inventione"

 
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Catt, Carrie Chapman
1859–1947

1
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide…whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

speech at Stockholm,
Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?
(1911)

 
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Catullus
c.
84
bc

1
Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque,
Et quantum est hominum venustiorum.
Passer mortuus est meae puellae,
Passer, deliciae meae puellae.
Mourn, you powers of Charm and Desire, and all you who are endowed with charm. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's darling.

Carmina
no. 3

2
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus.
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love.

Carmina
no. 5.

3
Da mi basia mille.
Give me a thousand kisses.

Carmina
no. 5

4
Paene insularum, Sirmio, insularumque
Ocelle.
Sirmio, bright eye of peninsulas and islands.

Carmina
no. 31

5
Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.
For there is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.

Carmina
no. 39.

6
Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
I hate and I love: why I do so you may well ask. I do not know, but I feel it happen and am in agony.

Carmina
no. 85

7
Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.
And so, my brother, hail, and farewell evermore!

Carmina
no. 101 (tr. Sir William Marris)

 
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Causley, Charles
1917–

1
Timothy Winters comes to school
With eyes as wide as a football-pool,
Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters:
A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters.

"Timothy Winters" (1957)

 
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Cavafy, Constantine
1863–1933

1
When you set out for Ithaka
ask that your way be long.

"Ithaka" (1911) (tr. E. Keeley and P. Sherrard)

2
And now, what will become of us without the barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution.

"Waiting for the Barbarians" (1904)

 
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Cavell, Edith
1865–1915

1
Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
on the eve of her execution

in
The Times
23 October 1915

 
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