The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

1.156 Casimir, Comte de Montrond 1768-1843
Dèfiez-vous des premiers mouvements parce qu’ils sont bons.
Have no truck with first impulses for they are always generous ones.
Attributed, in Comte J. d’Estourmel ‘Derniers Souvenirs’ (1860) p. 319, where the attribution to Talleyrand is
denied.
1.157 Marquis of Montrose
See James Graham (7.77) in Volume I
1.158 Percy Montrose
In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine,
Dwelt a miner, Forty-niner,
And his daughter, Clementine.
Oh, my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine!
Thou art lost and gone for ever, dreadful sorry, Clementine.
‘Clementine’ (1884)
1.159 Clement C. Moore 1779-1863
’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.
‘A Visit from St Nicholas’ (December 1823)
1.160 Edward Moore 1712-57
This is adding insult to injuries.
‘The Foundling’ (1748) act 5, sc. 5
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
‘The Gamester’ (1753) act 2, sc. 2.
1.161 George Moore 1852-1933
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
‘Impressions and Opinions’ (1891) ‘Balzac’
All reformers are bachelors.
‘The Bending of the Bough’ (1900) act 1
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
‘The Brook Kerith’ (1916) ch. 11
Art must be parochial in the beginning to become cosmopolitan in the end.
‘Hail and Farewell: Ave’ (1911) p. 3 (quoting himself)