The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Parents—especially step-parents—are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children.
They don’t fufil the promise of their early years.
‘A Buyer’s Market’ (1952) ch. 2
A dance to the music of time.
Title of novel sequence (1951-75), after ‘Le 4 stagioni che ballano al suono del tempo’, the title given by
Giovanni Pietro Bellori to a painting by Nicolas Poussin.
He’s so wet you could shoot snipe off him.
‘A Question of Upbringing’ (1951) ch. 1
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
‘Temporary Kings’ (1973) ch. 1
4.88 Enoch Powell 1912—
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Speech to Conservative Party Conference, 19 October 1967, in ‘The Times’ 20 October 1967
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber
foaming with much blood’.
Speech at Annual Meeting of West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre, Birmingham, 20 April 1968,
in ‘Observer’ 21 April 1968
4.89 Sir John Powell 1645-1713
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Lord Raymond Reports, p. 911
4.90 John O’Connor Power
The mules of politics: without pride of ancestry, or hope of posterity.
In H. H. Asquith ‘Memories and Reflections’ (1928) vol. 1, ch. 16 (referring to the Liberal Unionists)
4.91 Winthrop Mackworth Praed 1802-39
Of science and logic he chatters
As fine and as fast as he can;
Though I am no judge of such matters,
I’m sure he’s a talented man.
‘The Talented Man’
4.92 Elvis Presley 1935-77
Love me tender, love me true,
All my dreams fulfill.
‘Love Me Tender’ (1956 song; with Vera Matson)
4.93 The Book of Common Prayer 1662
It hath been the wisdom of the Church of England, ever since the first compiling of her Publick