The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Restez-y
Et nous nous resterons sur la terre
Qui est quelquefois si jolie.
Our Father which art in heaven
Stay there
And we will stay on earth
Which is sometimes so pretty.
‘Pater Noster’
4.96 Richard Price 1723-91
Now, methinks, I see the ardour for liberty catching and spreading; a general amendment
beginning in human affairs; the dominion of kings changed for the dominion of laws, and the
dominion of priests giving way to the dominion of reason and conscience.
‘A Discourse on the Love of our Country’ (1790)
4.97 J. B. Priestley 1894-1984
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to
say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the
Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art.
‘Good Companions’ (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1
I can’t help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses.
First you take their faces from ’em by calling ’em the masses and then you accuse ’em of not
having any faces.
‘Saturn Over the Water’ ch. 2
This little steamer, like all her brave and battered sisters, is immortal. She’ll go sailing proudly
down the years in the epic of Dunkirk.
And our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out
of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an
excursion to hell and came back glorious.
Radio broadcast, 5 June 1940, in ‘Listener’ 13 June 1940
God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He doesn’t exist.
In ‘Listener’ 1 July 1965, p. 12
4.98 Joseph Priestley 1733-1804
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance,
will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
‘An Essay on the First Principles of Government’ (1768) pt. 1
4.99 Matthew Prior 1664-1721
I court others in verse: but I love thee in prose: