The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.
In ‘Observer’ 28 August 1955
1.74 Thomas Gold Appleton 1812-84
A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.
Attributed
Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.
In Oliver Wendell Holmes ‘The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table’ (1858) ch. 6
1.75 The Arabian Nights Entertainments, or the Thousand and one Nights
Who will change old lamps for new ones?...new lamps for old ones?
‘The History of Aladdin’
Open Sesame!
‘The History of Ali Baba’
1.76 William Arabin 1773-1841
If ever there was a case of clearer evidence than this of persons acting in concert together, this
case is that case.
In Sir R. Megarry ‘Arabinesque at Law’ (1969)
They will steal the very teeth out of your mouth as you walk through the streets. I know it from
experience.
Referring to the citizens of Uxbridge, in Sir R. Megarry ‘Arabinesque at Law’ (1969)
Prisoner, God has given you good abilities, instead of which you go about the country stealing
ducks.
‘Notes and Queries’ vol. 170, p. 310
1.77 Louis Aragon 1897-1982
O mois des floraisons mois des mètamorphoses
Mai qui fut sans nuage et Juin poignardè mètamorphoses
Je n’oublierai jamais les lilas ni les roses mètamorphoses
Ni ceux que le printemps dans ses plis a gardè.
O month of flowerings, month of metamorphoses, mètamorphoses
May without cloud and June that was stabbed, mètamorphoses
I shall never forget the lilac and the roses mètamorphoses
Nor those whom spring has kept in its folds.
‘Les lilas et les roses’ (1940)
1.78 John Arbuthnot 1667-1735
He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
‘The Art of Political Lying’ (1712) p. 19