The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

6.71 Mme Roland 1754-93
O libertè! O libertè! que de crimes on commet en ton nom!
O liberty! O liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name!
In Alphonse de Lamartine ‘Histoire des Girondins’ (1847) bk. 51, ch. 8
The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.
Attributed
6.72 Frederick William Rolfe (‘Baron Corvo’) 1860-1913
‘There is no Holiness here,’ George interrupted, in that cold, white, candent voice which was
more caustic than silver nitrate and more thrilling than a scream.
‘Hadrian VII’ (1904) ch. 21
Pray for the repose of His soul. He was so tired.
‘Hadrian VII’ (1904) ch. 24
6.73 Richard Rolle de Hampole c.1290-1349
When Adam dalfe and Eve spane
So spire it thou may spede,
Where was than the pride of man
That now merres his mede?
In G. G. Perry ‘Religious Pieces’ (Early English Text Society, vol. 88); an altered form was taken by John
Ball (d. 1381): ‘When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?’. J. R. Green ‘A Short
History of the English People’
6.74 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
See Pope John XXIII (10.29) in Volume I
6.75 Pierre de Ronsard 1524-85
Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
Qui ce matin avait dèclose
Sa robe de pourpre au soleil
A point perdu cette versprèe
Les plis de sa robe pourprèe,
Et son teint au vôtre pareil.
Darling, let us go to see if the rose, which this morning had spread her purple robe to the sun,
has not this evening lost the folds of her purple robe and her colour, that is like yours.
‘Odes, á Cassandre’ no. 17
Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, á la chandelle,
Assise auprés du feu, dèvidant et filant,
Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous èmerveillant,
Ronsard me cèlèbrait du temps que j’ètais belle.