The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

1.92 Lord Armstrong 1927—
It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
Referring to a letter during the ‘Spycatcher’ trial, Supreme Court, New South Wales, 18 November 1986, in
‘Daily Telegraph’ 19 November 1986. Edmund Burke ‘Two letters on Proposals for Peace’ (1796) pt. 1, p.
137, ‘Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues,
there is an economy of truth.’
1.93 Sir Edwin Arnold 1832-1904
Nor ever once ashamed
So we be named
Press-men; Slaves of the Lamp; Servants of Light.
‘The Tenth Muse’ (1895) st. 18
1.94 George Arnold 1834-65
The living need charity more than the dead.
‘The Jolly Old Pedagogue’
1.95 Matthew Arnold 1822-88
And we forget because we must
And not because we will.
‘Absence’
Only—but this is rare—
When a belovèd hand is laid in ours,
When, jaded with the rush and glare
Of the interminable hours,
Our eyes can in another’s eyes read clear,
When our world-deafened ear
Is by the tones of a loved voice caressed—
A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.
The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain,
And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
‘The Buried Life’ (1852) l. 77
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear