The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Letter to Revd John Tucker, 2 March 1828, on appointment to the Headmastership of Rugby School, in
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley ‘The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold’ (1844) vol. 1, ch. 2
What we must look for here is, 1st, religious and moral principles: 2ndly, gentlemanly conduct:
3rdly, intellectual ability.
Address to the Praeposters of Rugby School, in Arthur Penrhyn Stanley ‘The Life and Correspondence of
Thomas Arnold’ (1844) vol. 1, ch. 3
As for rioting, the old Roman way of dealing with that is always the right one; flog the rank
and file, and fling the ringleaders from the Tarpeian rock.
From an unpublished letter written before 1828, quoted by Matthew Arnold in ‘Cornhill Magazine’ August
1868 ‘Anarchy and Authority’
1.98 Raymond Aron 1905—
La pensèe politique, en France, est rètrospective ou utopique.
Political thought, in France, is retrospective or utopian.
‘L’opium des intellectuels’ (1955) ch. 1
1.99 Antonin Artaud 1896-1948
Il faut nous laver de la littérature. Nous voulons être hommes avant tout,
être humains.
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men first of all; to be human.
‘Les Oeuvres et les Hommes’ unpublished MS, 17 May 1922
1.100 George Asaf 1880-1951
What’s the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
‘Pack up your Troubles’ (1915 song)
1.101 Roger Ascham 1515-68
I said...how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to
attain good learning.
‘The Schoolmaster’ (1570) preface
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
‘The Schoolmaster’ (1570) bk. 1
Inglese Italianato, é un diavolo incarnato, that is to say, you remain men in shape and fashion,
but become devils in life and condition.
‘The Schoolmaster’ (1570) bk. 1 (referring to Englishmen travelling in Italy)
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the
common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the
judgment of wise men allow him.