The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read
The Hunter’s waking thoughts.
‘The Dog beneath the Skin’ (1935) chorus following act 2, sc. 2
1.116 Èmile Augier 1820-89
Marquis: Mettez un canard sur un lac au milieu des cygnes, vous verrez qu’il regrettera sa
mare et finira par y retourner.
Montrichard: La nostalgie de la boue!
Marquis: Put a duck on a lake in the midst of some swans, and you’ll see he’ll miss his pond
and eventually return to it.
Montrichard: Longing to be back in the mud!
‘Le Mariage d’Olympe’ (1855) act 1, sc. 1
1.117 St Augustine of Hippo A.D. 354-430
Nondum amabam, et amare amabam...quaerebam quid amarem, amans amare.
I loved not yet, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
‘Confessions’ (397-8) bk. 3, ch. 1
Et illa erant fercula, in quibus mihi esurienti te inferebatur sol et luna.
And these were the dishes wherein to me, hunger-starven for thee, they served up the sun and
moon.
‘Confessions’ (397-8) bk. 3, ch.6
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo.
Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!
‘Confessions’ (397-8) bk. 8, ch. 7
Tolle lege, tolle lege.
Take up and read, take up and read.
‘Confessions’ (397-8) bk. 8, ch.12
Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi! et ecce intus eras et ego
foris, et ibi te quaerebam.
Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty both so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to
love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee.
‘Confessions’ (397-8) bk. 10, ch. 27
Continentiam iubes; da quod iubes et iube quod vis.
You command continence; give what you command, and command what you will.
‘Confessions’ (397-8) bk. 10, ch. 29
Securus iudicat orbis terrarum.
The world judges with certainty.
‘Contra Epistolam Parmeniani’ (400) bk. 3, sect. 24
Salus extra ecclesiam non est.