The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

There is no salvation outside the church.
‘De Baptismo contra Donatistas’ bk. 4, 100, 17, 24.
Audi partem alteram.
Hear the other side.
‘De Duabus Animabus contra Manicheos’ ch. 14
Dilige et quod vis fac.
Love and do what you will.
‘In Epistolam Joannis ad Parthos’ (413) tractatus 7, sect. 8 (often quoted as Ama et fac quod vis)
Multi quidem facilius se abstinent ut non utantur, quam temperent ut bene utantur.
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
‘On the Good of Marriage’ (401) ch. 21
Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum.
With love for mankind and hatred of sins.
‘Opera Omnia’ vol. 2, col. 962, letter 211 in J.-P. Migne (ed.) ‘Patrologiae Latinae’ (1845) vol. 33 (often
quoted in the form: ‘Love the sinner but hate the sin’)
Roma locuta est; causa finita est.
Rome has spoken; the case is concluded.
‘Sermons’ bk. 1
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
‘Sermons’ bk. 3 ‘De Ascensione’
1.118 Emperor Augustus 63 B.C.-A.D. 14
Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions.
In Suetonius ‘Lives of the Caesars’ ‘Divus Augustus’ sect. 23
I inherited it brick and left it marble.
In Suetonius ‘Lives of the Caesars’ ‘Divus Augustus’ sect. 28 (referring to the city of Rome)
It will be paid at the Greek Kalends.
In Suetonius ‘Lives of the Caesars’ ‘Divus Augustus’ sect. 87 (meaning never)
1.119 Jane Austen 1775-1817
Miss Bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public
favour; and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement for herself, or frighten those
who might hate her, into outward respect.
‘Emma’ (1816) ch. 3
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
‘Emma’ (1816) ch. 3 (Mr Woodhouse)
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
‘Emma’ (1816) ch. 9 (Emma)
It did not often happen...but it was too often for Emma’s charity, especially as there was all the