The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

That poorly satisfy our eyes,
More by your number, than your light;
You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon shall rise?
‘On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia’
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to
build well. Well building hath three conditions. Commodity, Firmness, and Delight.
‘Elements of Architecture’ (1624) pt. 1
Take heed of thinking, The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.
In Izaak Walton ‘Sir Henry Wotton’, in Christopher Wordsworth ‘Ecclesiastical Biography’ (1810) vol. 5, p.
44; first published in Walton’s first edition of ‘Reliquiae Wottonianae’ (1651)
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Written in the album of Christopher Fleckmore in 1604. Izaak Walton ‘Life’
11.137 Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959
The necessities were going by default to save the luxuries until I hardly knew which were
necessities and which luxuries.
‘Autobiography’ (1945) bk. 2, p. 108
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines
—so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
‘New York Times’ 4 Oct. 1953, sec. 6, p. 47
11.138 Sir Thomas Wyatt c.1503-42
And wilt thou leave me thus?
Say nay, say nay, for shame.
‘An Appeal’
What should I say,
Since faith is dead,
And Truth away
From you is fled?
‘Farewell’
They flee from me, that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,
That now are wild, and do not remember
That sometime they put themselves in danger
To take bread at my hand.
‘Remembrance’
When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,
And she me caught in her arms long and small,