The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

The original is unfaithful to the translation.
On Henley’s translation, in ‘Sobre el ‘Vathek’de William Beckford’; ‘Obras Completas’ (1974) p. 730
Para uno de esos gnósticos, el visible universo era una ilusión ó (mas precisamente) un
sofisma. Los espejos y la paternidad son abominables porque lo multiplican y lo divulgan.
For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism.
Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius’ (1941) in ‘Obras Completas’ (1974) p. 431
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
In ‘Time’ 14 February 1983
2.157 Cesare Borgia 1476-1507
Aut Caesar, aut nihil.
Caesar or nothing.
Motto inscribed on his sword. John Leslie Garner ‘Caesar Borgia’ (1912) p. 309
2.158 George Borrow 1803-81
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British
Islands.
‘Lavengro’ (1851) preface
There’s night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet
things: there’s likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
‘Lavengro’ (1851) ch. 25
Let no one sneer at the bruisers of England—what were the gladiators of Rome, or the bullfighters
of Spain, in its palmiest days, compared to England’s bruisers?
‘Lavengro’ (1851) ch. 26
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
‘Lavengro’ (1851) ch. 30.
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
‘Lavengro’ (1851) ch. 92
Fear God, and take your own part.
‘The Romany Rye’ (1857) ch. 16
2.159 Marèchal Pierre Bosquet 1810-61
C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre.
It is magnificent, but it is not war.
On the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, 25 October 1854
2.160 John Collins Bossidy 1860-1928
And this is good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,