The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

For such despight they cast on female wits:
If what I doe prove well, it won’t advance,
They’ll say it’s stolne, or else, it was by chance.
‘The Prologue’ (1650)
Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are,
Men have precedency, and still excel.
‘The Prologue’ (1650)
This meane and unrefinéd stuffe of mine,
Will make your glistering gold but more to shine.
‘The Prologue’ (1650)
2.185 Ernest Bramah (Ernest Bramah Smith) 1868-1942
It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one’s time in looking for the sacred Emperor in
the low-class tea-shops.
‘The Wallet of Kai Lung’ (1900) p. 6
In his countenance this person read an expression of no-encouragement towards his venture.
‘The Wallet of Kai Lung’ (1900) p. 224
The whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable highmindedness.
‘The Wallet of Kai Lung’ (1900) p. 330
2.186 James Bramston c.1694-1744
What’s not destroyed by Time’s devouring hand?
Where’s Troy, and where’s the Maypole in the Strand?
‘The Art of Politics’ (1729) l. 71
2.187 Georges Braque 1882-1963
L’Art est fait pour troubler, la Science rassure.
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.
‘Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52’ p. 11
La vèritè existe; on n’invente que le mensonge.
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
‘Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52’ p. 20
2.188 Richard Brathwaite c.1588-1673
To Banbury came I, O profane one!
Where I saw a Puritane-one
Hanging of his cat on Monday
For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
‘Barnabee’s Journal’ (1638) pt. 1, st. 4