The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Cannot be wrong.
Lines found on his desk after he too committed suicide, 4 May 1737, in Colley Cibber ‘The Lives of the
Poets’ (1753) vol. 5 ‘The Life of Eustace Budgell’
2.238 Comte de Buffon (George-Louis Leclerc) 1707-88
Ces choses sont hors de l’homme, le style est l’homme même.
These things [subject matter] are external to the man; style is the man.
‘Discours sur le style’; address given to the Acadèmie Française, 25 August 1753
Le gènie n’est qu’une plus grande aptitude á la patience.
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
In Hèrault de Sèchelles ‘Voyage á Montbar’ (1803) p. 15
2.239 Arthur Buller 1874-1944
There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
‘Relativity’ in ‘Punch’ 19 December 1923
2.240 Ivor Bulmer-Thomas 1905—
If he ever went to school without any boots it was because he was too big for them.
Referring to Harold Wilson in a speech at the Conservative Party Conference, in ‘Manchester Guardian’ 13
October 1949
2.241 Count von Bülow 1849-1929
Mit einem Worte: wir wollen niemand in den Schatten stellen aber wir verlangen auch unseren
Platz an der Sonne.
In a word, we desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our
own place in the sun.
Reichstag, 6 December 1897
2.242 Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (first Baron Lytton) 1803-73
Here Stanley meets,—how Stanley scorns, the glance!
The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash,—the Rupert of Debate.
Referring to Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, in ‘The New Timon’ (1846) pt. 1, sect. 3, l. 202.
Out-babying Wordsworth and out-glittering Keats.
Referring to Tennyson, in ‘The New Timon’ (1846) pt. 2, sect. 1, l. 62
Beneath the rule of men entirely great