The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Give me the avowed, erect and manly foe;
Firm I can meet, perhaps return the blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend.
‘New Morality’ (1821) l. 207
Pitt is to Addington
As London is to Paddington.
‘The Oracle’ (c.1803)
Man, only—rash, refined, presumptuous man,
Starts from his rank, and mars creation’s plan.
‘The Progress of Man’ (1799) l. 55
Whene’er with haggard eyes I view
This Dungeon, that I’m rotting in,
I think of those Companions true
Who studied with me at the U—
—NIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN,—
—NIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN.
‘Song’
Away with the cant of ‘Measures not men’!—the idle supposition that it is the harness and not
the horses that draw the chariot along. If the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be
taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.
House of Commons, 1801
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
Speech on the affairs of Portugal, in ‘Hansard’ 12 December 1826, col. 397
You well know how soon one of these stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in
perfect stillness, would upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, assume the likeness of an
animated thing, instinct with life and motion: how soon it would ruffle, as it were its swelling
plumage, how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered
elements of strength and waken its dormant thunder...Such is England herself; while apparently
passive and motionless, she silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adequate
occasion.
Speech at Plymouth, 12 December 1823, referring to the men of war lying at anchor in the harbour, in R. W.
Seton Watson ‘Britain in Europe 1789-1914’ (1945) p. 85
3.24 Hughie Cannon 1877-1912
Won’t you come home Bill Bailey, won’t you come home?
‘Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home’ (1902 song)
3.25 Truman Capote 1924-84
Other voices, other rooms.
Title of novel (1948)