The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

The Middle of Next Week.
‘The one thing I regret,’ he said,
‘Is that it cannot speak!’
‘Sylvie and Bruno’ (1889) ch. 6
3.40 William Herbert Carruth 1859-1924
Some call it evolution,
And others call it God.
‘Each In His Own Tongue, and Other Poems’ (1908).
3.41 Edward Carson (Baron Carson) 1854-1935
My only great qualification for being put at the head of the Navy is that
I am very much at sea.
In Ian Colvin ‘Life of Lord Carson’ (1936) vol. 3, ch. 23
3.42 Henry Carter d. 1806
From distant climes, o’er widespread seas we come,
Though not with much èclat or beat of drum;
True patriots we; for be it understood,
We left our country for our country’s good.
No private views disgraced our generous zeal,
What urged our travels was our country’s weal;
And none will doubt but that our emigration
Has proved most useful to the British nation.
Prologue, written for, but not recited at, the opening of the Playhouse, Sydney, New South Wales, 16 January
1796, when the actors were principally convicts. A. W. Jose and H. J. Carter (eds.) ‘The Australian
Encyclopaedia’ (1927) p. 139. Previously attributed to George Barrington (b. 1755).
3.43 Sydney Carter 1915—
It’s God they ought to crucify
Instead of you and me,
I said to the carpenter
A-hanging on the tree.
‘Friday Morning’ (1967)
I danced in the morning
When the world was begun
And I danced in the moon
And the stars and the sun
And I came down from heaven
And I danced on the earth—
At Bethlehem I had my birth.