The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows.
‘Sonnets-Actualities’ no. 8 (1925)
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
‘Sonnets-Realities’ no. 1 (1923)
3.214 William Thomas Cummings 1903-45
There are no atheists in the foxholes.
In Carlos P. Romulo ‘I Saw the Fall of the Philippines’ (1943) ch. 15
3.215 Allan Cunningham 1784-1842
A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast
And fills the white and rustling sail
And bends the gallant mast.
‘A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea’
It’s hame and it’s hame, hame fain wad I be,
O, hame, hame, hame to my ain countree!
‘It’s hame and It’s hame’, in James Hogg ‘Jacobite Relics of Scotland’ (1819) vol. 1, p. 134. In his notes, vol.
1, p. 294, he says he took it from R. H. Cromek’s Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song (1810) and
supposes that it owed much to Cunningham
3.216 John Philpot Curran 1750-1817
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition
if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
Speech on the Right of Election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, 10 July 1790
3.217 Michael Curtiz 1888-1962
Bring on the empty horses!
Said while directing the 1936 film ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, in David Niven ‘Bring on the Empty
Horses’ (1975) ch. 6
3.218 Lord Curzon (George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) 1859-1925
Gentlemen do not take soup at luncheon.
In E. L. Woodward ‘Short Journey’ (1942) ch. 7
3.219 St Cyprian (Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus) c.AD 200-58
Habere non potest Deum patrem qui ecclesiam non habet matrem.
He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.
‘De Cath. Eccl. Unitate’ 6.