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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘<strong>The</strong> True-Born Englishman’ (1701) pt. 1, l. 139<br />

His lazy, long, lascivious reign.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> True-Born Englishman’ (1701) pt. 1, l. 236 (<strong>of</strong> Charles II)<br />

Great families <strong>of</strong> yesterday we show,<br />

And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> True-Born Englishman’ (1701) pt. 1, l. 374<br />

And <strong>of</strong> all plagues with which mankind are curst,<br />

Ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> True-Born Englishman’ (1701) pt. 2, l. 299<br />

When kings the sword <strong>of</strong> justice first lay down,<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are no kings, though they possess the crown.<br />

Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,<br />

<strong>The</strong> good <strong>of</strong> subjects is the end <strong>of</strong> kings.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> True-Born Englishman’ (1701) pt. 2, l. 313<br />

4.27 Edgar Degas 1834-1917<br />

L’art, c’est le vice. On ne l’èpouse pas lègitimement, on le viole.<br />

Art is vice. You don’t marry it legitimately, you rape it.<br />

In Paul Lafond ‘Degas’ (1918) p. 140<br />

4.28 Charles De Gaulle 1890-1970<br />

La France a perdu une bataille! Mais la France n’a pas perdu la guerre!<br />

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!<br />

Proclamation, 18 June 1940, in ‘Discours, messages et dèclarations du Gènèral de Gaulle’ (1941) p. 15<br />

Les traitès, voyez-vous, sont comme les jeunes filles et comme les roses:<br />

ça dure ce que ça dure.<br />

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.<br />

Speech at Elysèe Palace, 2 July 1963, in Andrè Passeron ‘De Gaulle parle 1962-6’ (1966) p. 340<br />

Vive Le Quèbec Libre.<br />

Long Live Free Quebec.<br />

Speech in Montreal, 24 July 1967, in ‘Discours et messages’ (1970) p. 192<br />

Politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.<br />

Replying to Clement Attlee’s remark that ‘De Gaulle is a very good soldier and a very bad politician’, in<br />

Attlee ‘A Prime Minister Remembers’ (1961) ch. 4<br />

Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variètès de fromage?<br />

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties <strong>of</strong> cheese?<br />

In Ernest Mignon ‘Les Mots du Gènèral’ (1962) p. 57<br />

Comme un homme politique ne croit jamais ce qu’il dit, il est tout ètonnè quand il est cru sur<br />

parole.

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