The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

4.102 John Foster Dulles 1888-1959
You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we
were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to
get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you cannot master it, you
inevitably get into war. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are
lost. We’ve had to look it square in the face—on the question of enlarging the Korean war, on the
question of getting into the Indochina war, on the question of Formosa. We walked to the brink
and we looked it in the face.
In ‘Life’ 16 January 1956
If...the European Defence Community should not become effective; if France and Germany
remain apart...That would compel an agonizing reappraisal of basic United States policy.
Speech to NATO Council in Paris, 14 December 1953, in ‘New York Times’ 15 December 1953, p. 14
4.103 Alexandre Dumas 1802-70
Cherchons la femme.
Let us look for the woman.
‘Les Mohicans de Paris’ (1854-5) passim; in the form Cherchez la femme attributed to Joseph Fouchè (1763-
1820)
Tous pour un, un pour tous.
All for one, one for all.
‘Les Trois Mousquetaires’ (1844) ch. 9.
4.104 Dame Daphne Du Maurier 1907-89
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
‘Rebecca’ (1938) ch. 1, opening words
4.105 Charles François du Pèrier Dumouriez 1739-1823
Les courtisans qui l’entourent n’ont rien oubliè et n’ont rien appris.
The courtiers who surround him have forgotten nothing and learnt nothing.
Of Louis XVIII, at the time of the Declaration of Verona, September 1795, in ‘Examen impartial d’un Ècrit
intitulè Dèclaration de Louis XVII’ (1795) p. 40; these words were later used by Napoleon in his Declaration
to the French on his return from Elba
4.106 Paul Lawrence Dunbar 1872-1906
I know why the caged bird sings!
‘Sympathy’ st. 3 (and title of autobiographical novel by Maya Angelou, 1969).
4.107 William Dunbar c.1465-c.1513
I that in heill wes and gladnes
Am trublit now with gret seiknes