The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

And feblit with infirmitie:
Timor mortis conturbat me.
‘Lament for the Makaris’ (makaris makers, i.e. poets)
All love is lost but upon God alone.
‘The Merle and the Nightingale’ st. 2
4.108 Isadora Duncan 1878-1927
Adieu, mes amis. Je vais á la gloire.
Farewell, my friends. I go to glory.
Last words before her scarf caught in a car wheel, breaking her neck, in Mary Desti ‘Isadora Duncan’s
End’ (1929) ch. 25
4.109 Ian Dunlop
The shock of the new: seven historic exhibitions of modern art.
Title of book (1972)
4.110 John Dunning (Baron Ashburton) 1731-83
The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.
Resolution passed in the House of Commons, 6 April, 1780, in ‘Parliamentary History of England’ (T. C.
Hansard, 1814) vol. 21, col. 347
4.111 James Duport 1606-79
Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius.
Whom God would destroy He first sends mad.
‘Homeri Gnomologia’ (1660) p. 282.
4.112 Richard Duppa 1770-1831
In language, the ignorant have prescribed laws to the learned.
‘Maxims’ (1830) no. 252
4.113 Leo Durocher 1906-91
I called off his players’ names as they came marching up the steps behind him...All nice guys.
They’ll finish last. Nice guys. Finish last.
Casual remark at a practice ground in the presence of a number of journalists, July 1946: in ‘Nice Guys Finish
Last’ (as the remark generally is quoted, 1975) pt. 1, p. 14
4.114 Ian Dury 1942—
Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
Title of song (1977)
I could be the catalyst that sparks the revolution.
I could be an inmate in a long term institution