The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

House of Commons, 7 May 1877
The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
Speech on the state of Ireland, at Leeds, 7 October 1881, in Henry W. Lucy (ed.) ‘Speeches of the Right Hon.
W. E. Gladstone’ (1885) p. 57
It is perfectly true that these gentlemen wish to march through rapine to disintegration and
dismemberment of the Empire, and, I am sorry to say, even to the placing of different parts of the
Empire in direct hostility one with the other.
Referring to the Irish Land League in a speech at Knowsley, 27 October 1881, in ‘The Times’, 28 October
1881
I would tell them of my own intention to keep my own counsel...and I will venture to
recommend them, as an old Parliamentary hand, to do the same.
House of Commons, 21 January 1886
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
Speech at Liverpool, 28 June 1886, in ‘The Times’ 29 June, 1886
This is the negation of God erected into a system of Government.
‘A Letter to the Earl of Aberdeen on the State Prosecutions of the Neapolitan Government’ (1851) p. 9n.
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment
and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
In Margot Asquith ‘More Memories’ (1933) ch. 8
It is not a life at all. It is a Reticence, in three volumes.
On J. W. Cross’s ‘Life of George Eliot’ in E. F. Benson ‘As We Were’ (1930) ch. 6
I absorb the vapour and return it as a flood.
In Lord Riddell ‘Some Things That Matter’ (1927 ed.) p. 69 (on public speaking)
7.51 Hannah Glasse fl. 1747
Take your hare when it is cased...
‘The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy’ (1747) ch. 1 (Cased skinned), the proverbial ‘First catch your
hare’, recorded since c.1300, has frequently been misattributed to Hannah Glasse
7.52 Duke of Gloucester 1743-1805
Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr Gibbon?
In Henry Best ‘Personal and Literary Memorials’ (1829) p. 68; also attributed to the Duke of Cumberland and
King George III; see D. M. Low ‘Edward Gibbon’ (1937) p. 315
7.53 Jean-Luc Godard 1930—
La photographie, c’est la vèritè. Le cinèma: la vèritè vingt-quatre fois par seconde.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.
‘Le Petit Soldat’ (1960 film)
‘Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end,’ harrumphed French film maker Georges
Franju...’Certainly,’ replied Jean-Luc Godard. ‘But not necessarily in that order.’
‘Time’ 14 September 1981