The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Well, we knocked the bastard off!
On climbing Mount Everest, in ‘Nothing Venture, Nothing Win’ (1975) ch. 10.
8.99 Fred Hillebrand 1893—
Home James, and don’t spare the horses.
Title of song (1934)
8.100 Hillel ‘The Elder’ c.70 B.C.-c. A.D. 10
A name made great is a name destroyed.
‘Pirque Aboth’ ch. 1, no. 14, in C. Taylor (ed.) ‘Sayings of the Jewish Fathers’ (1877)
If I am not for myself who is for me; and being for my own self what am I? If not now when?
‘Pirque Aboth’ ch. 1, no. 15, in C. Taylor (ed.) ‘Sayings of the Jewish Fathers’ (1877)
8.101 Lady Hillingdon 1857-1940
I am happy now that Charles calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I
now endure but two calls a week and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed,
close my eyes, open my legs and think of England.
‘Journal’ 1912, in J. Gathorne-Hardy ‘Rise and Fall of the British Nanny’ (1972) ch. 3
8.102 James Hilton 1900-54
Nothing really wrong with him—only anno domini, but that’s the most fatal complaint of all,
in the end.
‘Goodbye, Mr Chips’ (1934) ch. 1
8.103 Hippocleides 6th century B.C.
Hippocleides doesn’t care.
In Herodotus ‘Histories’ bk. 6, sect. 129
8.104 Hippocrates c.460-357 B.C.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
‘Aphorisms’ sect. 1, para. 1 (translation by Chaucer). Often quoted in Latin as Ars longa, vita brevis; see
Seneca ‘De Brevitae Vitae’ sect. 1.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
‘Precepts’ ch. 1 (translated by W. H. S. Jones)
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
‘Precepts’ ch. 1 (translated by W. H. S. Jones)
8.105 Alfred Hitchcock 1899-1980
Television has brought back murder into the home—where it belongs.
In ‘Observer’ 19 December 1965