The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

1.37 Mary Alcock c.1742-98
A masquerade, a murdered peer,
His throat just cut from ear to ear—
A rake turned hermit—a fond maid
Run mad, by some false loon betrayed—
These stores supply the female pen,
Which writes them o’er and o’er again,
And readers likewise may be found
To circulate them round and round.
‘A Receipt for Writing a Novel’ l. 65
1.38 Alcuin c.735-804
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper
insaniae proxima sit.
And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice
of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
Letter 164 in ‘Works’ (1863) vol. 1, p. 438
1.39 Richard Aldington 1892-1962
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on
its own dunghill.
‘The Colonel’s Daughter’ (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6
1.40 Brian Aldiss 1925—
Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs.
‘Barefoot in the Head’ (1969)’Charteris’ ad fin.
1.41 Henry Aldrich 1647-1710
If all be true that I do think,
There are five reasons we should drink;
Good wine—a friend—or being dry—
Or lest we should be by and by—
Or any other reason why.
‘Reasons for Drinking’
1.42 Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836-1907
The fair, frail palaces,
The fading alps and archipelagoes,
And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.