The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

In ‘Guardian’ 5 June 1963
11.58 Satish Kumar 1937—
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth.
Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust.
Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace.
Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.
‘Prayer for Peace’ (1981, adapted from the Upanishads)
11.59 Milan Kundera 1929—
The unbearable lightness of being.
Title of novel (1984)
11.60 Thomas Kyd 1558-94
What outcries pluck me from my naked bed?
‘The Spanish Tragedy’ (1592) act 2, sc. 5, l. 1
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears;
Oh life, no life, but lively form of death;
Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
‘The Spanish Tragedy’ (1592) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1
Thus must we toil in other men’s extremes,
That know not how to remedy our own.
‘The Spanish Tragedy’ (1592) act 3, sc. 6, l. 1
I am never better than when I am mad. Then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders.
But reason abuseth me, and there’s the torment, there’s the hell.
‘The Spanish Tragedy’ (1592) act 3, sc. 7, The Fourth Addition (1602 ed.) l. 164
My son—and what’s a son? A thing begot
Within a pair of minutes, thereabout,
A lump bred up in darkness.
‘The Spanish Tragedy’ (1592) act 3, sc. 11, The Third Addition (1602 ed.) l. 5
Duly twice a morning
Would I be sprinkling it with fountain water.
At last it grew, and grew, and bore, and bore,
Till at the length
It grew a gallows and did bear our son,
It bore thy fruit and mine: O wicked, wicked plant.
‘The Spanish Tragedy’ (1592) act 3, sc. 12, The Fourth Addition (1602 ed.) l. 66
For what’s a play without a woman in it?
‘The Spanish Tragedy’ (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. 97
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