The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Where Peter is, there must be the Church.
‘Explanatio psalmi 40’ in ‘Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum’ (1919) vol. 64, p. 250
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but here [Milan] I do not. Do you also follow the
custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
In St Augustine ‘Letter 54 to Januarius’ (c.400 A.D.) in ‘St Augustine. Letters’ vol. 1 (translated by Sister W.
Parsons, 1951) p. 253.
1.59 Leo Amery 1873-1955
For twenty years he has held a season-ticket on the line of least resistance and has gone
wherever the train of events has carried him, lucidly justifying his position at whatever point he
has happened to find himself.
Referring to Herbert Asquith (q.v.) in ‘Quarterly Review’ July 1914, p. 276
Speak for England.
Said to Arthur Greenwood in House of Commons, 2 September 1939, in ‘My Political Life’ (1955) vol. 3, p.
324
1.60 Fisher Ames 1758-1808
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to
the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft which would never sink, but then your feet are always in the
water.
Attributed to Ames, speaking in the House of Representatives, 1795; quoted by R. W. Emerson in
‘Essays’ (2nd series, 1844) no. 7, but not traced in Ames’s speeches
1.61 Sir Kingsley Amis 1922—
The delusion that there are thousands of young people about who are capable of benefiting
from university training, but have somehow failed to find their way there, is...a necessary
component of the expansionist case....More will mean worse.
‘Encounter’ July 1960
Dixon...tried to flail his features into some sort of response to humour. Mentally, however, he
was making a different face and promising himself he’d make it actually when next alone. He’d
draw his lower lip in under his top teeth and by degrees retract his chin as far as possible, all this
while dilating his eyes and nostrils. By these means he would, he was confident, cause a deep
dangerous flush to suffuse his face.
‘Lucky Jim’ (1953) ch. 1
Alun’s life was coming to consist more and more exclusively of being told at dictation speed
what he knew.
‘The Old Devils’ (1986) ch. 7
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
‘One Fat Englishman’ (1963) ch. 3.
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
‘One Fat Englishman’ (1963) ch. 8