You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you cannot master it, you inevitably get into war. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We’ve had to look it square in the face—on the question of enlarging the Korean war, on the question of getting into the Indochina war, on the question of Formosa. We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.
In ‘Life’ 16 January 1956
If...the European Defence Community should not become effective; if France and Germany remain apart...That would compel an agonizing reappraisal of basic United States policy.
Speech to NATO Council in Paris, 14 December 1953, in ‘New York Times’ 15 December 1953, p. 14
4.103 Alexandre Dumas 1802-70
Cherchons la femme.
Let us look for the woman.
‘Les Mohicans de Paris’ (1854-5) passim; in the form Cherchez la femme attributed to Joseph Fouchè (17631820)
Tous pour un, un pour tous.
All for one, one for all.
‘Les Trois Mousquetaires’ (1844) ch. 9.
4.104 Dame Daphne Du Maurier 1907-89
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
‘Rebecca’ (1938) ch. 1, opening words
4.105 Charles François du Pèrier Dumouriez 1739-1823
Les courtisans qui l’entourent n’ont rien oubliè et n’ont rien appris.
The courtiers who surround him have forgotten nothing and learnt nothing.
Of Louis XVIII, at the time of the Declaration of Verona, September 1795, in ‘Examen impartial d’un Ècrit intitulè Dèclaration de Louis XVII’ (1795) p. 40; these words were later used by Napoleon in his Declaration to the French on his return from Elba
4.106 Paul Lawrence Dunbar 1872-1906
I know why the caged bird sings!
‘Sympathy’ st. 3 (and title of autobiographical novel by Maya Angelou, 1969).
4.107 William Dunbar c.1465-c.1513
I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes
And feblit with infirmitie: Timor mortis conturbat me.
‘Lament for the Makaris’ (makaris makers, i.e. poets)
All love is lost but upon God alone.
‘The Merle and the Nightingale’ st. 2
4.108 Isadora Duncan 1878-1927
Adieu, mes amis. Je vais á la gloire.
Farewell, my friends. I go to glory.
Last words before her scarf caught in a car wheel, breaking her neck, in Mary Desti ‘Isadora Duncan’s End’ (1929) ch. 25
4.109 Ian Dunlop
The shock of the new: seven historic exhibitions of modern art.
Title of book (1972)
4.110 John Dunning (Baron Ashburton) 1731-83
The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.
Resolution passed in the House of Commons, 6 April, 1780, in ‘Parliamentary History of England’ (T. C. Hansard, 1814) vol. 21, col. 347
4.111 James Duport 1606-79
Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius.
Whom God would destroy He first sends mad.
‘Homeri Gnomologia’ (1660) p. 282.
4.112 Richard Duppa 1770-1831
In language, the ignorant have prescribed laws to the learned.
‘Maxims’ (1830) no. 252
4.113 Leo Durocher 1906-91
I called off his players’ names as they came marching up the steps behind him...All nice guys. They’ll finish last. Nice guys. Finish last.
Casual remark at a practice ground in the presence of a number of journalists, July 1946: in ‘Nice Guys Finish Last’ (as the remark generally is quoted, 1975) pt. 1, p. 14
4.114 Ian Dury 1942—
Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
Title of song (1977)
I could be the catalyst that sparks the revolution. I could be an inmate in a long term institution
I could lean to wild extremes I could do or die,
I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch them gallop by, What a waste, what a waste, what a waste, what a waste.
‘What a Waste’ (1978 song)
4.115 Sir Edward Dyer d. 1607
My mind to me a kingdom is. Such perfect joy therein I find That it excels all other bliss
That world affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
‘In praise of a contented mind’ (1588); attributed
Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more.
They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.
They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; They lack, I leave; they pine, I live.
‘In praise of a contented mind’ (1588); attributed
4.116 John Dyer 1699-1757
The care of sheep, the labors of the loom, And arts of trade, I sing.
‘The Fleece’ (1757) bk. 1, l. 1
The younger hands
Ply at the easy work of winding yarn
On swiftly-circling engines, and their notes Warble together as a choir of larks:
Such joy arises in the mind employed.
‘The Fleece’ (1757) bk. 3, l. 281
Industry
Which dignifies the artist, lifts the swain, And the straw cottage to a palace turns.
‘The Fleece’ (1757) bk. 3, l. 332
While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary, mouldered walls.
‘Grongar Hill’ (1726) l. 82
But transient is the smile of fate: A little rule, a little sway,
A sunbeam in a winter’s day, Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.
‘Grongar Hill’ (1726) l. 88
The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm,
As pearls upon an Ethiop’s arm.
‘Grongar Hill’ (1726) l. 111
The pilgrim oft
At dead of night, mid his orison hears Aghast the voice of Time, disparting tow’rs.
‘The Ruins of Rome’ (1740) l. 38
4.117 John Dyer fl. 1714
And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.
‘Down among the Dead Men’ (c.1700)
4.118 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) 1941—
‘No reason to get excited,’ the thief, he kindly spoke,
‘There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we’ve been thro’ that, and this is not our fate, So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late’
‘All Along the Watchtower’ (1968 song)
I ain’t lookin’ to block you up, Shock or knock or lock you up, Analyze you, categorize you, Finalize you or advertise you.
‘All I Really Want To Do’ (1964 song)
How many roads must a man walk down Before you can call him a man?
‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ (1962 song)
How many years can a mountain exist Before it’s washed to the sea?
Yes, `n’ how many years can some people exist Before they’re allowed to be free?
Yes, `n’ how many times can a man turn his head, Pretending he just doesn’t see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ (1962 song)
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder...
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
‘Chimes of Freedom’ (1964 song)
Praise be to Nero’s Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody’s shouting ‘Which Side Are You On?’
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain’s tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.
‘Desolation Row’ (1965 song)
I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don’t mind You just kinda wasted my precious time But don’t think twice, it’s all right.
‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right’ (1963 song)
The motorcycle black madonna Two-wheeled gypsy queen.
‘Gates of Eden’ (1965 song)
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords, in the hands of young children, And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
And it’s a hard rain’s a gonna fall.
‘A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall’ (1963 song)
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart.
‘Idiot Wind’ (1974 song)
Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
‘It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)’ (1965 song)
My love she speaks softly,
She knows there’s no success like failure And that failure’s no success at all.
‘Love Minus Zero / No Limit’ (1965 song)
Hey! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me. I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to.
‘Mr Tambourine Man’ (1965 song)
Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
‘Mr Tambourine Man’ (1964 song)
‘Equality,’ I spoke the word As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
‘My Back Pages’ (1964 song)
Sara, Sara
Scorpio Sphinx in a calico dress.
‘Sara (1975 song)
Señor, señor, do you know where we’re headin’? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?
‘Señor (Tale of Yankee Power)’ (1978 song)
Now the preacher looked so baffled When I asked why he dressed With twenty pounds of headlines Stapled to his chest.
‘Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again’ (1966 song)
Don’t follow leaders Watch the parkin’ meters.
‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ (1965 song)
Come mothers and fathers, Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand. Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is
Rapidly agin’
Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’!
‘The Times They Are A-Changing’ (1964 song)
But I can’t think for you You’ll have to decide, Whether Judas Iscariot Had God on his side.
‘With God on our Side’ (1963 song)
5.0E
5.1Abba Eban 1915—
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Speech in London, 16 December 1970, in ‘The Times’ 17 December 1970
5.2 Sir Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) 1897-1977
We are in an armed conflict; that is the phrase I have used. There has been no declaration of war.
‘Hansard’ 1 November 1956, col. 1641
5.3 Marriott Edgar 1880-1951
There’s a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That’s noted for fresh air and fun,
And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son.
A grand little lad was young Albert,
All dressed in his best; quite a swell
With a stick with an ’orse’s ’ead ’andle,
The finest that Woolworth’s could sell.
The Magistrate gave his opinion
That no one was really to blame
And he said that he hoped the Ramsbottoms
Would have further sons to their name.
At that Mother got proper blazing, ‘And thank you, sir, kindly,’ said she.
‘What, waste all our lives raising children
To feed ruddy Lions? Not me!’
‘The Lion and Albert’ (1932)
5.4 Maria Edgeworth 1768-1849
Well! some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
‘The Absentee’ (1812) ch. 2
To be sure a love match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
‘Castle Rackrent’ (1800) ‘Continuation of Memoirs’
Come when you’re called; And do as you’re bid; Shut the door after you;
And you’ll never be chid.
‘The Contrast’ (1804) ch. 1
Business was his aversion; pleasure was his business.
‘The Contrast’ (1804) ch. 2
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be “soon moved with the slightest touch of blame”; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them in all the maxims, of self-justification.
‘An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification’ (1787)
What a misfortune it is to be born a woman!...Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show us the new limits, the Gothic structure, the impenetrable barriers of our prison.
‘Leonora’ (1806) Letter 1
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains, with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
‘Letters of Julia and Caroline’ (1787) Letter 1
5.5 Duke of Edinburgh 1921—
See Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (4.54) in Volume II
5.6 Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
In ‘Harper’s Monthly Magazine’ September 1932 (having been said c.1903).
5.7 James Edmeston 1791-1867
Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O’er the world’s tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.
‘Sacred Lyrics’ (1821) ‘Lead Us, Heavenly Father’
5.8 John Maxwell Edmonds 1875-1958
When you go home, tell them of us and say, ‘For your tomorrows these gave their today.’
‘Inscriptions Suggested for War Memorials’ (1919)
5.9 King Edward III 1312-77
Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I woll this journey be his, and the honoure therof.
Speaking of the Black Prince at Crècy, 1345 (commonly quoted as ‘Let the boy win his spurs’) in ‘The
Chronicle of Froissart’ translated by Sir John Bourchier Lord Berners (1523-5) ch. 130
5.10 King Edward VII 1841-1910
I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.
To Sir Frederick Ponsonby, who had proposed to accompany him in a tail-coat, in Sir Philip Magnus ‘Edward VII’ (1964) ch. 19
5.11 King Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) 1894-1972
These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.
Speaking at the derelict Dowlais Iron and Steel Works, 18 November 1936, in ‘Western Mail’ 19 November 1936 (generally quoted ‘Something must be done’)
At long last I am able to say a few words of my own...you must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in ‘The Times’ 12 December 1936
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
‘Look’ 5 March 1957
5.12 Richard Edwardes c.1523-66
In going to my naked bed, as one that would have slept,
I heard a wife sing to her child, that long before had wept. She sighed sore, and sang full sweet, to bring the babe to rest, That would not cease, but cried still in sucking at her breast. She was full weary of her watch and grieved with her child, She rocked it, and rated it, till that on her it smiled.
Then did she say, ‘Now have I found this proverb true to prove: The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.’
‘The Paradise of dainty devices’ (1576) ‘Amantium Irae’
5.13 Jonathan Edwards 1629-1712
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbours as any others.
‘Procrastination’
5.14 Jonathan Edwards 1703-58
Of all Insects no one is more wonderful than the spider especially with Respect to their sagacity and admirable way of working...I...once saw a very large spider to my surprise swimming in the air...and others have assured me that they often have seen spiders fly, the appearance is truly very pretty and pleasing.
‘The Flying Spider—Observations by Jonathan Edwards when a boy’ ‘Of Insects’ (written in his early youth) in ‘Andover Review’ vol. 13 (1890) p. 5
5.15 Oliver Edwards 1711-91
I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.
In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1934 ed.) 17 April 1778
For my part now, I consider supper as a turnpike through which one must pass, in order to get to bed.
In James Boswell ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ (1934 ed.) 17 April 1778. Boswell notes: ‘I am not absolutely sure but this was my own suggestion, though it is truly in the character of Edwards’
5.16 Sarah Egerton 1670-1723
From the first dawn of life unto the grave, Poor womankind’s in every state a slave.
‘The Emulation’ (1703)
We will our rights in learning’s world maintain; Wit’s empire now shall know a female reign.
‘The Emulation’ (1703)
5.17 John Ehrlichman 1925—
I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.
Speaking of Patrick Gray (regarding his nomination as director of the FBI) in a telephone conversation with John Dean: ‘Washington Post’ 27 July 1973, p. A27
5.18 Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Remark made at Princeton University, c.9 May 1921, in R. W. Clark ‘Einstein’ (1973) ch. 14
Jedenfalls bin ich überzeugt, dass der nicht würfelt.
At any rate, I am convinced that He does not play dice.
Referring to God in a letter to Max Born, 4 December 1926: ‘Einstein und Born Briefwechsel’ (1969) p. 130 (often quoted as Gott würfelt nicht God does not play dice)
If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, possibly early December 1929, in ‘New York Times’ 16 February 1930
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Telegram sent to prominent Americans, 24 May 1946, in ‘New York Times’ 25 May 1946
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping
