quotes

I recently got a free copy of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (think Bartlett's, but British...unless Bartlett's IS British? In that case, think Bartlett's but more Oxbridge). Even better, the cover is the Waterhouse painting of Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott." To celebrate, a few choice quotes (after starting, I decided on a French theme):

Robert, Marquis de Flers and Arman de Caillavet: "Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them."

John Paul Sarte: "Elle ne croyait a rien; seul, son scepticisme l'empechait d'etre athee." She believed in nothing; only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Arnauld-Amaury: "Kill them all; God will recognize his own." French abbbot, after being asked how the true Catholics could be distinguished from the heretics at the massacre of Beziers in 1209.

Harriet Martineau: "The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so." (1837)

Moliere: "Ah, la belle chose que de savoir quelque chose." Ah, it is a lovely thing, to know a thing or two.