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Greene, Robert
c.
1560–92
1
Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing,
As sweet unto a shepherd as a king.

"The Shepherd's Wife's Song" (1590)

2
For there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute
Johannes fac totum
, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.

Groatsworth of Wit Bought with a Million of Repentance
(1592).

Greer, Germaine
1939–
1
The female eunuch.

title of book (1970)

2
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

The Female Eunuch
(1970)

Gregory, Pope
the Great
ad
c.
540–604
1
Non Angli sed Angeli.Not Angles but Angels.
on seeing English slaves in Rome

oral tradition, based on "
Responsum est, quod Angli vocarentur. At ille: "Bene," inquit; "nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes
[It is well," he said, "for they have the faces of angels, and such should be the co-heirs of the angels of heaven]"; Bede
Historia Ecclesiastica
bk. 2

Gregory VII, Pope
c.
1020–85
1
I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
at Salerno, following his conflict with the Emperor Henry IV

J. W. Bowden
The Life and Pontificate of Gregory VII
(1840) vol. 2

Grenfell, Joyce
1910–79
1
George—don't do that.

recurring line in monologues about a nursery school, from the 1950s, in
George—Don't Do That
(1977)

Grenfell, Julian
1888–1915
1
And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light
And a striving evermore for these;
And he is dead, who will not fight;
And who dies fighting has increase.

"Into Battle" in
The Times
28 May 1915

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