The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

possessed without humiliation.
‘The Quiet American’ (1955) pt. 2, ch. 3
See also Orson Welles (11.45) in Volume II
7.91 Robert Greene c.1560-92
Cupid abroad was lated in the night,
His wings were wet with ranging in the rain.
‘Cupid abroad was lated’ (c.1590)
Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.
‘Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay’ (1594) act 3, sc. 1
Ah! were she pitiful as she is fair,
Or but as mild as she is seeming so.
‘Pandosto. The Triumph of Time’ (1588)
Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing,
As sweet unto a shepherd as a king,
And sweeter too;
For kings have cares that wait upon a crown,
And cares can make the sweetest love to frown.
Ah then, ah then,
If country loves such sweet desires do gain,
What lady would not love a shepherd swain?
‘The Shepherd’s Wife’s Song’ (1590)
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 Iohannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
‘Greenes Groats-Worth of Witte’ (1592) referring to Shakespeare
7.92 Germaine Greer 1939—
The female eunuch.
Title of book (1971)
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it
is called brain-washing.
‘The Times’ 1 February 1986
7.93 Gregory the Great c.540-604
Non Angli sed Angeli.
Not Angles but Angels.
Bede ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ bk. 2, sect. 1, recorded: Responsum est, quod Angli vocarentur. At ille: ‘Bene,’
inquit; ‘nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes.’ They answered
that they were called Angles. ‘It is well,’ he said, ‘for they have the faces of angels, and such should be the coheirs
of the angels of heaven.’