“She frieth in her owne grease.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“She frieth in her owne grease.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“When I think of soul I think of grease ’cause ain’t nothin’ no good without the grease.”
Tina Turner (1939) singer, dancer, actress, and author
Interlude to Respect, live at Basin Street West, San Francisco, 22 February 1969, Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT4PpnoPPqk&feature=youtu.be&t=420 on YouTube
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Immortal Beloved
Anthony Fitzherbert (1470–1538) English judge, scholar and legal author
Source: The book of the husbandry. (1523/1882), p. 47.
“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) Mexican writer
La Silla del Águila (The Eagle's Throne) (2003)
Henry Moore (1898–1986) English artist
Quote of Moore in 'Partisan Review', New York, March-April 1947
1940 - 1955