The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (178 page)

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García Lorca, Federico
1899–1936
1
A las cinco de la tarde.
Eran las cinco en punto de la tarde.
Un niño trajo la blanca sábana
a las cinco de la tarde.
At five in the afternoon.
It was exactly five in the afternoon.
A boy brought the white sheet
at five in the afternoon.

Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
(1935) "La Cogida y la muerte"

2
Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
El barco sobre la mar
y el caballo en la montaña.
Green how I love you green.
Green wind.
Green boughs.
The ship on the sea
and the horse on the mountain.

Romance sonámbulo
(1924–7)

Gardiner, Richard
b.
c.
1533
1
Sowe Carrets in your Gardens, and humbly praise God for them, as for a singular and great blessing.

Profitable Instructions for the Manuring, Sowing and Planting of Kitchen Gardens
(1599)

Gardner, Ed
1901–63
1
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

in
Duffy's Tavern
(US radio programme, 1940s)

Garfield, James A.
1831–81
1
Fellow-citizens: God reigns, and the Government at Washington lives!

speech on the assassination of President Lincoln, 17 April 1865

Garibaldi, Giuseppe
1807–82
1
Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.

Giuseppe Guerzoni
Garibaldi
(1882) vol. 1 (not a verbatim record)

Garner, John Nance
1868–1967
1
The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.

O. C. Fisher
Cactus Jack
(1978) ch. 11

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