glutton quotes

A gloten of wordes.

-William Langland
c.1377  Piers Plowman (B text), prologue, l.139. (gloten = glutton)

More glutton than artist†he commences to chew up the scenery.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Play review, alluding to an unidentified actor.This is said to have been the origin of the phrase'chew up the scenery', used to describe an actor who is'hamming it up'.