Famous quotes containing the words began and/or calling:
“I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“[T]he most artful method [of courtship] would be this, to tell her that what she doth not possess is useless and contemptible, that weakness and imperfection is the perfection of a woman, that I am stark mad in love with ignorance; and thus shall I allure her by calling her [a] fool.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)