Famous quotes containing the words left, breast and/or suspended:
“Women ... are the permanent victims.”
—Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 6 (1980)
“There is something in the breast of almost every man, which at bottom takes offense at the attentions of any other man offered to a woman, the hope of whose nuptial love he himself may have discarded. Fain would a man selfishly appropriate all the hearts which have ever in any way confessed themselves his.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkled trophy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)