Offense Began

Famous quotes containing the words offense and/or began:

    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)

    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)