Famous quotes containing the word offer:
“To be made to hold his tongue is the greatest insult you can offer him—though he might be ready with a poker to make you hold yours.”
—Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865–1940)
“Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by much art and study.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)