Somme Offensive

Famous quotes containing the words somme and/or offensive:

    Somme seyde, wommen loven best richesse,
    Somme seyde, honour, somme seyde, jolynesse;
    Somme, riche array, somme seyden, lust abedde,
    And ofte tyme to be widwe and wedde.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)