Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

-Brookner, Anita
  Ho"  tel du Lac, ch.7.

A message came on the wireless for me. It said: ''. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May18th,1942.

-Peniakoff,Vladimir
SPREAD ALARM AND DESPONDENCY1950  Popski's PrivateArmy.

I opened a tin of Bologna sausage and broke a cake of chocolate, and that was all I had to eat. It may sound offensive, but I ate them together, bite by bite, by way of bread and meat. All I had to wash down this revolting mixture was neat brandy; a revolting beverage in itself. But I was rare and hungry; ate well, and smoked one of thebestcigarettesinmyexperience.Then Iput a stonein my straw hat, pulled the flap of my fur cap over my neck and eyes, put my revolver ready to hand, and snuggled well down among the sheepskins.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Travels with a Donkey.