Famous quotes containing the words assault and/or charges:
“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my
verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have
shunned wit steeped in venomnot a letter of mine is dipped
in poisonous jest.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)