Threatened

Famous quotes containing the word threatened:

“[He] didn’t dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.”
—Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866)

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)