Offence Quotes

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.

If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

Honestly some folk will take offence at anything, I met a bloke with no legs this morning while at the bus stop, all I asked was "How are you getting on?"

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things offer no offence.

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.