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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Love the offender, yet detest the offense. — Alexander Pope

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it. — James Thomson

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. — Edward Gibbon

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

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now! — Joel Osteen

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence. — Hosea Ballou

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

An English law never made magical flight an offence. — Lois Martin

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. — James Thomson

Reassurance, like offence, is taken not given. — David Adam

All offences come from the heart. — William Shakespeare

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

I, for instance, have a great deal of AMOUR PROPRE. I am as suspicious and prone to take offence as a humpback or a dwarf. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The act of taking offence becomes a weapon, and its wielder feels empowered by the false indignation. — Steven Erikson

Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence. — Octavius Winslow

Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall. — John Marsden

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended. — Bruce Lee

There being some of them who had still quite natural manners, which in a courtier is, I need hardly say, a very grave offence. — Oscar Wilde

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !. — Anthony Trollope

Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the 'civilized' as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence. — Vinod Pande

No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****."
"I feel like s**** — Vince Flynn

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

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

But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place. — Charles Stross

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

If a man would commit an inexpiable offence against any society, large or small, let him be successful. They will forgive any crime except that. — Charles Dickens

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. — Clive Barker

If a man realizes who he is, he cannot be hurt, humiliated or offended — Sunday Adelaja

Every one has something in his nature which, if he were to express it openly, would of necessity give offence. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What is called 'offence to a community' is more often than not actually a struggle within communities. — Kenan Malik

In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government. — Garry Breitkreuz

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

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

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

Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. — Ambrose Bierce

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

No offence, Em, but us being together is way too dangerous and crazy to risk for just sex. Fuck that. I want do to this right. Are you with me? — Joanna Wylde

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly; repent and move on. — Israelmore Ayivor

Inexperienced, or insecure, leaders are often tempted to make any infraction a capital offence. — Alex Ferguson

If you must be affected by other people's misfortunes, show them pity instead of contempt. Drop this readiness to hate and take offence. — Epictetus

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

A high and attainable goal and being focused on it, is the best cure for laziness, excuses, offence, and hatred — Sunday Adelaja

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all. — Moliere

Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. — Ed Stoppard

sound reasoning always gives offence. Julien's — Stendhal

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? — P.G. Wodehouse

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

Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males. — James Taranto

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

The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence. — Simon May

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

The cross of Christ is in itself an offence to the world; let us take heed that we add no offence of our own. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. — William Gilmore Simms

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven — William Shakespeare

Blasphemy is not an offence against truth, but the offence of truth against Priestcraft. — Philanthropos

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

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

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage. — Michael Leunig

A small unkindness is a great offence. — Hannah More

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more. — Laozi

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. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death. — Morrissey

Fools should not have chapping sticks'; that is, weapons of offence. — Walter Scott

there's a time and place for taking offence. — Mark Lawrence

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit. — Ann Widdecombe

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

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly
I know not which is the greater ... — Amelia Barr

And since the griefstruck rarely know what they need or want, only what they don't, offence-giving and offence-taking are common. — Julian Barnes

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

Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence. — Dada Bhagwan

Overlooking an offence is a gift of love — Lailah Gifty Akita

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. — Jonathan Swift

Hate nobody; love everybody including people who offend you. — Israelmore Ayivor

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

Jesu, but you're one hideous offence to the eye." I could tell he was going to kill me, so no point in being tactful. — Mark Lawrence

No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil' Kim tribute — Azealia Banks

you cloak your offence by ignorance, saying that you did not know my determination in this matter. it is a double offence to do ill and color it so. — Julia Fox

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself
if I may be allowed the expression
than to itself. — Sir Fulke Greville

Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff. — Richard Sherman

Mill was very clear on this point: offence should not be confused with harm. — Nigel Warburton

I can see that you spoke in ignorance, and I bitterly regret that I should have been so petty as to take offence where none was intended. — T.H. White

The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny. — Simon Young

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

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. — Sophocles

The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender. — Dante Alighieri

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

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. — P.G. Wodehouse

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured. — Sri Aurobindo

A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life. — Anthony Burgess

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

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. — A.J.P. Taylor

No offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. — Aldous Huxley

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull. — Marcus Brigstocke

Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not
and decides to take offence. — Anton Chekhov

A writer must not take offence when inverts give his heroines masculine faces. — Marcel Proust

He'd write letters by the ream, if it was a capital offence! — Charles Dickens

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. — William Cowper