Offence Quotes
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Offence Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
Reassurance, like offence, is taken not given.
— David Adam
All offences come from the heart.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itselfif 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
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
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
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
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
He'd write letters by the ream, if it was a capital offence!
— Charles Dickens
