The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit. — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume. — Prince Harry Copy Share Image
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Offence doesn't concern me. It's easier for people to get layups than it is to get stops on defence or a block. — Rasheed Wallace Copy Share Image
Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It's often not the message that's sent that causes offence but the one that is received.” — Stephen Asbury Copy Share Image
“To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government. — Garry Breitkreuz Copy Share Image
If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I just have no interest in making a biopic. No offence to biopics, it's just not where my mind goes. — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence… — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the… — Johnny Bucyk Copy Share Image
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his… — Steve Chalke Copy Share Image
(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude -… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
This is an issue that the Prime Minister put on the COAG agenda. First of all, it is something that would only… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
“I think there's a difference between (a) offending people for its own sake, which I don't necessarily want to do, because some… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
