Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now! — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. — Ed Stoppard Copy Share Image
Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence. — Simon May Copy Share Image
If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you. — Sufyan al-Thawri Copy Share Image
I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. — James Thomson Copy Share Image
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not -- and decides to take offence.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The… — Sengcan Copy Share Image
In Germany we say, 'a good offence wins you games, but a good defence wins you titles.' — Timo Werner Copy Share Image
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? — Alexander Pope 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
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
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
“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
For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said,… — Alan Titchmarsh 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
… 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
(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
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
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
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
