Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Baby you should bring your best friend, then you should persuade her to let me get some sex in. Don't get offended,… — Drake Copy Share Image
“Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the ‘civilized’ as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.” — Vinod Pande Copy Share Image
...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I take offence if I'm called arrogant, because I've been brought up in a family that does not endorse arrogance. — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Honestly some folk will take offence at anything, I met a bloke with no legs this morning while at the bus stop,… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The robust English view used to be that the correct response to offensive words is to ignore them, or to answer them… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by… — Edward Dyer Copy Share Image
We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in… — Hyecho Copy Share Image
Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can… — Sarah Harmer Copy Share Image
It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to… — Jamie Whyte Copy Share Image
We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time… — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull. — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
You may have started the sentence with 'no offence', but that doesn't mean you can follow that with whatever you want. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence. — Moliere Copy Share Image
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“Every one has something in his nature which, if he were to express it openly, would of necessity give offence.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
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