Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. — A. J. P. Taylor 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
Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances. — Linus Torvalds 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
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
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
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
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
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right. — Aeschylus 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
People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a… — Michael Leunig 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
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
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
“You may not be able to do anything about how you feel; but you can do something about how you act. People… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“This again results naturally and necessarily from the circumstance that the Prince cannot avoid giving offence to his new subjects, either in… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth,… — Brad Stine 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
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; —… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car… — Ulrike Meinhof Copy Share Image
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
