Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute — Azealia Banks Copy Share Image
When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding. — John Scott 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
Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences, — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. — Anonymous 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
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
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
...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
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
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
“Never ever make a joke to the police, they have no sense of humour. Never make a political joke, it will always… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence;… — Michael Leunig 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
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
The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Remembrance of Jesus' passion will heal your soul of resentment, by making it ashamed of itself when it remembers the patience of… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth… — Stanley Baldwin 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
Love is patient and kind.It's never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited.It is never rude or selfish.It does not take offence and… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. — Alexander Hume Copy Share Image
The Fraud Act 2006 makes it perfectly clear that Libor rigging is prosecutable as a criminal offence. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.” — Dante Copy Share Image
“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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