“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
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all. — Moliere 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
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
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
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
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
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
That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz… — W. H. Auden 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
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell… — Arthur Lydiard 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
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
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Now 'South Park' - they are interested in blasphemy. They're interested in creating offence for its own sake. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Know the other person’s viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“You should never have suspicion about anyone in this world; not even if it is true. It is a terrible offence to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In such a time as this it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is… — Ulrike Meinhof Copy Share Image
What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love. — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence; they take corrections.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive — Kate Burridge Copy Share Image
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image