When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding. — John Scott Copy Share Image
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'... — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death. — Anonymous 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
Now 'South Park' - they are interested in blasphemy. They're interested in creating offence for its own sake. — David Baddiel 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
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
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas 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
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. — Ovid Copy Share Image
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
“49. Every one who wilfully, in the presence of Her Majesty, (a) does an act with intent to alarm Her Majesty or… — Kevin Underhill Copy Share Image
“Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change!… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has… — Mark Twain 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
She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War,… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one… — Walter Savage Landor 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
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
At every trifle take offence, that always shows great pride or little sense. — Alexander Pope 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
If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you. — Sufyan al-Thawri Copy Share Image
