Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit. — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume. — Prince Harry Copy Share Image
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all. — Walter Savage Landor 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to… — Rex Murphy 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
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
Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but… — John Climacus 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
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
I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence.… — Bhagat Singh 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
… 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
At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude -… — Ernest Bramah 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
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
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
“I think there's a difference between (a) offending people for its own sake, which I don't necessarily want to do, because some… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'... — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding. — John Scott Copy Share Image
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute — Azealia Banks Copy Share Image