“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
“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.” — Dante 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
The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code. — George Brandis 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
All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress — Kate Burridge 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
We like having fun at other peoples expense and, Cutting people down is just a minor offence then, It's none of your… — Sum 41 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
“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
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
The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in… — Hyecho 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
We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we… — Anonymous 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
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
Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be… — Felix Adler 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
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
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
“To address this, we must wage a war on the militants. First, we must make it an offence, punishable by many years… — Jeremy Clarkson 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
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
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
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
“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
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
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all. — Moliere Copy Share Image
The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Every one has something in his nature which, if he were to express it openly, would of necessity give offence.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you… — Andrew Dominik 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
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their… — Edward Young 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
“But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
