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
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
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
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
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
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
This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and… — Sir John Davies 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
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
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
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
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
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful… — African Spir Copy Share Image
(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his… — Steve Chalke Copy Share Image
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
You may have started the sentence with 'no offence', but that doesn't mean you can follow that with whatever you want. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull. — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... — Alexander Pope 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
I take offence if I'm called arrogant, because I've been brought up in a family that does not endorse arrogance. — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the ‘civilized’ as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.” — Vinod Pande 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
I just have no interest in making a biopic. No offence to biopics, it's just not where my mind goes. — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government. — Garry Breitkreuz Copy Share Image
“To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“It's often not the message that's sent that causes offence but the one that is received.” — Stephen Asbury Copy Share Image
Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Offence doesn't concern me. It's easier for people to get layups than it is to get stops on defence or a block. — Rasheed Wallace Copy Share Image