The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences, — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
I'm interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things. — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
“The worst ever offence you can commit against your time is to think that “time spent making plans is time being wasted!”… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill. — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In Germany we say, 'a good offence wins you games, but a good defence wins you titles.' — Timo Werner 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
For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is… — Sir Fulke Greville 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
Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to… — Richard Baxter 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
When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the… — William Hague Copy Share Image
The robust English view used to be that the correct response to offensive words is to ignore them, or to answer them… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; —… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition,… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
“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
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
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
The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The… — Sengcan Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not -- and decides to take offence.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence… — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
“This again results naturally and necessarily from the circumstance that the Prince cannot avoid giving offence to his new subjects, either in… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth,… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
“You may not be able to do anything about how you feel; but you can do something about how you act. People… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
