Offence Quotes

114 quotes by 95 authors

Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to… — Timothy Pickering
Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies… — Robert Anton Wilson
I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect… — Stanley Baldwin
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by… — Jorge Luis Borges
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or… — Harlan F. Stone
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured. — Sri Aurobindo
I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume. — Prince Harry
I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence… — William Whipple
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was… — John McGahern
If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law â€“… — Lee Kuan Yew
No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lilâ€™ Kim tribute — Azealia Banks
If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd. — John Milton
David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is… — Margo Kingston
There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more. — Laozi
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the… — Edmund Burke
Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences, — Muqtada al Sadr
If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action. — Ulrike Meinhof
By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of… — Judith Sargent Murray
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven — William Shakespeare

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