Offence Quotes

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I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,… — William Shakespeare
You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't nailed down? No… — John Flanagan
What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... — Alexander Pope
Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who… — Lynne Truss
The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have… — Lynne Truss
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; â€” hung it with… — Edgar Allan Poe
No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****." "I feel like s**** — Vince Flynn
Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed,… — John Milton
Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence… — William Shakespeare
It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing… — P.G. Wodehouse
â€¦ that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of… — Amos Oz
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. — P.G. Wodehouse
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 is not resentful — Nicholas Sparks
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again,… — Martin Luther
Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican. — Ed Stoppard
Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them… — Michael Leunig
I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was… — Antony Beevor
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death. — Steven Patrick Morrissey
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one… — Vauvenargues Marquis De
Guilt is feeling of some offence, some wrong doing, to hurt someone, to deceive someone but ultimate of guilt is crime to self. — DrAnil Kr Sinha

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