« All Offence Quotes · George Eliot's Page
Offence Quotes by George Eliot
More Offence Quotes
- No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving… — Thomas Carlyle
- The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas
- Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the… — Unknown Author
- For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death… — Saint Augustine
- There are offences given and offences not given but taken. — Izaak Walton
- Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. — A J P Taylor
- I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's… — Clive Barker
- Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon
- The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what… — Walter Savage Landor
- 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
- It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences… — Henry De la Beche