Offences Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
— Izaak Walton
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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
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I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.
— Alan Brazil
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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
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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
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Make your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences,
— Muqtada al Sadr
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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
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Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.
— Swami Vivekananda
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
— Alan Paton
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...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.
— William J. Clinton
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old…
— C.S. Lewis
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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
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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
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O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in…
— Saint Ambrose
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences.…
— Basmah bint Saud
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We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink.…
— Jeffrey Archer
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I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.
— William Shakespeare
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A change will make amendment for great offences.
— Olajobi Shade
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But an officer on duty knows no one -- to be partial is to dishonor both himself and the object of his illadvised favor. What…
— WIlliam Jenkins Worth
Who Wrote These Offences Quotes
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