Offence Quote by Moliere Download Open image “The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.” — Moliere ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Offence Scandal Silence Sin World
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all. — Moliere Copy Share Image
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is open scandal in heaven. — Lewis Sperry Chafer Copy Share Image
There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists. — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you! — Moliere Copy Share Image
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat… — Moliere Copy Share Image
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be… — Moliere Copy Share Image
The Fraud Act 2006 makes it perfectly clear that Libor rigging is prosecutable as a criminal offence. — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
“Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now 'South Park' - they are interested in blasphemy. They're interested in creating offence for its own sake. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love. — Fritz Leiber 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. Just engage… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence; they take corrections.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war… — Antony Beevor 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 gives us,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.” — Thomas Carlyle 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, that's your… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
