Offence Quotes
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
William Hazlitt -
All offences come from the heart.
William Shakespeare
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Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
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 to some, but to my Satisfaction.
William Whipple -
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
Jonathan Swift -
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.
Robert Frost -
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
Moliere -
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
William Gilmore Simms
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I'm certainly not worried about the play-calling, ... I know we can move the ball. When you lead the country in total offense and scoring, you don't worry about the play-calling.
Bobby Petrino -
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven
William Shakespeare -
Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.
Richard Sherman -
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
Amelia Barr -
In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.
Garry Breitkreuz -
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
Kate Burridge
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All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress
Kate Burridge -
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
Alexander Hume -
I don't mind causing offence when I intend to, but I don't like causing it accidentally.
Stewart Lee -
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas Carlyle -
The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.
Ann Widdecombe -
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
Thomas Hardy
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Controversy seems to be a by-product of what I do, rather like offence is the by-product of a dog urinating on the pavement. It just happens.
Stewart Lee -
For falsification to constitute an offence there must be proof of "intent to deceive." This is a legally prescribed element of the offence and is negated when the report is submitted in conformity with orders from a higher authority in possession of the true facts.
George Scratchley Brown