Top 198 Offence Quotes & Sayings

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

We want to always play with pace on offence.

I gotta continue within the offence and just understand it, pick and choose when to attack and things like that.

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute

Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

I dislike hatred, offence, unkindness.

When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.

For me, as a coach, it is important to put together a team that not only blends but finds the right balance between defence and offence.

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

When I saw Air Boom perform, I went out of my mind. It was two guys with high-octane offence forming a team. It was exciting.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.

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.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.

I took great offence at a journalist who called me blokeish. I have always seen myself as metrosexual and in touch with my feminine side.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

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 resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.

If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.

The Fraud Act 2006 makes it perfectly clear that Libor rigging is prosecutable as a criminal offence.

The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things offer no offence.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence.

I take offence if I'm called arrogant, because I've been brought up in a family that does not endorse arrogance.

I'm interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things.

It is an offence to pay for sex with someone controlled for gain.

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.