Quotes with offence

  • I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • William Hazlitt An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • William Shakespeare And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alexander Pope How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • George Eliot I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • James Thomson I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Alexander Pope True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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