#offence

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

#confederation #fear #give #got #great

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. ↗

— William Hague

#again #cabinet #constitutional #convention #cynical

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

#elbow #giving #himself #lives #man

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

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#desire #every #man #offence #poor

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody. ↗

— John McGahern

#attitude #compared #did #i #killing

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

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#hair #long #long hair #offence #should

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

— James Thomson

#bishop #give #good #i #i think

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

— Alexander Pope

#how #i #keep #lose #love

Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence. ↗