#offence

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

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

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

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

— James Thomson

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

— George Eliot

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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

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