Offense
Alt. of Offence
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Offense Quotations
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
George Eliot
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
Ambrose Bierce
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.
Brett Favre
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
Richard M. Nixon
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Clarence Darrow
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Charles Baudelaire
Offense Translations
offense in French is insulte
offense in Italian is affronto
offense in Spanish is injuria
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