OFFENCE

Related Subjects: Abuse, Crime, Curse, Injury, Insult, Slander, Threat

1. What dire offence from am'- rous causes springs.—POPE, Rape of the Lock
   

2. And love the offender, yet detest the offence.—POPE, Eloisa to Abelard
   

3. The multitude of offenders is their protection.—Proverb
   

4. The offender never pardons.—Proverb
   

5. No offence taken where none is meant.—Proverb
   

6. In such a time as this it is not meet
   That every nice offence should bear his comment.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
   

7. All's not offence that indiscretion finds
   And dotage terms so.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
   

8. The very head and front of my offending
   Hath this extent, no more.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
   

9. My remembrance is very free and clear from any image of offence done to any man.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night