Definition of Offense

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Definition of Offense
	Offense Alt. of Offence Related Definitions: Alt, Of, Offence

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

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward Beecher

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle

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

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Clarence Darrow

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.
Brett Favre

Offense Translations

offense in French is insulte
offense in Italian is affronto
offense in Spanish is injuria

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