#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

#elbow #giving #himself #lives #man

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

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#honest #honest man #man #may #offence

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence. ↗

— Clive Barker

#die #died #dog #fanatic #great

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

— George Eliot

#excessive #i #literary #offence #production