William Shakespeare Quotes About Offense

• And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Fall, Offense

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Shakespeare's HAMLET eBook”, p.192, First Folio Productions

• What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

  William Shakespeare

  Rivers, Trout, Peculiar

  William Shakespeare, Nicolaus Delius (1859). “Shakspere's Werke”

• Every offense is not a hate at first.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Firsts, Offense

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth Night”, p.442, Bantam Classics

• Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Weight, Pay

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Measure for Measure”, p.42, Penguin

• Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?

  William Shakespeare

  Mercy, Offense

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.167

• But love that comes too late,
  Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
  To the great sender turns a sour offense,
  Crying, 'That's good that's gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Gone, Too Late

  William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser (2003). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.144, Cambridge University Press

• But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Sex, Uncles

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.193

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