Violent Offences

Famous quotes containing the words violent and/or offences:

    There may be in the cup
    A spider steeped, and one may drink, depart,
    And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
    Is not infected; but if one present
    Th’abhorred ingredient to his eye, make known
    How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
    With violent hefts. I have drunk, and seen the spider.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this—that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made—not to understand—but to feel—as crime.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)