Offense Quotes

I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does the poking.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.

~ Salman Rushdie

Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.

~ Tim Fargo

Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...

~ Jesse Ventura

My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind.

~ Criss Jami

Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips and offish stance are perceived as cold, managing to offend all.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.

~ John Scalzi

We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended.

~ Moffat Machingura

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended, yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

~ Mark Twain

How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When you open your mouth, listeners are offended.  When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended.  If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver. 

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

One did not turn down an invitation from Saint Cloud. At least, one didn't if one wanted to continue living contentedly in Paris. Vampires took offense so easily - and Parisian vampires were the worst of all.

~ Cassandra Clare

Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.

~ Jonathan Rauch

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

~ Raymond Carver

If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.

~ Nouman Ali Khan

A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?’ What would a respectful cartoon look like? The form requires disrespect and so if we are going to have in the world things like cartoons and satire, we just have to accept it as part of the price of fre

~ Salman Rushdie

The person who offends, and the person who has been offended and awaiting for a revenge have one thing in common: the real uncertainties of tomorrow is truly uncertain to both of them.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you realize that other people put you down because of their own insecurities, unhappiness and jealousy, you understand that there's no need to be offended. Because it's not really about you, but about them.

~ Jeanette Coron

The best defense is a good offense.

~ Jack Dempsey

Has society really become quite thin-skinned, or is acting “offended” a new tactic that is being used to shut down legitimate political debate? Progressives are increasingly claiming to be offended whenever those on the right disagree with their left-wing positions. It doesn't matter what the issue is; the left will divert a legitimate political debate into an accusation that the right disagrees with them because they are full of hate towards them.

~ Rachel Alexander

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them. What we can't see when we're in the box is that the way the world appears to us is our projection, and that we are making this projection to justify ourselves in self-betrayal. We cannot see that it's not others' actions but our accusations that result in our feeling offended.

~ C. Terry Warner

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

~ Ella Leya

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

~ Gore Vidal

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

~ Condoleezza Rice

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

~ Joyce Meyer

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

~ Henry Ward Beecher

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

~ Ambrose Bierce