No Offense Meant Quotes

#1. William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I know I'm asking a lot. You'd need to start talking, stop growling, and bathe. No offense meant, but you look like a crazy man the way you are.

Melissa Haag

#3. That," said Wednesday, driving off, "is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. Worm food. At night, you're rubbing yourself against worm food. No offense meant.

Neil Gaiman

#4. I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners.
"Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.

Mark Twain

#5. There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.

Christine Downing

#6. It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

Rachel Held Evans

#7. Treat me like a princess, and I'll blow you like a king

Angela Richardson

#8. I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

Elliott Smith

#9. Her father's marvelous gentleness was not because he lacked a keen enough perception of the faults and wretchedness of others; it came from his constant searching of his own heart before God, crushing it in repentance over his own failings. No,

Sigrid Undset

#10. Martise blushed and lowered her eyes. "I meant no offense."

"Ah, another way to apologize. You have an impressive arsenal of conciliatory statements. I've known slaves less contrite than you.

Grace Draven

#11. Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.

Scott Rudin

#12. My apologies. I meant no offense." Except that his tone told her he didn't mean a word he'd just spoken.

Jean Oram

#13. Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#14. It's gotta be any parent's worst nightmare when they lose their child.

Ozzy Osbourne

#15. I meant no offense." "Yet you offend so well.

Amanda Quick

#16. The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.

Ian McLagan

#17. Phaedra shook her head. If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.

Melina Marchetta

#18. If you're listening, I'm the walrus, too.

George Harrison

#19. I met him almost two weeks ago." Jess's eyes went wide. "Holy shit! It's your two-week anniversary. We should drink." Lick-shoot-suck-gasp.

Kresley Cole