Offend Quotes

#1. One should never offend more men than one can persuade,

Philippa Gregory

#2. When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Jesus enters the garden, in preparation, intending to face his fears by facing his God, his Father, His greatest fear is to offend his Father, to disobey his own calling, its integrity, and the word of God on his life.

Megan McKenna

#4. The last thing I want to do ... is offend people and ostracize myself.

John Rocker

#5. It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.

Benjamin Carson

#6. Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.

Megan Whalen Turner

#7. I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Fatty Arbuckle

#8. 'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

Edmund White

#9. A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

Jerry Lewis

#10. As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.

Audre Lorde

#11. Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult ... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

Don Feder

#12. He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Thomas Paine

#13. But even if they did have that kind of money rattling around in their pockets, actually spending it would offend their native frugality.

Neal Stephenson

#14. Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Martin Luther

#15. In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.

Louis IX Of France

#16. Offend Dobby!" choked the elf. "Dobby has never been asked to sit down by a wizard - like an equal -

J.K. Rowling

#17. A writer hopes never to offend, but if he must, pray let him offend the gods before the reviewers.

Chila Woychik

#18. Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

John Florio

#19. Now every time he turned to her, he bent his head, as though he would have fallen at her feet, and in his eyes there was nothing but humble submission and dread. 'I would not offend you' his eyes seemed every time to be saying, 'but I want to save myself, and I don't know how.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. Try to understand that there is more thoughtlessness than malice in the world. People are not out to offend you deliberately and maliciously. But all of us are thoughtless at times and do not readily realize that our words and actions are going to hurt people.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#21. I'm fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware that I don't really care.

Briana Blair

#22. You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.

John Hagee

#23. When we latch on to an identity, it's easy to take offence. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and reacting.

Steve Hagen

#24. We have all this freedom in America - freedom people fought and died for - and we're so afraid to exercise it. We're afraid to talk about things that might offend other people, afraid to do what we want because someone might call us a 'slut.

Tiffany Reisz

#25. The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

Mark McKinnon

#26. It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.

Andy Stanley

#27. If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We're not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.

Alice Dreger

#28. When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.

Sengcan

#29. I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

Pamela Geller

#30. In this country [the USA], you have got to tolerate things you do not like in order to preserve the First Amendment, in order to preserve democracy, and if people start bullying people into fearing that if I say something I could offend people, that is exactly why we have a constitution.

Harvey Levin

#31. There's something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn't work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without meaning to offend anyone, a musical like 'Les Miserables' would be the last thing I'd ever be interested in.

Pedro Almodovar

#32. No need to offend anyone in the first minute I was here. I usually saved that for day two.

Kat Austen

#33. Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.

Criss Jami

#34. Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

Jeff Ross

#35. Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

Thomas Tusser

#36. How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

Blaise Pascal

#37. Hate nobody; love everybody including people who offend you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#38. An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.

Arthur W. Pink

#39. These outlanders are peculiar, aren't they?"

Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to think that we're the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I'm not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.

David Eddings

#40. If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.

Tim Conway

#41. You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

Chris Rock

#42. Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion, the freedom and the joy of being uniquely you. It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.

Don Coppersmith

#43. In so far as we interact with people each day from dawn to dusk, we shall surely be offended by people and we shall surely offend people

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#44. This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

Peter Stone

#45. What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

#46. Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

Samuel Johnson

#47. I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power to upset and offend, are so well made that they're achieved things. However much they upset you, they also affect you.

Frederick Seidel

#48. Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

Alan King

#49. I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.

Taylor Wilson

#50. People have every right to be offended
but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend.

Mark Leiren-Young

#51. You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

Claire McCaskill

#52. Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

John Galsworthy

#53. If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous ... There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Blaise Pascal

#54. In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him.

Rajneesh

#55. Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.

Marilyn Monroe

#56. Love is the fart
Of every heart
It pains the man when 'tis kept close,
And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.

John Suckling

#57. His laughter bellowed throughout the house, and he patted my hand. You've met my sons, Abby. You should know it's damn near impossible to offend me.

Jamie McGuire

#58. If you are still not dead to the opinions of other people, and it is important for you not to offend anyone, then you haven't even started ministering

Sunday Adelaja

#59. I do not wish to offend you, believe me. I have told you my decision. Nothing can change it. I must leave, I must travel, I must be free. Let me thank you cordially once again, and let us bid each other a friendly farewell.

Hermann Hesse

#60. Roman Catholics don't like when their religion is mocked. Christians don't like it. Jews don't like it. But this is what it takes to live in a pluralistic society. You have the right to offend and be offended.

Pamela Geller

#61. Artists and activists offend the sensibilities of the rule-bound when they interfere with people"s ability to accept things in the private realm as long as they are not made part of the structure of the law.

Martha Rosler

#62. I really don't mean to offend anybody, but it's getting more and more difficult to figure out what qualifies as offensive.

S.J. Romero

#63. Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#64. Well," said Madame Morrible in a carrying tone, "one expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend. It is the Right of Art.

Gregory Maguire

#65. Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

Mickey Rooney

#66. I'd seriously contemplated a real collar - a sparkly green one - if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity.

Kelley Armstrong

#67. It is still because of our self-image that we tend to forget answers that may jeopardize our future at crucial moments, or to communicate words that offend who we love the most when we believe we don't deserve the love of another person.

Robin Sacredfire

#68. Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

Sam Harris

#69. I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

Oscar Wilde

#70. Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

Josh McDowell

#71. Lost dog. Looks like a chicken. If found, do not attempt to feed it scrambled eggs for breakfast. You'll offend it just like I did, and it will run away.

Jarod Kintz

#72. When a girl tries to lead, she is often labeled bossy. Boys are seldom called bossy because a boy taking the role of a boss does not surprise or offend.

Sheryl Sandberg

#73. To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.

William Shakespeare

#74. We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone's feelings.

Mary Blakely

#75. When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#76. In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.

Kelly Cutrone

#77. Back in the old days, everyone was shocked if a band had a sponsor for their tour. Now, Bob Dylan can do a commercial for Victoria's Secret and people don't really blink; the Beatles' songs are in all sorts of commercials these days and it doesn't seem to offend anybody. The times are changing.

Judd Apatow

#78. A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense ...

Laetitia Pilkington

#79. Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#80. It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

Nicolas Chamfort

#81. Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#82. He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick.

Megan Whalen Turner

#83. Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

George R R Martin

#84. If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

Robert Greene

#85. Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.

Jerry Bridges

#86. Please, Achimou? (Tory)
You are the only being who's ever called me that. (Acheron)
Well, I'd call you babycakes, but I think that might offend you even more. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#87. What are you doing here? (Jericho)
Do my accommodations offend you? I've grown quite used to them. Though a view of something other than mangled bodies might be nice for a change. (Jaden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#88. When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land by order of his Majesty the King of Spain. Our Lord permitted that your pride should be brought low and that no Indian should be able to offend a Christian.

Jared Diamond

#89. We sing about God because we believe in Him. We are not trying to offend anybody, but the evidence that we have seen of Him in our small little lives trumps your opinion about whether or not He exists.

Jeff Foxworthy

#90. I am an atheist ... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

Andy Rooney

#91. I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.

Edgerrin James

#92. Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.

Steve Maraboli

#93. I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

Taslima Nasrin

#94. I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

C.S. Lewis

#95. It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

Rush Limbaugh

#96. When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air - the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.

Michael Bloomberg

#97. If a person begins by telling you, 'Do not be offended at what I am going to say,' prepare yourself for something that she knows will certainly offend you.

Eliza Leslie

#98. Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

Scott Adams

#99. Never offend an enemy in a small way.

Gore Vidal

#100. I think only things that are personal to us offend us. It's always bizarre when people who would normally laugh at an AIDS joke won't laugh at a cancer joke, but far more people know somebody who's died from cancer.

Jim Jefferies