Top 88 Offended Someone Quotes
#1. In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.
Murasaki Shikibu
#2. I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.
Sophia Bush
#3. Paige needs someone who has a spotlight," Cass starts. I feel Houston shift, and I keep my eyes at my drink. I should argue with her, be offended or defend myself. But the old me, the girl I was before, wouldn't. She'd agree. "Paige
Ginger Scott
#4. We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended.
Moffat Machingura
#5. Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.
Joel Osteen
#6. Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Robertson Davies
#7. If you can't participate in someone else's good fortune and show them love. How can you get offended when they don't partake in yours. Good fortunes are made to be enjoyed. Like a old wise pimp will say "Don't hate, participate.
J. Wrice Sr.
#9. I like visceral writing that people can't help but respond to, even if they respond, and they're shocked, or they're angry, or they're offended. I think that's the only way to reach people.
Geneva Carr
#10. In my experience, when people take offence at something, it is invariably because they know that there is a large grain of truth in what has offended them. Otherwise, why would they complain about it?
Arthur Mathews
#11. Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the desk he was so offended.
Andy Kindler
#12. Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.
Amos Elon
#13. Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.
Leonard Ravenhill
#14. Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?
Brad Stine
#15. I never thought people would be mortally offended by the sounds I was making.
Joanna Newsom
#16. Remember that being offended is not the same thing as being right.
Dave Barry
#17. I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!
Courtney Love
#18. Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.
Jason Isaacs
#20. Apologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, "I'm sorry." It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.
Jim Norton
#21. No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen
#22. Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it's rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them.
Ben Feldman
#23. It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
T. S. Eliot
#24. To me, it's worth getting offended by someone if it means I can trust that every word is their true opinion.
Sarah Glidden
#25. I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.
Sarah Silverman
#26. If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?
Iyanla Vanzant
#27. We are more willing to offend someone with whom we have weak ties, and a willingness to offend is an important part of creativity. Strong ties make us feel good, make us feel that we belong, but they also constrict our worldview.
Eric Weiner
#28. I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
Calvin Klein
#29. Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Carlos Castaneda
#30. Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
Carlos Castaneda
#31. The way to stop political correctness is to not do it. If someone says, You offended me then you say I don't care! If they're offended by the truth, that's their issue!
Brad Stine
#32. I've learned not to take things personally. We can get offended by anything if we want to. It's not hard to hurt someone's feelings; all they have to do is believe what the offender is saying to be true. No one knows me like I know me, and therefore, no one can hurt me.
Melanie Iglesias
#33. When someone thanks God, I don't get offended.
Ricky Gervais
#34. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
David A. Bednar
#35. I've been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked. And even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head. It's inevitable that one day, someone, somewhere will say that I've offended them, and that will be that.
Jeremy Clarkson
#36. In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?"
I stood and removed his shirt. "Then they'll have a good story to tell."
"Good?" He adopted the pretense of being offended.
"Prove me wrong.
Maria V. Snyder
#37. If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.
Nouman Ali Khan
#38. If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
Joyce Meyer
#39. How easily someone is offended is directly proportional to how stupid they are.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#40. He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?
Donna Lynn Hope
#41. I can't choose whether someone is offended by my actions. I can choose whether I care.
Martin Fowler
#42. When you know someone you can make a little more fun of them without them getting offended.
Jimmy Kimmel
#43. Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
St. Catherine Of Siena
#44. There's no reason to be offended if someone is being honest and tactful. To tell the truth in kindness is a huge favor. To help people avoid the wrong path, or get on the right one, can save them years of frustration. In the end, candor grows respect.
Nancy K. Eberhardt
#45. If you have to say "no offense" to someone, you have already offended them.
Meg Cabot
#46. I find that those who voted for George W. Bush are less offended by his religious references, and those who voted for Bill Clinton did not seem offended at all when people prayed at his inauguration.
Gwen Ifill
#47. A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood.
Robert Spencer
#48. Glenn Beck is offended! Glenn Beck thinks playing the Nazi card is going too far. Glenn Beck. this is a guy who uses more Swastika props and video of the Nuremberg rallies than the History Channel.
Lewis Black
#49. Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes
#50. Don't get offended, there's no need for insecurity,
Age is but a number, it's all about maturity.
Chi-Ali
#51. I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#52. But (Peresphone) was like, the goddess of flowers." Grover looked offended. "Springtime.
Rick Riordan
#53. There's a lot of terminology, like "washes whiter than snow," and these things which when they're said in a uniracial congregation, they just go fine. But when they're said in a mixed congregation, some people will get offended and wonder, "Why are you saying that? What are you saying?"
Michael Emerson
#54. Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.
Wim Wenders
#55. When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.
Vint Cerf
#56. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less.
Mark Batterson
#57. Well!" the woman cried, offended. "See if I ever come to visit Genovia!" "No one wants you there," Lars informed her
Meg Cabot
#58. Do I look like a shallow Summer girl to you?' She tossed her silver hair, offended. 'I'm a Winter Court royal. I kill silly Summer flowerlets with frost when I yawn.
Vicki Keire
#59. The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.
Neal A. Maxwell
#60. Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated.
John Bevere
#61. Even though you would like to be able to decide for yourself how offended to be, or whether to be offended at all, you must nevertheless be very offended.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#62. It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#63. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.
Jonathan Swift
#65. He was impugning my virtue. I ought to have been offended, but for some reason the idea tickled me. That could be my next career: instrument of torture! Seducing prisoners, and then revealing my dragon scales! They would confess out of sheer horror.
Rachel Hartman
#66. Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.
Simon Sinek
#67. Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.
David Dark
#68. I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
Laila Ali
#69. I'm just saying, as someone who occasionally rigs fights, I'm offended by the lack of professionalism.
Patrick Weekes
#70. I'm not offended or embarrassed by the fact that I design clothes for women to wear. So when I meet women who love my clothes, it's a really good, straightforward thing. It makes me feel like I'm doing my job right.
Stella McCartney
#71. Physical imperfections have always offended him, but apparently my bad hygiene wasn't repellent enough. Perhaps Ms. Mues's full-blown adulthood will be.
Laura Wiess
#72. It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.
Mindy Kaling
#73. Just because it offends you doesn't mean it violates your rights. You don't have a right to not be offended
Marie Sexton
#75. You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.
John Bartlett
#76. Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal to that shown by Americans when the department store fouls up their bills.
Letitia Baldrige
#77. Some people are weak in their faith and testimonies but are not even aware of how precarious their situation is. Many of them likely would be offended at the suggestion.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#78. When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.
Marcus Aurelius
#79. The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6
Seneca.
#80. Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
Martin Amis
#81. It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you're offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger.
Auliq Ice
#82. My tone must have seemed hostile, even though I wasn't angry or offended; there was just a touch of sarcasm. He tried to respond but he did so in an awkward, muddled way, half in dialect, half in Italian. He said he was sure that his mother was wandering around Naples as usual.
Elena Ferrante
#83. Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,
Bells in your parlours, wild cats in your kitchens,
Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,
Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.
William Shakespeare
#84. We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.
Sterling W. Sill
#85. The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
Holly Black
#86. Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
Christopher Hitchens
#87. Personally, I felt terrible for telling Truth my name was Schnitzeldoodle. I still think about it. Sometimes I just have to rock myself back and forth and say, You've offended so many people at this point. Don't try to keep track now, girl.
Chelsea Handler
#88. And before any Christian readers get all offended - relax. I'm not saying that I'm the new Jesus. I'm just saying there's a very good chance that I might be.
Danny Wallace
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