Top 100 Quotes About Offended
#1. I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either.
Dolly Parton
#2. Having me in the dining-room was almost the equivalent of having a Raeburn on the walls; I was classy, I was heavily varnished, and I offended nobody.
Robertson Davies
#3. The very God whom we have offended has Himself provided the way whereby the offense has been dealt with. His anger, His wrath against sin and the sinner, has been satisfied, appeased and He therefore can now thus reconcile man unto Himself.
David Lloyd-Jones
#4. 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
#5. I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
Al Yankovic
#6. 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
#8. Fellows come in and tell the most extraordinarily gross stories - so gross that they will positively give you a pain. And yet they'd be offended if you suggested that they weren't the sort of person you could trust your wife alone with.
Ford Madox Ford
#9. If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.
Nouman Ali Khan
#10. It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions ...
Spencer W. Kimball
#11. I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.
Zoe McLellan
#12. Don't be offended because I think you're young. Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.
Agatha Christie
#14. Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#15. Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.
Douglas Adams
#16. I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion ... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
William Cobbett
#17. We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.
Ben Carson
#18. Russell, an atheist, hypothesized a less vain deity when he said, "And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence" - which I might add He hides so well.
Anonymous
#19. I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN'T IT?
Terry Pratchett
#20. It's settled, then," Grace said. She turned back to Nick. "Take the Jag to the car wash and for heaven's sake clean the McDonald's Happy Meal boxes out of it."
"Hey," Nick said, his face offended. "That's a low blow. Those boxes are collectibles.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.
Alice Walker
#22. You think I'm daffy?"
"Don't be offended by a snap judgment. It's true of anyone who cares about squirrels.
Edward W. Robertson
#23. I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.
Amy Pascal
#24. Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.
Philip Yancey
#25. It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.
Pete Sampras
#26. If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
Joyce Meyer
#27. When we start to understand God, we will be offended less and we will react less to negative circumstances
Sunday Adelaja
#29. I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.
Nate Berkus
#30. People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.
Eminem
#31. Dammit, it's just like a man to put a rich, fattening meal in front of a woman and get offended when she won't eat, then you seem shocked in the bedroom when you're looking at her hips and wondering how she put on ten extra pounds.
Jennifer Probst
#33. This apology is not just to Bernie Sanders. It is to donors. It is to anyone and everyone that clearly we offended. And the e-mails that were revealed that were hacked.
Donna Brazile
#34. So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously
Dalai Lama
#35. Jacqueline and Jillian, who were crying for some of the many reasons that babies cry - they were cold, they were distressed, they were offended by the existence of gravity - continued to wail.
Seanan McGuire
#36. You're naked?" Kenji is suddenly studying my sheet and not bothering to be subtle about it. I flush despite my best efforts, flustered, frustrated.
"Blondie said they destroyed my clothes."
"Blondie?" Blond man is offended.
Tahereh Mafi
#37. The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.
Gilbert Gottfried
#38. I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity.
Larry Ellison
#39. I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.
Wendell Pierce
#40. Dear Alec, As your best friend and parabatai, I am offended not to have been asked to be your best man at the wedding. Et tu, Brutus. -Jace Alec , he really is upset. He hasn't washed his hair in three days. -Clary
Cassandra Clare
#41. 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
#42. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other.
Alain De Botton
#44. How easily someone is offended is directly proportional to how stupid they are.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#45. Mabel, I manscape," he says in a very offended voice.
Lily Morton
#46. I'm not offended, but the implication that all improper behavior is the result of what I do for a living is rather absurd. As if a chatty five-year-old with a librarian mom would be a red flag. We expected your child to just sit behind her desk and shush people. Maybe she needs Ritalin.
Jim Gaffigan
#47. If you get offended by my music, don't listen to it.
Eminem
#48. Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.
Criss Jami
#49. I'm sure some people might be offended by that, but this is my feeling about show business. It's not all about pure talent. There are certain people who command a stage because they look good ,like me.
Howard Stern
#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. If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.
Warren Farrell
#52. Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
Robert Henri
#53. Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.
Blake Shelton
#54. It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.
Frederick Lenz
#55. We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
Brit Hume
#56. Something had offended her and failed to apologize. Not lately-long ago. Life probably.
Joseph Hansen
#57. 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
#58. No one can make you feel anything. Emotions are whatever you choose to feel. It might be an instantaneous decision - to choose to be happy or sad or offended or hurt - but it's still a decision.
Lisa Magnum
#59. When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.
Nhat Hanh
#60. I love you," she whispered.
He stroked his hand down her back. "Yep, you do."
"You're supposed to say it back," she said, pretending to be offended because the silliness kept the fear/hope at bay.
"Why?" He scowled down at her. "You know you're my heartbeat.
Nalini Singh
#61. I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.
Andy Dick
#62. H.I.V.E. will not tolerate unauthorized violence between students, especially students that have only been here for a matter of hours."
"I was just introducing myself," Otto replied innocently. "I'm afraid I appear to have inadvertently offended them somehow.
Mark Walden
#63. Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.
David McGee
#64. No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his.
John Stuart Mill
#65. Baby you should bring your best friend, then you should persuade her to let me get some sex in. Don't get offended, baby, that's just a suggestion
Drake
#66. I'm always flattered when people on the far Left manufacture a new version of being 'offended.' They can be quite creative in finding something that hurts their feelings.
Mike Huckabee
#67. Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press.
Ridley Scott
#68. Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes, plague, and pestilence? Had he not stood, like the Pompeian sentry, while the Citadels of the Plain fell to ruin about his ears?
Evelyn Waugh
#69. People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
Patrice O'Neal
#70. 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
#71. I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
Billy Connolly
#72. I'm sorry if any of you are catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're catholic
Bill Hicks
#73. I listen to a lot of rap where men talk a certain way about women and I'm not offended. It's meant to be funny. I'm throwing it right back at them with humor, but some people can't take it. They're not used to women talking back.
Kesha
#74. I ripped a tissue out of the box as if it had personally offended me, which it did. Fucking tissue.
C.D. Reiss
#75. I would rather get offended than defending myself, though if it isn't my mistake. Just to see that beautiful smile on your face.
Naveed Baji
#76. Odd people, as I said, and I owe them a great deal, though they would be offended and distressed to think anyone owed them anything.
Ann Leckie
#77. Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.
Joel Osteen
#78. You could help me by shutting up, Eddie said, and the grill spoke no more. He found himself wondering if he had offended it, then wondered if perhaps he should kill himself and spare the world a problem.
Stephen King
#79. But the rest offended her - and inarguably, because it wasn't a gesture but an emotion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.
Kevin DeYoung
#82. Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.
Bobby McFerrin
#83. The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended.
Flemming Rose
#84. We apologize for the fact that the cartoons undeniably have offended many Muslims.
Carsten Juste
#85. The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
George Mikes
#87. You may have even commented on the surprising inappropriateness of such a murderous and bloody scene appearing in a children's book. It's fun to feel offended, isn't it?
Dav Pilkey
#88. Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.
Werner Herzog
#89. For an instant he was offended, but immediately knew he could not be offended with her because she was himself.
Leo Tolstoy
#90. Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
John Updike
#91. Yes, the world is broken. But don't be offended by it. Instead, thank God that He's intervened in it, and He's going to restore it to everything it was meant to be. His kingdom is breaking through, bit by bit. Recognize it, and wonder at it.
Brant Hansen
#92. I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like 'Rush Limbaugh,' and we don't have to put up with that.
Howard Dean
#93. Thanks to Steven, I rode on a bus with the Gay Men's chorus, which he and the doctor had joined. All the way they sang. When I looked at Steven and made a face, he looked offended, but I didn't care. It was way too early in the morning for anything from Sweeney Todd.
George Hodgman
#94. Her greed offended the Aesir. So they did the only logical thing: they burned her. Three times, actually. Each
Rick Riordan
#95. We don't need to forgive God. We need to live un-offended with Him. Part of living un-offended at God is agreeing to live without what He withholds.
Trevor Lund
#96. Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England its gritty flavor and, it has been argued, America its independence.
Stacy Schiff
#97. It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
Lewis Carroll
#98. People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.
Judy Martz
#99. Your art ... " I gaped at the field of white. "There was a lovely portrait of me - right there."
I get offended whenever art is damaged, especially if that art features me.
Rick Riordan
#100. It was to do with the glazed look that always comes over me when faced with somebody who has offended or hurt me and yet whose approval I want.
Olivia Sudjic
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