Top 100 Quotes About Offends
#1. [Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#2. 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
#3. Nobody planned the global capitalist system, nobody runs it, and nobody really comprehends it. This particularly offends intellectuals, for capitalism renders them redundant. It gets on perfectly well without them.
Peter Saunders
#4. What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
Wayne Dyer
#5. If the truth offends you, you are probably on the wrong side of it. Lakesha M Ruise
Lakesha Ruise
#6. Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
Christopher Hitchens
#7. I have an extremely low threshold for disorder; it offends my very being.
Tahereh Mafi
#8. It's just what they are - they're jokes ... most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks ... I can't determine what offends another person.
Paula Deen
#9. I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
Terence McKenna
#10. Before we're Americans, we're Christians. And so we have to be informed by a certain moral sense, which means that we need to speak up for moral principle and for gospel principle regardless of who that offends.
Russell D. Moore
#11. Let not that man presumes to look for mercy from God who offends His Holy Mother!
Louis De Montfort
#12. There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
J.C. Ryle
#13. Just because it offends you doesn't mean it violates your rights. You don't have a right to not be offended
Marie Sexton
#14. We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended.
Moffat Machingura
#15. Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
Anthony De Mello
#16. All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.
Chris O'Dowd
#17. A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.
Mark Lawrence
#18. What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
Fatou Bensouda
#19. He has given me exactly ten Fritos and then secreted away the bag. He doesn't like the smell; it offends him, he says, but what he really doesn't like is my weight.
Gillian Flynn
#20. I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it.
Larry The Cable Guy
#21. Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
George Chapman
#22. You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.
Brad Stine
#23. It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.
David Walliams
#25. When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.
W. Somerset Maugham
#26. But touch me, and no minister so sore.
Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Alexander Pope
#27. not that man presume to look for the mercy of God who offends His holy Mother.
St. Louis De Montfort
#28. Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.
David Jeremiah
#29. The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene ... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.
Roger Ebert
#30. It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, 9 periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very 10 rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the 11 most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable 12 dumb shows and noise. I
William Shakespeare
#31. I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.
Jay Baruchel
#32. You're not a morning person, are you? (Simone)
I'm a Dream-Hunter/demon. By my very nature I'm nocturnal. That big yellow ball in the sky offends me to the very core of my being. (Xypher)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. Is it truly possible to steal a life, if ... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.
Ki Longfellow
#34. The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.
Thomas E. Sniegoski
#35. I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
Julia Ward Howe
#36. A gentleman never offends unintentionally
Oscar Wilde
#37. One who utters speech that isn't rough
But instructive and truthful
So that he offends no one,
Him I call Brahmin.
Anonymous
#38. Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off.
Robin Williams
#39. While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.
Leonard Ravenhill
#40. Sorry if that offends your sense of right and wrong. Oh wait. No, I'm not.
Rick Riordan
#41. Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
William O. Douglas
#42. Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms.
If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.
Chris Rose
#43. So," Chronicler said. "Subjunctive mood." "At best," Kvothe said, "it is a pointless thing. It needlessly complicates the language. It offends me.
Patrick Rothfuss
#44. If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.
Camille Paglia
#45. Isn't it interesting that you find nothing blasphemous about seeking to be like the devil, but seeking to be like God offends you -
Neale Donald Walsch
#46. If something offends you, look inward. . . . That's a sign that there's something there.
Timothy Ferriss
#47. When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#48. What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence ... Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately ... We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!
Therese Of Lisieux
#49. [L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.
Vincent De Paul
#50. There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the vague other-worldliness that often goes with genius.
Boris Johnson
#51. When we're young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young.
Craig Stone
#53. A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you.
Frank A. Clark
#54. Shauna stalks into a room as though it offends her. She was a plus-size model, one of the few known by one name. Shauna. Like Cher or Fabio. She stood six one and weighed one hundred ninety pounds. She was, as you might expect, a head-turner, and all heads in the waiting room obliged. Shauna
Harlan Coben
#55. A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.
Jonathan Rauch
#56. Anytime a sage displays humanness - in regard to money, food, sex, relationships - we are shocked, shocked, because we are planning to escape life altogether, not live it, and the sage who lives life offends us.
Ken Wilber
#57. Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.
Edward M. Lerner
#59. Ultimately, censorship comes down to taste. What offends me may enlighten you. Do you want me deciding-based on my taste-what you should or should not be exposed to?
Peter McWilliams
#60. I've always thought if you don't like what somebody says, don't hang out with that person. Why do you have to complain about it? Here's the thing. I don't hang out with, and I'm not friends with anybody that would offend me or I think offends me or lives a different way than I do.
Larry The Cable Guy
#61. Not everything that offends us should offend us, and not everything that offends us is persecution.
Russell D. Moore
#62. Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians!
George Carlin
#63. You're buying the next one," he said. "The man drinking shouldn't consume more than the man paying. It offends Silf.
Sam Sykes
#64. If being me offends you, maybe I'm not the problem.
Tsem Tulku
#65. It's hard to say anything that offends me. But you're welcome to try your best.
Michelle Madow
#66. As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
Dallas Willard
#67. Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.
Eliza Cook
#68. Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.
Nick Cave
#69. It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moliere
#70. The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.
William Ellery Channing
#71. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
Leigh Hunt
#72. Even to this day, when someone says something derogatory about Boy George, it still upsets and offends me. Part of me will always be quite attached to him.
Douglas Booth
#73. Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.
Lenny Bruce
#74. How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.
Jessica Seinfeld
#75. Such utterance staggers and offends among the listeners. But it also opens vistas of possibility where we had not thought to go and where in fact, we are most reluctant to go.
Walter Brueggemann
#76. It's the minute fanaticism and superiority of the Almanach that offends: the chilling and narrowing of the kinship tie into something denatured and artificial.
Christopher Hitchens
#77. Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.
Rush Limbaugh
#78. I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the typing. Then it's retyped again. Then there's a third typing, which is the final one. Nothing should then remain that offends the eye.
Robert Graves
#79. What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.
Jenji Kohan
#80. Correction is not displaying your anger at their offenses; it is rather reminding them that their sinful behavior offends God.
Tedd Tripp
#81. Beware of flattery, 'tis a weed
Which oft offends the very idol
vice,
Whose shrine it would perfume.
Elijah Fenton
#82. If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
William James
#83. When someone offends me, I think it's a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#84. Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.
Frank Gaffney
#85. Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.
Joyce Rachelle
#86. Contempt for flowers is an offence against God. The lovelier the flower, the greater the offence in despising it. The tulip is the loveliest of all flowers. So whoever despised the tulip offends God immeasurably.
Alexandre Dumas
#87. Sometimes I hate this place. I mean I really, truly, hate it. It offends my narrow-minded and provincial sensibilities regarding good universe design.
Garon Whited
#89. When I talk to friends and editors about possible projects, especially about projects that might come with a significant cash advance, they usually suggest a biography. Sometimes I'm tempted, but the prospect of spending years researching and writing about someone else's life offends my vanity.
Michael Dirda
#90. Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends.
Alexander Pope
#91. Jesus felt pure and calmly thought
Only the One God;
Who made himself to be a god
Offends his holy will.
And thus the right(ness) has to shine
What Mahomet also achieved;
Only by the term of the One
He mastered the whole world
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#92. So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me.
Karen Joy Fowler
#93. handwritten piece of paper taped to the wall by the bar telling customers not to order a lager 'as a punch in the face often offends'.
Neil Gaiman
#94. Good docents often begin by asking the viewer, "What do you see in this work?" The idea that the expert should be allowed to constrain the interpretation of others rightly offends our sensibilities about museums and art. It ought to offend us just as much when applied to Scripture.
Dale B. Martin
#95. The very idea that grand conclusions could follow from such logomachist trickery offends me aesthetically, so I must take care to refrain from bandying words like 'fool'.
Richard Dawkins
#96. Only in America - the land of the free - can an innocent person be forced to plead the Fifth for exercising their First Amendment rights. Say what you want, but you better shut your fucking pie hole if it offends someone's delicate sensibilities.
Kendall Grey
#97. The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.
Louis Mackey
#98. The fact that he still breathes offends me.
G.A. Aiken
#99. The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
Simone De Beauvoir
#100. One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.
Anna Faris
