Umbrage Quotes

#1. I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.

Harlan Ellison

#2. Lafayette took umbrage - just gobs and gobs of umbrage - at the patriots' vilification of his countrymen for leaving Newport.

Sarah Vowell

#3. Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.

Ann Packer

#4. You'd think the FBI could've come up with something a little better than Clover when they christened me last year.
Clovers are cute.
I take umbrage at being cute. I'm a god-damned criminal mastermind. Criminal masterminds are not cute.
Except Loki.
Shit, Loki is cute as hell.

Julie Johnson

#5. Never ever make a joke to the police, they have no sense of humour. Never make a political joke, it will always be considered an insult. Always remember that umbrage can be taken by the lift of an eyebrow. Remember that if offence can possibly be taken, it will be.

Dick Francis

#6. Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

Nicolas Cage

#7. As years pass, and the abundance of the future is depleted, the crux of old mistakes and the cost of old choices are ever recalibrated. Resentment, the interest in umbrage derived from being wronged, is computed minute by minute, savagely, however you try to ignore it.

Gregory Maguire

#8. On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui. Oh, the French diseases of the soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. People take even greater umbrage when they hear themselves labeled with a common noun. The reason is that a noun predicate appears to pigeonhole the with a stereotype of a category rather than referring to them as an individual who happens to possess a trait.

Steven Pinker

#10. I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.

Colin Quinn

#11. You're taking umbrage like a tart whose lack of chastity has been pointed out to her.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#12. Shadow is not an umbrage only but the proof of our Existence

Samar Sudha

#13. Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Johannes Brahms

#14. The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.

Mary Roach

#15. One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#16. Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

John Milton

#17. I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?

Zooey Deschanel

#18. Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation - without the pestilence of panic or fear.

Ryan Holiday

#19. Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair ... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

#20. My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.

Peter Eisenman

#21. How could a society produce such masters and such monsters?

Meg Wiviott

#22. If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Oscar Wilde

#23. He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

Douglas Adams

#24. Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

Maya Angelou

#25. Love, then, is really everything that is of value, and fear can offer us nothing because it is nothing.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#26. Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

Olafur Eliasson

#27. The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up!

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.

George Clooney

#29. Do you work for Starbox? If so, I can't say I dig your new marketing strategy.

Jonathan Maberry