When You Are Offended Quotes

#1. When you are offended at any man's fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred:

Marcus Aurelius

#2. 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

#3. It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you're offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger.

Auliq Ice

#4. Individuals who are focused on becoming better are individuals not easily offended. You can only offend those who are not on a path of constant growth and enlightenment.

C. JoyBell C.

#5. Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

Martin Amis

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.

John Bartlett

#10. Humble people dont get Offended easily.

Radhanath Swami

#11. Just because it offends you doesn't mean it violates your rights. You don't have a right to not be offended

Marie Sexton

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I'm just saying, as someone who occasionally rigs fights, I'm offended by the lack of professionalism.

Patrick Weekes

#16. 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.

#17. We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended.

Moffat Machingura

#18. It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

T. S. Eliot

#19. 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

#20. 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.

#21. When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.

M. Russell Ballard

#22. When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

Andy Stanley

#23. When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

Wayne Dyer

#24. I think that there's etiquette for every means of communication. People are very judgmental and have strict rules. I don't think you should end a relationship with a Post-it note. I know some people who get offended when an e-mail is sent as a "thank you" note instead of a hand-written card.

Debra Messing

#25. When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. When you are feeling attacked, offended, wounded, or overwhelmed, God's truth is the only comfort that will bring you healing and peace.

Jennifer Smith

#27. When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

Katha Pollitt

#28. It's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

Judith Martin

#29. 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

#30. When I bore you, just tell me to shut up, I won't be offended.'
'I like to listen,' Stu said.
'Then you are one of God's chosen. Let's go.

Stephen King

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

Jess C. Scott

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less.

Mark Batterson

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. But (Peresphone) was like, the goddess of flowers." Grover looked offended. "Springtime.

Rick Riordan

#48. I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#49. Don't get offended, there's no need for insecurity,
Age is but a number, it's all about maturity.

Chi-Ali

#50. Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Rene Descartes

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. Well!" the woman cried, offended. "See if I ever come to visit Genovia!" "No one wants you there," Lars informed her

Meg Cabot

#54. 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

#55. Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

Christopher Hitchens

#56. The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

Holly Black

#57. We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

Sterling W. Sill

#58. 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