Offends Quotes

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

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. — Camille Paglia

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money. — Chris O'Dowd

Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone. — Lenny Bruce

You're buying the next one," he said. "The man drinking shouldn't consume more than the man paying. It offends Silf. — Sam Sykes

Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. — Alexander Pope

Grace is a dangerous topic because the Bible is a dangerous book. It wrecks people, it offends people, and it's tough to read from the suburbs. — Preston Sprinkle

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas

Not everything that offends us should offend us, and not everything that offends us is persecution. — Russell D. Moore

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

Too much zeal offends where indirection works. — Euripides

Correction is not displaying your anger at their offenses; it is rather reminding them that their sinful behavior offends God. — Tedd Tripp

Woe to the man who offends a small child! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people. — Jessica Seinfeld

A gentleman never offends unintentionally — Oscar Wilde

Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us! — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have an extremely low threshold for disorder; it offends my very being. — Tahereh Mafi

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

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing — Benjamin Franklin

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends. — Julia Ward Howe

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. — Eliza Cook

When someone offends me, I think it's a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility. — Ibn Taymiyyah

One who utters speech that isn't rough
But instructive and truthful
So that he offends no one,
Him I call Brahmin. — Anonymous

The zeal of fools offends at any time. — Alexander Pope

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

Ahh it rejoices the heart. Nothing here offends the eye"
~Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie) — Agatha Christie

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. — William Shakespeare

It deserves and warrants conversation because somebody is saying, 'Hey, this offends me,' — Darrell Green

All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us — Luc De Clapiers

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

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way. — Terence McKenna

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little. — Hannah More

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal

She is apologetic for everything.
As always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though her very presence offends — Cecelia Ahern

It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question. — Phil Klay

We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions. — Vicente Fox

Respectability offends my taste. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims. — Frank Gaffney

Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon. — Criss Jami

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

So," Chronicler said. "Subjunctive mood." "At best," Kvothe said, "it is a pointless thing. It needlessly complicates the language. It offends me. — Patrick Rothfuss

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. — George Chapman

It's hard to say anything that offends me. But you're welcome to try your best. — Michelle Madow

[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

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. — Moliere

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect. — Edward M. Lerner

It's good netiquette to avoid information that offends or challenge errors when confronted. — David Chiles

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not. — Nick Cave

We cannot choose who offends us, but we can choose how to respond when we are offended. — Moffat Machingura

A flipped fork flicked my forehead. — Dean Koontz

not that man presume to look for the mercy of God who offends His holy Mother. — St. Louis De Montfort

Tabloid stuff just offends. — William Shatner

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers. — Friedrich Nietzsche

it offends the continuum of human dignity to treat people like the appendage of highly efficient machines. — Simon Head

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

Dear old Woola," she said; "no love could be deeper than yours, yet it never offends. Would that men might pattern themselves after you! — Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me. — Mark Lawrence

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind. — Quintilian

When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

If something offends you, look inward. . . . That's a sign that there's something there. — Timothy Ferriss

A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you. — Frank A. Clark

If the truth offends you, you are probably on the wrong side of it. Lakesha M Ruise — Lakesha Ruise

Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit. — Joyce Rachelle

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words. — Eric Hoffer

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

The fact that he still breathes offends me. — G.A. Aiken

What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched. — Jenji Kohan

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

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sorry if that offends your sense of right and wrong. Oh wait. No, I'm not. — Rick Riordan

Anything you need, you tell him and he'll get it for you. If he offends you in any way, let me know and I'll kill him when I get up. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood. — Mark Dever

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

Beware of flattery, 'tis a weed
Which oft offends the very idol
vice,
Whose shrine it would perfume. — Elijah Fenton

Raw humanity offends our sensibilities. — Barbara Lazear Ascher

Sometimes God offends our minds in order
to reveal our hearts. — John Wimber

But "ma'am" doesn't translate in the North, where it just startles and offends. — Rob Sheffield

Let not that man presumes to look for mercy from God who offends His Holy Mother! — Louis De Montfort

I think my confidence offends a lot of people, but I think people should learn from it and be inspired by it, instead of finding it offensive. — Jon Jones

The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. — Thomas E. Sniegoski

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff. — Richard Pryor

If being me offends you, maybe I'm not the problem. — Tsem Tulku

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society. — Kim Campbell