Quotes About Offense

As every reader has experienced who may have chanced to be in such a situation, it is extremely difficult to maintain the full dignity of an offended person, in the presence of a beautiful girl, whatever reason we may have for being angry with her.

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

For some reason the mundanity of it all offended Gideon. You'd think people would have the good grace to dress up for an assassination.

Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

Nobody can offend you by telling a dirty toilet story. They can offend you because it's trite; you've heard it many, many times.

In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

I might as well enquire," replied she, "why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. -Edward Ferrars

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

Y con facilidad perdonaría su orgullo si no hubiera mortificado el mío.

It did not often happen; for Mr. John Knightley had really a great regard for his father-in-law, and generally a strong sense of what was due to him; but it was too often for Emma's charity, especially as there was all the pain of apprehension frequently to be endured, though the offense came not.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. I have frequently thought that I must have been intended by nature to be fond of low company, I am so little at my ease among strangers of gentility!

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. I have frequently thought that I must have been intended by nature to be found of low company, I am so little at my ease among strangers of gentility.

At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer. Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Epic Steam is easily offended. He has high standards of behavior with regard to his own person, and every human he has met so far has offended them. Other horses aren't so bad—they have been capable of learning, and so they don't offend him, and he isn't mean with them, only bossy. It's the people who are blind and stubborn.

Being offended is, in itself, an unpleasant sensation, just like pain in your mouth is an unpleasant sensation, but if you have the right amount with the right amount of food, it actually makes the food taste good. So if you have just the right combination, people will laugh despite feeling like it's wrong.

I'm not a fan of the spread offense where you'll go up and down the field, You'll put up a lot of points but there are a lot of things missing that are imperative to winning championships.

There's almost nothing that upsets Americans more than the idea that somewhere, somehow, somebody is getting his feelings hurt.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

If there's anything that offends me, especially if it's towards my family, I just block them. I don't accept that. I don't get upset because I like to focus on the positive.

I don't know of anybody not trying on offense when they're upset.

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.

Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.