Quotes About Offense

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

United are about attacking football, and everything else has to takes its place behind that.

I've had the liberty of having a lot of control in the offences I've been a part of because I get the game pretty well, and I pick things up fast.

You can get into trouble really fast because it's often not what you say or mean, it's what they hear and understand. And be careful not to take offense when they mean no offense.

The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive, and are not offensive to one another.

Bad enough to disrespect a handmaiden, worse to disrespect the handmaiden of the most powerful man in the temple. Whichever way it was looked at, it was a punishable offense. It didn't matter whether she had identified herself or not. Even the plainest woman should be able to walk the street without feeling threatened or accosted.

By then I already knew that I wanted to have a powerful odor and would not care if it gave offense.

I mean no offense," he added, "but you have appalling taste in archnemeses.

The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.

The British Army and Navy sang a rousing song called "Heart of Oak"; the rebels had writ one to counter it called "The Liberty Song." Both songs blustered of freedom; but both were sung to the same tune. And we, to avoid offense, played the tune without words.

If every soldier killed only those who'd personally offended him Peleides, we'd have no wars at all.

If every soldier killed only those who'd personally offended him, Pelides, we'd have no wars at all.

Envy first brings depression: "My life isn't as good as yours." Then comes offense: "Why should you have what I don't have?" Which degrades into hatred.

sometimes it takes time for a person to be ready to forgive. It often helps to explain that forgiveness is not saying it didn't matter; it is not saying we simply choose to overlook the offense. Forgiveness is saying the cross is enough—we require no further payment than Jesus paid. Forgiveness is releasing the person to God for him to deal with.

F]orgiveness is not saying it didn't matter; it is not saying we simply choose to overlook the offense. Forgiveness is saying the cross is enough—we require no further payment than Jesus paid. Forgiveness is releasing the person to God for him to deal with.

If he hath offended in any sort, we shall exhibit the said David before the lords of Parliament to be punished.

Mary found Elizabeth's letter so insulting, she refused to reply at all.

It's hard to pretend to be born without causing offense.

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

No offense means I'm about to hurt your feelings, but let's pretend I didn't.

No habría ningún tipo de guerras si los soldados matasen únicamente a quienes les han hecho una ofensa personal, Pelida. —