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Quotes About Offense

I have no need to forgive you. You cannot offend me." They were rash words, bu I said them with all the conviction of my heart.
~ Madeline Miller
I have no need to forgive you. You cannot offend me." They were rash words, but I said them with all the conviction of my heart.
~ Madeline Miller
He is offended, it seems, so the omens say, at the treatment of his dedicated servant. Chryses." Agamemnon's shoulders were rigid.
~ Madeline Miller
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.
~ Manfred von Richthofen
So often, the issues that we are so quick to defend or take offense at too readily are indicative of either a wounded or inflated ego.
~ Unknown
The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.
~ John Scalzi
Hakaret eÅŸiÄŸinin zeka ve güvenle doÄŸrudan iliÅŸkili olduÄŸunu söylemiÅŸti. ''Orospu çocuÄŸu'' sözü ancak anas?ndan pek emin olmayan bir adam için hakaret say?l?r ama insan Albert Einstein'a nas?l hakaret edebilir ki, demiÅŸti.
~ John Steinbeck
In this city, we've got a saying: once is coincidence, twice is a booking offense! -Judge Dredd
~ John Wagner
The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain
~ Dave Gorman
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
~ Machiavelli
Amava-a, lamentava não ter tido tempo nem a inspiração de ofendê-la, de fazer-lhe mal, de forçá-la a se lembrar de mim. Achava-a tão linda que desejaria retroceder para gritar-lhe, erguendo os ombros: "Como a acho feia, ridícula, como você me repugna".
~ Marcel Proust
He was the offended party, he was owed an explanation. In fact there is almost always, attached to the idea of a conversation which might clear up a misunderstanding, some other idea which for one reason or another makes us reluctant to have that conversation.
~ Marcel Proust
Which was for me the true friend—Mme de Montmorency, so happy to ruffle my feelings and always so willing to oblige, or Mme de Guermantes, distressed at the least offense toward me and incapable of the least effort to be helpful?
~ Marcel Proust
Which was for me the true friend, Mme. de Montmorency, so glad always to annoy me and always so ready to oblige, or Mme. de Guermantes, distressed by the slightest offence that might have been given me and incapable of the slightest effort to be of use to me?
~ Marcel Proust
Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.
~ Gary Chapman
Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.
~ Ralph Marston
If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
~ Joyce Meyer
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.
~ Pamela Geller
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.
~ Stephen Fry
Yes, we [USA] can be safe and secure, if we stay on the offense against the terrorists and if we spread freedom and liberty around the world.
~ George W. Bush
My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
~ David Allen
Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
~ Alan King