(208 quotes found)
“No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently -- and tolerantly -- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.”
Mencius
“I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.”
Sarah Silverman
“The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional”
Walter Savage Landor
“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.”
Jules Renard
“Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.”
Daniel Defoe
“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself”
Mark Twain
“During my 17 years of employment in this building, nothing has offended me and my staff more than the erection of this huge, rusted metal barrier.”
William Toby Jr.
“The more laws, the more offenders.”
Thomas Fuller
“to inspire, not offend.”
Mel Gibson
