Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

None is offended but by himselfe.

Horace Walpole

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

Noam Chomsky

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Ken Curtis

I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

Patsy Cline

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

Joseph Addison

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Ralph Peters

The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

John Ruskin

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

John Bartlett

You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.

Larry King

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

Karl Pilkington

I don't want to go about offending people, that's not my plan.

Jimmy Carr

I don't see myself as offending people.

George Lopez

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

Joyce Meyer

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

Louise Penny

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

Sandra Bernhard

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

Phyllis Diller

You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone.

Randall Robinson

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Tucker Max

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

Marco Rubio

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.

Richard Armour

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

Rush Limbaugh

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

Walter Savage Landor

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.