At every trifle take offence, that always shows great…

The Fraud Act 2006 makes it perfectly clear that Libor rigging is prosecutable as a criminal offence.

— Emily Thornberry

“Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said…

— Israelmore Ayivor

In such a time as this it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment.

— William Shakespeare

It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of…

— Anonymous

Now 'South Park' - they are interested in blasphemy. They're interested in creating offence for its own sake.

— David Baddiel

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

— Fritz Leiber

“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing. Just engage…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence; they take corrections.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von…

— Georges Clemenceau

I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war…

— Antony Beevor

We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us,…

— Salman Rushdie

“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.”

— Thomas Carlyle

There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your…

— Brad Stine

When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the game up…

— Johnny Bucyk

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's…

— Alan Titchmarsh