To take offense is to give offense.

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

— Ken Kesey

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense…

— Thomas Wyatt

It's football. The game hasn't changed. There's not tons of new concepts every year that go in. Offense is offense; it's our job to…

— Josh Allen

You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you…

— Harold Sherman

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get…

— Yuri Bezmenov

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

— Richard Dawkins

None are as offended as those who contrive offense.

— Kurt Hanks

“She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of…

— Molly Ringle

I can understand that the man you told me about has offended you, and I am very annoyed that he forgot himself like that.…

— Vincent de Paul

“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.”

— Mark Twain

“You know, one of these days, I'm actually going to take offense if people keep throwing out these slurs. And then things are going…

— John Flanagan

“Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.”

— Tim Fargo

God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against…

— D. A. Carson

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

— John Wesley

“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough