Offence Quotes

No offence to blondes

— Anonymous

All offences come from the heart.

— William Shakespeare

“It is gracious to overlook and offence.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Humble people dont get Offended easily.

— Radhanath Swami

A small unkindness is a great offence.

— Hannah More

I dislike hatred, offence, unkindness.

— Sandi Toksvig

The best defense is a good offence

— Proverb

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

— Linus Torvalds

Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.

— Ed Stoppard

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

— Joel Osteen

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.

— William Cowper

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

— James Thomson

The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence.

— Simon May

If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you.

— Sufyan al-Thawri

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

— George Eliot

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It…

— Nicholas Sparks

I take offence if I'm called arrogant, because I've been brought up in a family that does not endorse arrogance.

— Shruti Haasan

...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

— William J. Clinton

“Politeness can at once be the indifferent affliction of the ‘civilized’ as well as a subterfuge for the designed offence.”

— Vinod Pande

Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.

— Marcus Brigstocke

You may have started the sentence with 'no offence', but that doesn't mean you can follow that with whatever you want.

— Anonymous

Honestly some folk will take offence at anything, I met a bloke with no legs this morning while at the bus stop,…

— Billy Connolly

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...

— Alexander Pope

The robust English view used to be that the correct response to offensive words is to ignore them, or to answer them…

— Roger Scruton

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the…

— William Hague

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in…

— Hannah More

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by…

— Edward Dyer

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

— Salman Rushdie

Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to…

— Richard Baxter

A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is…

— Sir Fulke Greville

For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be…

— John Dryden

The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful…

— African Spir

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is,…

— Jeremy Bentham

I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the…

— Alban Berg

I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if…

— Edmund Burke

“To address this, we must wage a war on the militants. First, we must make it an offence, punishable by many years…

— Jeremy Clarkson

The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege…

— Spencer W. Kimball

It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences…

— Anonymous

I'd make eating hot food on public transport a capital offence.

— Richard Bacon