Give Offence Quotes
- The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence. — Walter Savage Landor
- Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give… — Robert Frost
- When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church… — Ambrose
- An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt
- I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. — James Thomson