Take Offence Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
— Amy Carmichael
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I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the…
— Edmund Burke
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Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats…
— Aristotle
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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
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I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take…
— John Woolman
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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of…
— Amos Oz
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Love is patient and kind.It's never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited.It is never rude or selfish.It does not take offence and is not resentful
— Nicholas Sparks
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one…
— Vauvenargues Marquis De
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At every trifle, scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense
— Alexander Pope
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At every trifle take offence, that always shows great pride or little sense.
— Alexander Pope
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Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited, it is never rude or selfish. It does not…
— A Walk To Remember
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My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon…
— Robert Peel
Who Wrote These Take Offence Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Take Offence Quotes as follows: