Air Quote by William Cowper

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

— William Cowper

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

“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

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

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

— David Baddiel

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