“ I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. ”
- Sam Brown- Copy
- 3K
“ It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. ”
- Jean Baptiste Moliere- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. ”
- Rene Descartes- Copy
- 368
“ The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 694
“ An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
- 1.6K
“ You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Re-examine all you have been told... Dismiss what insults your Soul. - Walt Whitman. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums. ”
- Dilys Laing- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. ”
- Philip Massinger- Copy
- 1.6K
“ People often feel offended by praise because it designates a limit to their excellence. Few people are modest enough not to be offended by someone appreciating them. ”
- Marquis de Vauvenargues- Copy
- 305
“ The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent? ”
- Julia Kavanagh- Copy
- 1.5K
“ "I've had nothing yet", Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I ca'n't take more." "You mean you ca'n't take *less*. It's very easy to take *more* than nothing.". ”
- Mad Hatter- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids. ”
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone- Copy
- 858
“ No, I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb, and I also know I'm not blonde. ”
- Dolly Parton- Copy
- 2.3K
“ They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. ”
- Captain James- Copy
- 743
“ I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
- 181
“ A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 1K
“ And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 3K
“ Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. ”
- John Updike- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. ”
- Thomas Tusser- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ”
- Harriet Nelson- Copy
- 740
“ If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 2.9K
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