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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live. -- Alexander Pope
Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you. -- Robert Stacy McCain
I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend! -- Jamaica Kincaid
Offend in neither word nor deed. Eat with moderation. Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Master yourself according to the law. This is the simple teaching of the awakened. -- Gautama Buddha
I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone. -- Peter Steele
You can only offend me if you mean something to me. -- Chris Rock
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. -- George Bernard Shaw
If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment. -- Larry Flynt
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended. -- Taslima Nasrin
I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it. -- Sarah Silverman
Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom. -- Alan King
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
It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people. -- Rush Limbaugh
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere. -- Jeff Ross
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. -- Matt Blunt
When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them. -- Kurt Vonnegut
With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it. -- Trevor Moore
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. -- Brad Thor
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. -- Neil Gaiman
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important. -- Marcus Brigstocke
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively. -- Isaac Barrow
My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are. -- Vinny Guadagnino
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 offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. -- John Woolman
The biggest terrorist is the God of the Quran. I know this is very dangerous and this will offend many people. The more you follow the steps of the prophet of Islam and the God of Islam, the more you get close to being a terrorist. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. -- Tony Campolo
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't. -- Mark McKinnon
Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. -- Wendell Berry
Sacred texts always offend reason. -- Mason Cooley
I don't aim to offend. -- Billy Connolly
Alliteration seems to offend people. -- Dean Koontz
All go free when multitudes offend. -- Lucan
Art has an obligation to offend -- Edward Albee
I hope to offend every reader. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
I don't want to offend people. -- Isaac Mizrahi
The best defense is not to offend. -- Chuck Norris
Only lies offend me, never honest counsel. -- George R. R. Martin
I'd rather entertain people than offend them. -- Sam Kinison
Never offend an enemy in a small way. -- Gore Vidal
He who dares not offend cannot be honest. -- Thomas Paine
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. -- Alan Dershowitz
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. -- Brad Thor
I really do mean to offend you, you know. -- Kaycee Browning
Art should offend people because art should challenge people. -- Eriq La Salle
Does freedom of speech give the right to offend? -- Maajid Nawaz
He couldn't offend the gods with a pointed stick. -- Megan Whalen Turner
Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor. -- James Branch Cabell
If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny. -- Tracy Morgan
Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please. -- Colley Cibber
We offend God because we do not know His greatness. -- Benedict Joseph Labre
If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum. -- Fran Lebowitz
To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated. -- Edmond Rostand
My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone! -- John Adams
Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please. -- Philip Sidney
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. -- Jules Renard
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. -- Roger Ascham
Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon. -- Criss Jami
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody. -- Mel Brooks
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. -- John Milton
We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified. -- Graham Chapman
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -- Sam Brown
This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody! -- John Adams
God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend. -- Charles Spurgeon
We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God. -- Saint John Chrysostom
The last thing I want to do...is offend people and ostracize myself. -- John Rocker
This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb. -- Frank Zappa
Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend? -- Roger Ebert
Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend. -- Robert Spencer
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. -- William Congreve
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. -- Salman Rushdie
To speak and to offend is with some people but one and the same thing. -- Jean de la Bruyere
An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none. -- Arthur W. Pink
I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. -- Marvin Harris
In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another. -- Saint Augustine
We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people. -- Darrin Patrick
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended. -- Bruce Lee
Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow. -- Brenda Song
No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him. -- Thomas Adams
The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love. -- Emile M. Cioran
You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God. -- John Hagee
If you can listen to or read anything, but misspelled words offend you, raise your hadn. -- Jarod Kintz
Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. -- Philip Massinger
Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. -- Benjamin Carson
Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him. -- Marilyn Monroe
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense. -- John Galsworthy
No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. -- Don Rittner
People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people. -- Mike Tyson
People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you. -- Laurie Graham
Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else. -- Andy Stanley
Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody. -- Rush Limbaugh
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws. -- Thomas Tusser
What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. -- Robert Breault
I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity. -- Pat Cooper
Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried. -- Sam Harris
There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you. -- Tom Rob Smith
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. -- Mencius
Everything is a sin. It all depends on which person you happen to offend with your free will. -- Michelle Anderson Picarella
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs. -- Seth MacFarlane
People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another. -- Vincent de Paul
To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all. -- Thomas the Apostle
Do not offend devotees or even non-devotees. Because all those whom we know as devotees today were once not devotees. -- Radhanath Swami
One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God. -- Pope Francis
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here. -- Pamela Geller
If you are too afraid to offend anyone, then I'm afraid you may not be able to do anything remarkable -- Bernard Kelvin Clive
I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image. -- Iris Apfel
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. -- Jean Rostand
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill. -- John Florio
In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him. -- Louis IX of France
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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