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Offenders Quotes (page 8)

And long afterwards, in moments of the greatest merriment, there would rise before him the figure of the little clerk with the balding brow, uttering his penetrating words: "Let me be. Why do you offend me?" --and in these penetrating words rang other words: "I am your brother." And the poor young man would bury his face in his hands, and many a time in his life he shuddered to see how much inhumanity there is in man, how much savege coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners, and... Nikolai Gogol
Nick Hornby quote: "What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's..."
What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste. Nick Hornby
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection? Oscar Wilde
Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes, plague, and pestilence? Had he not stood, like the Pompeian sentry, while the Citadels of the Plain fell to ruin about his ears? Evelyn Waugh
Jules Renard quote: "Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend."
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. Jules Renard
Gore Vidal quote: "Never offend an enemy in a small way."
Never offend an enemy in a small way. Gore Vidal
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "the laws of nature have continually all my life offended me..."
...the laws of nature have continually all my life offended me more than anything. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Austen quote: "No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he..."
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman alone who can make it a torment. Jane Austen
John C. Maxwell quote: "Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others."
Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others. John C. Maxwell
A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can. Jonathan Swift
This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe. John Bunyan
Ow!' was the first thing out of her mouth, followed by a steam of articulate and literate curses that were neither blasphemous nor prurient. She'd had years to develop a vocabulary of invective that wouldn't offend anyone. It was the sort of thing a princess had to do if she was going to be able to adequately vent her feelings. Mercedes Lackey
Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly refuses to show the Muslim cartoons on The O’Reilly Factor, saying he doesn’t want to offend anyone’s religion. Someone should tell him those endless interviews with prostitutes from the Bunny Ranch and porn stars aren’t high on Christians’ list of enjoyable viewing either. Ann Coulter
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. Jonathan Swift
Jose Saramago quote: "A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man..."
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended. Jose Saramago

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