Offend Quotes

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.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

I don't aim to offend.