Naseeruddin Shah Quotes

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

When somebody says something stupid to me, I usually alleviate it with laughter and humour. I make light of it to educate people on why it's inappropriate.

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

I don't want to offend people.

Always be kind, but kindness doesn't mean that you have to not say what you think.

We don't like offending anyone.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.

I don't aim to offend.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

I don't see myself as offending people.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

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

I don't comment on other people's opinion.

Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended.

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

It's important to be thoughtful and mindful about the things you say to other people.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

I have no intention of offending somebody who writes a weekly column.

Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority