personal offense Quotes

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

Everybody's so scared to be honest with one another. If you didn't like the way I handled myself in practice, one of the players, come up to me. Somebody say something - anybody. I'm not gonna take it as offense; it's not personal.

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.

People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!

I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.

If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

Even to this day, when someone says something derogatory about Boy George, it still upsets and offends me. Part of me will always be quite attached to him.

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.

Are they real fires? Or are people just reacting to something? Just because there’s an alarm going doesn’t mean it’s a fire. And I think that people are confusing the two. It’s only a fire when it offends the fans, and the fans turn on you. Tosh has fans, and they get the joke. If you’ve watched enough Tracy Morgan, you let the worst thing go by. When did Tracy Morgan become Walter Cronkite? You have to mean something to me to offend me. You can’t break up with me if we don’t date.

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

I take that as an insult, even at 36.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.