Verbal Offense Quotes

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that is so horrible that it will send you to burn forever in that lake of fire! It's not gonna happen.

I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing

I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.

If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.