Quotes with offend

  • 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.

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  • John Milton And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Brenda Song Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Thomas Tusser Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.
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  • Benjamin Watson For policemen to be honest about the fact that they may be fearful when they come into a certain situation, not understanding what's going to happen. The only way things will change and things will get better is if people are able to be honest without feeling like they're going to be offended, or they're going to offend someone else.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Buddha If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bryan White 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!
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Jean Rostand It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Jonathan Swift 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.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Adam Schiff Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That's how we grow.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Butler 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.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bill Haley We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.
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  • Salman Rushdie What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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