Quotes with offense

Quotes 21 till 27 of 27.

• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

  Charles Baudelaire
  French poet (1821 - 1867)
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• Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

  René Descartes
  French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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• Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

  Phaedrus

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

  Harold Sherman
   
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• Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offense.

  The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• exhilarating
• aristocratic
• witticisms
• boundaries
• foundation
• apologize

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