Offense Quotes

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything. (Aristotle)
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak. View quote
Brett Favre
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. View quote
Dan Quayle
He who forgives readily only invites offense. View quote
Pierre Corneille
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight. View quote
E. M. Forster
Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time. View quote
Sydney Smith
If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem. View quote
John Avlon
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. (Abraham Lincoln)
Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away. View quote
Hayden Fry
It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there can be no offense. View quote
Fidel Castro
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Excessive literary production is a social offense. View quote
George Eliot
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed. View quote
Thomas Hardy
In other words, truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others. View quote
Chinua Achebe
She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense. View quote
Henry James
The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his--attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park. View quote
Henry James
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. (Robert Benchley)
At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense. View quote
Yevgeny Zamyatin
It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us. View quote
George W. Bush
We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets. View quote
Tzachi Hanegbi
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. View quote
George Santayana