Prince Charles
Royalty
"You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that."
Offensive quotes
Offensive
151 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Katie Hopkins
Television Personality
"Mammary militia breast feeding en masse in Costa. Puts one off their latte."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."
Katie Hopkins
Television Personality
"Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket."
Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world."
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"I find you offensive for finding me offensive"
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"The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war."
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"Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all."
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"I didn't just invent saying offensive things."
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"I am, I hope, never offensive by accident."
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"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
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"Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive."
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"Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves."
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"This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive."
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"Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive."
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"Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly."
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"A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises."
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"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat."
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"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave."
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"It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions."
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"Success consecrates the most offensive crimes."
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"Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive ."
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"Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them."
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"Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive."
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"I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive."
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