"Offend" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I shall offend you; if I say No, you'll think I don't mean it,' he replied, looking ...
— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy
... May: They buy jolly mugs, Bowls, pictures, and jugs: The things round their necks Are lively with checks, (For they like something red As a frame for the head): Or they'll curse you with oaths, That tear holes in your clothes. (With nothing to mend them You'd best not offend them.) ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various
... to our speech, temper, and pleasures. To be able to control the tongue is rightly esteemed one of the greatest of moral achievements. You remember what the apostle James says, that "if any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle [control] the whole body." It is so easy to say cross or unkind words; so easy to make slighting or gossiping remarks about companions ...
— Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls • Helen Ekin Starrett
... in this hell, nothing can console him; and he cannot believe that he shall ever be delivered or comforted. But when he is in heaven, nothing can disturb him: he believes that no one will ever be able to offend or trouble him again, though it is indeed possible that he may again be ...
— Light, Life, and Love • W. R. Inge
... slight was accidental, and he rarely grieved over it. Mere acquaintances had not the power to touch his heart. And this gentle heart which, liking many, loved but few, none whom he loved ever could really offend. He ...
— A Noble Life • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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