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Offensive Quotes - Page 3

We will not build our offensive game plans around our punter... We hope we don’t major in punting.

Rex Ryan's first press conference as coach of the Buffalo Bills, www.buffalobills.com. January 14, 2015.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.299

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 76 (March 1781)

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.97

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

"Russ Feingold: ‘It’s A Threat To Our Country’ To Elect One Of The GOP Presidential Candidates" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2012.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

"When Rights Make Wrongs" by Ralph Peters, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 18, 2010.

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.

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1056, Wordsworth Editions

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.378, Simon and Schuster

Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?

Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.74, Editora Dracaena