“you cloak your offence by ignorance, saying that you did not know my determination in this matter. it is a double offence to do ill and color it so.”
“I can see that you spoke in ignorance, and I bitterly regret that I should have been so petty as to take offence where none was intended.”
“To my thinking, offence has no possible place in genuine friendship. The one pained always forestalls offence by the realization of non-intention to wound on the part of the other.”
“Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offences.\”
“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
“No offence Mitch, but you look like s*****." "I feel like s****”