This hath offended! Oh this unworthy hand!

-Cranmer,Thomas
  Last words at the stake, referring to the hand which had signed several recantations, later withdrawn.

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Religion and Literature.

Whenpeopledonot respect uswearesharplyoffended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  Following the Equator, ch.29.