Unintentional Offense Quotes

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Never insult anyone by accident.

We all make mistakes and sometimes you say things and you really don't realize what you're saying at that moment.

I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.

I haven't done years of diversity training, so sometimes I say things which are probably tactless, and I don't mean to, to be honest, I don't mean to do that.

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and misogynistic jokes that you have no idea what they mean, and you just memorize them because they have a very strong effect, they make people laugh in this kind of nervous, horrible way, and it's only later that you realize that you've got a head full of crap.

I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.

A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done.

You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops. OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is not to overreact. Instead, keep your chin up and pretend nothing happened.

Sometimes people honestly don't realize the magnitude of their words and have no idea that boundaries have been crossed.

Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.

I don't mind causing offence when I intend to, but I don't like causing it accidentally.

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't yet learnt how careful outsiders have to be when talking about race in America, and I'd put my foot in it. Someone stood up and said aggressively, 'What do you mean by Irish faces?'

I never meant to antagonize anyone.

I don't like stepping on other people's toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.

I went off at a person who threw a plastic thing at one of my shows once. After I shamed them, I realised it was a little lipstick and felt bad for days.