No Offense Quotes

“Are you calling me stupid?"says Emby.
"I think I just did."
Hayden laughs. "Hey, the Mouth Breather's right-unwinding does help people. If it wasn't for unwinding, there would be bald guys again-and wouldn't that be horrible?”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“No offense, Charles, but they’ll probably shoot you just for being black.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Forgive me, I meant no offense." He moved toward the doorway.
Jean-Philippe frowned. "Captain?"
"Yes?"
Throughout their meeting, Jean-Philippe had taken care to keep his own gaze from too often drifting to the parlor window and the view it offered of the trees beside the barn, where for some time the younger brother had been climbing through the branches cutting clumps of berries to be tossed down to his sister. It was clearly an old game with them, and Jean-Philippe could not help but be jealous of the laughter she gave easily to someone else.
He'd purposely not watched them long, in case his face betrayed his interest in her to the captain. It was never wise to let your captor see a weakness he could use against you.
Even now he did not glance toward the parlor window, though he wanted to. "What you just said...'Forgive me, I meant no offense'..."
"Yes?"
"How," asked Jean-Philippe, "does one say that in English?”
― Susanna Kearsley, Bellewether

“I'm sure you mean absolutely no offense,' he purred. 'Just like you meant no offense when you stabbed me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Shadow in the Ember