Forgive Me quotes
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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.
-- Agatha Christie -
It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
-- Alan Redpath -
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
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Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.
-- Bob Dylan -
As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.
-- Bohumil Hrabal -
I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.
-- Boris Yeltsin -
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Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.
-- Bryan Adams -
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
-- Catherine the Great -
Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong,
-- Charles Ferguson -
Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
-- Charles Olson -
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He frames my face with his hands as he says, "Tess. Only you could be brave enough to die with me. But I want you to live for me." We kiss, as desperate as though we were drowning. When our lips part, Alec says, "Forgive me.
-- Claudia Gray -
Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.
-- Countee Cullen -
Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.
-- Dalida -
Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.
-- David Mitchell -
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Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.
-- Derek Landy -
I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.
-- Ding Ling -
Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you.
-- Drake -
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Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
-- Edgar Degas -
Hopefully America will forgive me.
-- Elana Meyers -
I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?
-- Elizabeth Bishop -
I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.
-- Elizabeth Lowell -
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I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me. Forgive me if I don't have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you'll understand.
-- Ella Fitzgerald -
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!
-- Emily Dickinson -
My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!
-- Francis Beaumont -
I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.
-- Gabrielle Zevin -
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Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue.
-- Gena Showalter -
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
-- George William Russell -
You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.
-- Graham Greene -
God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
-- Heinrich Heine -
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I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo
-- Ian Doescher -
It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.
-- Ivo Andric -
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
-- J. K. Rowling -
I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.
-- Jack Abramoff -
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Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.
-- Jean Seberg -
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
-- Jim Elliot -
Because I was flat out wrong I'm on my knees Begging that you Will forgive me, please
-- John Walter Bratton -
I love you Just coz Please forgive me I'm soz
-- John Walter Bratton -
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Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
-- Jose Saramago -
God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.
-- Kate Horsley -
She knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. "Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention." "And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house.
-- Kristin Cashore -
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Forgive me-he mumbled against her lips. Please. Forgive me for what I'm going to do to you. ~Shade
-- Larissa Ione -
I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all." "Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. "You've lied to me all these years!
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.
-- Marghanita Laski -
If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good.
-- Matt Dillahunty -
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Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)
-- Melissa Marr -
I pray to you God to forgive me from all my sins, to allow me to glorify you in every possible way.
-- Mohamed Atta -
I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.
-- Pinetop Perkins -
Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!
-- Pope Francis -
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If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.
-- Rabia Basri -
I don't like this," he said. I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was sorry, what do you want me to do? Beg?I will. I'll get on my knees right here if you want.
-- Rachel Caine -
I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
-- Rafael Palmeiro -
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
-- Robert Frost -
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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll -
I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."
-- Robert Southey -
I'm home. I hope the Manchester United fans forgive me for being late.
-- Robin van Persie -
Don't be sad. Even if the world won't forgive you, I'll forgive you. Don't be sad. Even if you don't forgive the world, I'll forgive you. So please tell me. How do I make you forgive me?
-- Ryukishi07 -
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The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me.
-- Sherri Shepherd -
I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!
-- Susan Smith -
If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
-- Ted Allen -
Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if she’s ripe?
-- Tessa Dare -
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Forgive me for speaking frankly, but after the past quarter-hour's conversation, I am unconvinced that any of you possess the sense or sensitivity to impart the news in any respectful fashion" - Amelia
-- Tessa Dare -
Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.
-- The Notorious B.I.G. -
Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.
-- Thomas Leuthard -
Words don't come easily, like forgive me.
-- Tracy Chapman -
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If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not
-- Veronica Roth -
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
-- Walter Scott -
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
-- William Blake -
Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
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Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.
-- Woody Allen -
Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.
-- Crane Wilbur -
Here's one of the great things, and I may have said this somewhere, so forgive me. Curb ideas are not Veep ideas. I definitely have my Curb idea list that I've been carrying around for the last five years.
-- David Mandel -
We had the city trying to demolish two of our exhibition spaces, which was at first pretty disturbing. But following the freak-out is the realization that an attachment to any kind of form is pointless. Forgive me if I seem like a complete nihilist, but if the demolition trucks show up and the buildings come down, then that just presents a new setting in which an artist can work. The real challenge is trying to conceal my delight in the process.
-- Kirsha Kaechele -
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I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.
-- Thomas Lux -
God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So to confess is to breathe in and to ask God to forgive me of my sins. And as we breathe out we breathe out the impure air and breathe in the pure air. I would say the pure air is knowing that God has forgiven us of our sins.
-- Vonette Bright
