quotes about Pardon
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
-- Alexander Pope -
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.
-- Criss Jami -
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
-- Douglas Horton -
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
-- Francis of Assisi -
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
-- Francis Quarles -
We pardon to the extent that we love.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
-- George Eliot -
Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.
-- Gregory Maguire -
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Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.
-- Helen Fielding -
The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.
-- Henry Fielding -
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
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There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.
-- J. Vernon McGee -
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
-- Johannes Brahms -
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
-- John GoodmanSource : "PASSAGES: Oprah's Early Father's Day" by Stephen M. Silverman, people.com. May 5, 2003.
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Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout." "Whithout what?
-- Jonathan Stroud -
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
-- Madame de Stael -
I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
-- Oscar Wilde -
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux -
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Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.
-- Publilius Syrus -
God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.
-- Robert Creeley -
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
-- Salvatore Quasimodo -
You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.
-- Susan Wiggs -
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Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
-- Thomas a Kempis -
To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.
-- Walter Lippmann -
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If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1865). “Fifty Modern Poems”, p.117
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You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality.' Pardon the pun.
-- Christine O'DonnellSource : "Christine O’Donnell, Delaware Tea Partier, Criticized Masturbation On MTV’s ‘Sex In The 90s’ Show" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.
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We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them.
-- Madame de La Fayette