Pardon Quotes · Page 4

Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.

— Criss Jami

“In the land of the living, it is only the dead who is permitted to give excuses.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

— Casey Stengel

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

— Douglas Horton

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

— William Shakespeare

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

— George Eliot

The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus

— William Shakespeare

It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.

— Hooman Majd

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation…

— Ambrose Bierce

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

— Samuel Johnson

The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept,…

— Charles Brent

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray…

— Louis XVI of France

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and…

— Robert Payne

Now me,” said Mr. Vandemar. “What number am I thinking of?” “I beg your pardon?” “What number am I thinking of?” repeated…

— Neil Gaiman

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every…

— Pliny the Younger

President Obama should pardon Leonard Peltier, or at least commute his sentence, not just for humanitarian reasons, but also as a way…

— John Densmore

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should…

— Henry Fielding

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where…

— Anglican clergyman

A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance,…

— Victor Hugo

Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the…

— Orson Pratt

Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my…

— Ignatius of Loyola

As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen.…

— Ann Coulter

The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't…

— Neil Gaiman

But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace...…

— John Flanagan

Begging your pardon, sir…One population can't make peace with another by force.

— Gregory Maguire

Mr. President, I hereby pardon you of all your crimes, for they are just as much mine.

— Live (Band

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

— Oscar Wilde

You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality.' Pardon the pun.

— Christine O'Donnell

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.

— Saint Augustine

What did one say to a stalker? Um, pardon me, Mr.Stalker, but could you, like, not?

— Darynda Jones

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

— Anselm of Canterbury

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

— Francis Quarles

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

— Helen Fielding

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

— Publilius Syrus

“The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).”

— Thomas Watson

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

— Publilius Syrus

I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you

— William Shakespeare

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

— Saadi

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.

— Martin Sheen