Pardon Quotes · Page 6

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

— Barbara Olson

'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

— Lewis Carroll

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

— William Shakespeare

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

— Benjamin Whichcote

I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.

— Jordi Cuixart

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

— Walter Lippmann

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

— Maxim Gorky

The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to…

— Alice Paul

To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for…

— Julius Charles Hare

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's…

— William Gurnall

The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything.…

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon,…

— W. H. Auden

Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world." "Who…

— Libba Bray

O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon…

— Gemma Galgani

But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated.…

— Erich Segal

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis…

— Henry David Thoreau

I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken…

— T. B. H. Stenhouse

My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some…

— Daniel Defoe

Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed…

— Arthur Gordon Webster

People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who…

— L. Neil Smith

I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.

— Chelsea Manning

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

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Helen Fielding

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

— Francis Quarles

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

— Anselm of Canterbury

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

— Darynda Jones

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his…

— Timothy Keller

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

— Saint Augustine

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

— Dave Attell

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

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— Christine O'Donnell

I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

— Michael Jackson

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

— Martin Sheen

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 youll pardon the expression.

— Martin Sheen

I saw what's going on under my chin. I don't want to be the one the President has to pardon on Thanksgiving.

— Joan Rivers