Unpardonable Quotes
37 quotes by 31 authors
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here…
— Barbara Jordan
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
— Oscar Wilde
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...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.
— Galen Starr Ross
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The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind…
— Galen Starr Ross
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How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of…
— George Gissing
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'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.
— Germaine Greer
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We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and…
— Eduardo Galeano
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret…
— Jean Cocteau
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We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend…
— Pat Buchanan
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Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of…
— Saint Basil
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Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world…
— Adrian Desmond
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Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of…
— Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
— Emma Goldman
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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable…
— Thomas Huxley
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Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
— Steven Morrissey
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