Evil Quote by George Bernard Shaw

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

— Rebecca West

Even the gods pardon someone who makes a mistake.

— Saira Banu

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

— Walter Lippmann

“If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil!”

— Anthony Trollope

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else…

— Mary McCarthy

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pardon's the word to all.

— William Shakespeare

Know all and you will pardon all.

— Thomas a Kempis

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

— Thomas a Kempis

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

— Publilius Syrus

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.

— Benjamin Franklin

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

— Madame de Stael