Ethics Quote by William Faulkner

“Bitter old women with a taste for blood. Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.”

— George R.R. Martin

“That only by forgiveness could she forget—and that forgiveness was not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“..., for men can be forgiven many faults for which no such mercy awaits the female.”

— P.O. Dixon

“Men made mistakes and when they asked forgiveness, women forgave. It happened every day.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“But forgiveness...I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad,…

— Libba Bray

“Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.”

— Emily Thorne

“There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to…

— Anne Brontë

“A lady’s capacity for forgiveness tends to be in inverse proportion to the freshness of the transgression.”

— P.B. Ryan

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.”

— Oscar Wilde

“One does not have to forgive if forgiveness is not one of his virtues. But one can forget and never come back to the…

— Boris Zubry

“They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and intensely and,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and…

— Mary Balogh