Pardon Quotes - Page 13

• Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

  Juvenal

  Ravens, Wicked, Innocent

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• The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

  Henry Fielding

  Mind, Crime, Forgiven

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.64

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• I lose my patience, and I own it too,
  When works are censur'd, not as bad but new;
  While if our Elders break all reason's laws,
  These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

  Alexander Pope

  Law, Criticism, Demand

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.129

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• When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers and sisters, when I see a person in mortal sin, I see someone drawing nearer with every step to the gallows of hell. And seeing him in this unhappy state, I happen to know the way to free him: that he be converted to God, ask God's pardon, and make a good confession. Woe betide me if he does not.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Brother, Moving, Men

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• Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, School, Blessing

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• My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Book, Names, Records

  Daniel Defoe (1993). “Moll Flanders”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Forgiveness, Believe, Forget

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• If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

  Lana Turner

  Party, Dumb, Hollywood

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• One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Forgiveness, Hate, Forgiving

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• And now that Thou has restored to me the knowledge of Thyself, O Lord, let thy pardon fall on me, since Thy infinite mercy is not better known in anything than in pardoning a Dismas (the traditional name of the good thief) on the Cross and a Dominicus Corea on the gallows. If in Hell there is room for sinners, in Heaven also there is room for penitents.

  Dominicus Corea

  Fall, Names, Heaven

  The last address of King Dominicus Corea on the gallows in Colombo before he was executed by the Portugues; as quoted in "Great Sinhalese Men and Women of History - Edirille Bandara (Domingos Corea)" by John M. Senaveratna, 1937.

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• If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

  Bill Vaughan

  Forgiveness, Enemy, Thankfulness

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• To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

  Alexander Pope

  Suffering, Fool, Absurdity

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.228

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• My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

  Michel Martelly

  Past, Thinking, People

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• And for our unparalleled ingratitude to that Adorable Being Who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of the Gospel of Jesus Christ ... let us fall prostrate before offended Deity, confess sincerely and penitently our manifold sins and our unworthiness of the least of His Divine favors, fervently implore His pardon through the merits of our mediator.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Jesus, Cheer, Fall

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• The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Light, Land, Grace

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1875). “Daily Thoughts”, p.240

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• Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

  Sophocles

  Forgiveness, Silence, Silent

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hate, Love Is, Stoops

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• The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Animal, Looks

  'Spain' (1937) p. 12

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

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Repentance

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• You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

  Charles II of England

  Gentleman, Dying, Pardon Me

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• We pardon familiar vices.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vices, Familiar

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• How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.74

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• I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.

  T. B. H. Stenhouse

  Religious, Men, Wife

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• History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Horse, Book, Doors

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• God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Sin, Ready, Has Beens

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