The public seldom forgive twice.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
Lewis Grizzard

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Margaret Mitchell

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Karl Kraus

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.
George A. Romero

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Josiah Bailey

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
Pierre Corneille

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
James Thomson

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
John Tillotson

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Mason Cooley

To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
Charles Williams

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
Dag Hammarskjold

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp

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