Forgives Quotes

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde

Genius, Public, Except

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Yourself, Forgive, Nor

One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
Alden Nowlan

Wise, Child, Himself

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke

Society, Gospel, Adultery

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot

God, Law, Perfect

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Sydney J. Harris

Loser, Forgive, Winner

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter

Women, God, Heart

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
William Penn

Love, May, Force

He who forgives readily only invites offense.
Pierre Corneille

Offense, Invites, Readily

God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?
Alan Paton

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.
James Payn

Friend, Perhaps, Critic

True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.
Nicholson Baker

Time, Great, True

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Minna Antrim

Woman, Him, Save

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
Robert Hass

Year, Earth, Previous

I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
Zachery Ty Bryan

Time, Hard, Person

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