A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
Alexander Chase

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting.
Peter Allen

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
Suzanne Somers

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky

God will forgive me. It's his job.
Heinrich Heine

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul