To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Maximilien Robespierre
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a... →
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in... →
George William Russell
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield
The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are... →
Sherri Shepherd
I would like to remember all and be able to forgive everything - in due course!
Johanna Siguroardottir
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
Charles Simeon
Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
Wallis Simpson