Top 25 Pardonable Quotes
#1. There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Samuel Richardson
#2. Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#3. It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
John Le Carre
#5. His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin
Thomas Jefferson
#6. It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.
Christopher Hitchens
#7. Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles
#8. She was through the doors before I recognized her, which was pardonable, for Holly and libraries were not an easy association to make. I let curiosity guide me between the lions, debating on the way whether I should admit following her or pretend coincidence.
Truman Capote
#9. I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency.
W. Somerset Maugham
#10. A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
Karl Kraus
#11. It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#13. Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
Thomas Jefferson
#14. Mr. Tracy Tupman - the too susceptible Tupman, who to the wisdom and experience of maturer years superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy in the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses - love.
Charles Dickens
#15. She would not allow someone for whom she had so little regard to have a negative effect on her mood at the start of a new week. -Pardonable Lies
Jacqueline Winspear
#16. Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.
Lord Chesterfield
#17. If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men, as far as the world is concerned, but faithful friends, loyal comrades.
Archibald Rutledge
#18. If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
William Congreve
#19. There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
Agnes Repplier
#20. Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.
Kevin Durant
#21. There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.
David Whyte
#22. You see the world as fixed and finite, and it is not. It is liquid and ever moving, and one act can change everything.
A.C. Gaughen
#23. I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.
William Devane
#24. If nothing else came out of all of this debacle over Obamacare, one thing that should is a class-action lawsuit against the University of Chicago Law School for people that had Obama as their constitutional law professor.
Louie Gohmert
#25. I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.
James Lankford
