Top 100 Quotes About Pardon
#1. You are, however, surprisingly light of touch."
"Pardon?"
"The way you're holding my hand. I always thought you'd be more of a mauler. Like a diseased wolf chewing the knuckles off me fist."
"That's very nice."
"Not really."
"I was being sarcastic."
"Oh. I see. Where are we?
G.A. Aiken
#3. In all the excitement, I seem to have put my foot under yours," he said. "I do beg your pardon.
Loretta Chase
#4. MAN: Do you have black and white film posters?
BOOKSELLER: Yes, we do. They're over here.
MAN: Do you have any posters of Adolf Hitler?
BOOKSELLER: Pardon?
MAN: Adolf Hitler.
BOOKSELLER: Well, he wasn't a film star, was he.
MAN: Yes, he was. He was American. Jewish, I think ...
Jen Campbell
#5. Grief's a bastard, it really is - pardon my French. It makes everything else harder.
David Mitchell
#6. To the men and women who own men and women
those of us meant to be lovers
we will not pardon you
for wasting our bodies and time
Leonard Cohen
#7. The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
Benjamin Whichcote
#8. I should say something, but what? Pardon me, Father, but it's our brother she wants to marry?
George R R Martin
#9. Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.
John Bunyan
#10. I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad," if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#11. It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust wholly in the merits of the promised Saviour, if they would be accepted of God.
Ellen G. White
#12. They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for which there is no pardon. She had struck a white man. She had not killed him, however. In her clumsy rage she had only managed to gash his shoulder
Maryse Conde
#13. We must pardon everyone because if not, it will be like we will have to punish all the population. We must pardon everyone because all ethnic groups did bad acts. (Thirty-eight-year-old female, Nyanza-Lac)
Peter Uvin
#14. Begging your pardon, princess. Did I neglect to pull my forelock?"
She held up a hand.Her temper was a vile thing when loose, and the drumming in her head warned her it was very close to springing free.
"I'm already annoyed.It won't take much to push me to furious.
Nora Roberts
#15. Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
Herman Melville
#18. No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
Louisa May Alcott
#19. Are you sure you want to come, Mat?" Rand asked.
Mat shrugged and affected a grin, not a very confident one. "Who could pass up a chance to see bloody Rhuidean?" Egwene raised her eyebrows at him. "Oh, pardon my language, Aes Sedai. I've heard you say as bad, and for less cause, I'll wager.
Robert Jordan
#20. Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
Sophocles
#21. There is no law that sermons shall be the preacher's own, but there is an eternal law against all manner of humbug. Pardon the word.
George MacDonald
#22. Make my happiness - I will make yours. God pardon me!" he subjoined ere long; "and man meddle not with me: I have her and will hold her.
Charlotte Bronte
#23. I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
George Eliot
#24. Like a wombat in a cornfield." Jo
"Beg pardon?" Cadegan
"You're not the only one who can throw together random words that make no sense and use them in a sentence like they do." Jo
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. No person can be his own saviour ... An individual must come before God in penitence, confess his sin and obtain pardon from a merciful God who repudiates sin but shows covenant love to the sinner.
R.K. Harrison
#26. White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#27. But I wasn't happy ... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt].
'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace ...
The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me ... three more men does make a lot of difference.
John Flanagan
#28. Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.
William Shakespeare
#29. God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#30. What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
Samuel Johnson
#31. Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.
Brian Tracy
#32. The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#33. You don't like people seeing you." My eyes met him then. "I beg your pardon?" His eyes roamed my fresh face. "You can't hide behind makeup. You can try, but you won't succeed. Not with me." He paused then said, "I see you.
Belle Aurora
#34. How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?
Tennessee Williams
#35. You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality.' Pardon the pun.
Christine O'Donnell
#36. You shouldn't have laughed."
"Pardon?"
"I might have let you be, but you laughed
Kristen Ashley
#37. There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.
J. Vernon McGee
#38. Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout."
"Whithout what?
Jonathan Stroud
#39. For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#40. Pardon me, is this some kind of social experiment? You want me to get a hundred and forty-four Samoans and cram them into your cabin with a case of whiskey?
Kevin Hearne
#41. Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.
Criss Jami
#42. If He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understand why we have been so made, and when we throw ourselves into the dust before Him, and pray for help and pardon, surely
surely He will lend an ear!
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#43. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.
Charles Brent
#45. Don't you think we shall all be kinder to one another? I hope one's class will matter less and one's convictions more. I hope we might be more inclined to pardon one another for our errors with both.
Chris Cleave
#46. Love truth, but pardon error.
Voltaire
#47. Truly, O Lord, You are a God "ready to pardon!" Therefore will we acknowledge our iniquities!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#48. The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
W. H. Auden
#49. Mr. Ford's decision to pardon Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he might have been charged with because of Watergate is seen by many historians as the central event of his 896-day presidency.
Scott Shane
#50. Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.
Henry David Thoreau
#51. -What's the good news?
-Pardon?
-You said the bad news is we're going the wrong way.
-There isn't any good news. Just because there's bad news doesn't mean there's good news, too.
David Benioff
#52. Promises, is very much hidden. While trusting in their Savior for pardon and for help, and seeking to some extent to obey Him, they have hardly realized to what closeness of union, to what intimacy
Andrew Murray
#53. As I said, the good die young, and the motherfuckers go on forever, pardon my French.
Stephen Hunter
#54. We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
Douglas Horton
#55. Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Philip Bliss
#56. If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.
Blaise Pascal
#57. We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.
Cindy Sheehan
#59. Pete," I say. "Beg your pardon?" He glares at me. "My name is Pete," I say. "We should probably be on a first name basis if you're going to get intimate enough to chop my nuts off." I motion to his hatchet. He blows out a quick breath, grins, and shakes his head.
Tammy Falkner
#60. Sir 3:4 He that loveth God, shall obtain pardon for his sins by prayer,
Various
#61. If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.
Johnny Hunt
#62. I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.
Arthur C. Clarke
#63. Pardon of sin must ever be an act of pure mercy, and therefore to that attribute the awakened sinner flies.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#64. Are you mine?"
A shocked, "Pardon me?"
"Did Lydie give you to me, babe," he explained.
"Well ... yes.
Kristen Ashley
#65. Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,
why the judge does not dismiss his case,
why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.
Henry David Thoreau
#66. For sin bust be punished either by the penitent sinner or by God, his judge; and God, who has promised pardon to the penitent sinner, has nowhere promised to one who delays his conversion a morrow to do penance in.
Augustine Of Hippo
#67. Begging your pardon,' groused the Yeti, 'but I believe you haven't the first idea of what's happened to me or the weather in Fairyland or the least fact about the least thing in the known universe. Just my opinion, of course.
Catherynne M Valente
#68. Where the devil did you get her?"
"I beg your pardon?"
"I said: the weather is getting better."
"Seems so."
"Who's the lassie?"
"My daughter."
"You lie - she's not."
"I beg your pardon?"
"I said: July was hot.
Vladimir Nabokov
#69. He gave me a feral grin. "Like what you see, dove?" "Nope." I hadn't had sex in eighteen months. Pardon me while I struggle with my hormone overload.
Ilona Andrews
#70. URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.
Ambrose Bierce
#72. All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.
Robert Payne
#73. I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.
Antonio Banderas
#74. Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.
Publilius Syrus
#75. You're breaking a lot of rules, Miss Singer." "You're the prince. You can just pardon me.
Kiera Cass
#76. It is not a rare occurrence among intimate friends that their friendship is strengthened when one has displeased the other but has afterwards humbled himself and asked pardon.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#77. A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.
Joseph Alleine
#78. When you sincerely embrace Jesus as your Saviour, and rest on His atonement for pardon, when you look to Him for daily direction, lean on Him for support, and are joined to Him in heart union, then you may be sure that you have got the everlasting rock bed underneath you.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#79. She imagined herself whirling breathlessly beneath the flashing lights of some impossibly chic Manhattan disco. Suddenly, a hand touches her arm. She turns. 'Pardon me,' Mick Jagger says, 'I believe this next dance is mine.
Francine Pascal
#80. I'm not particularly fond of the Summer bitch, pardon my French,
Julie Kagawa
#81. This grace does not undo a tragedy or pardon a wrong, but it becomes the first step toward a more hopeful future.
Shane Claiborne
#82. All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
Oscar Wilde
#83. Oh? And what was I to say? I beg your pardon, Lord Wriothesly, but your wife seems to have acquired a distinct liking for my husband's cock. Would you mind kindly retrieving her to your own bed?
Ashley March
#84. Overheard at O'Banion's Beer Emporium: "Pardon me, darlin', but I'm writin' a telephone book. C'n I have yer number?
Henry D. Spalding
#86. There are two sorts of sick conciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
J.I. Packer
#87. My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.
Marcel Proust
#88. My work expresses an infatuation with human beings. I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.
Rebecca West
#89. God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.
Thomas Brooks
#90. It made me feel almost giddy, like a high-school girl watching the captain of the football team worked up his nerve to ask for a date. You mean me? Little old me? Oh my stars, really? Pardon me while I flutter my eyelashes.
Jeff Lindsay
#91. Your very great pardon, Cousin," said Sphene, "but this having meetings so we can plan to have meetings business is bullshit. I want to talk about ancillaries.
Ann Leckie
#92. I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
Abraham Lincoln
#93. God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.
Edward Reynolds
#94. But - pardon me if I seem inquisitive - are you not all rather - ahem! rather unusual?" asked the Woggle-Bug, looking from one to another with unconcealed interest. "Not more so than yourself," answered the Scarecrow. "Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.
L. Frank Baum
#95. There is only one unpardonable sin, and that is to withhold pardon from others.
Robert Farrar Capon
#96. Begging everyone's pardon," said Big Konar, "but it ain't polite to have an argument if nobody else knows what the fuck you're arguing about.
Scott Lynch
#97. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
William Shakespeare
#98. Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
George Washington
#99. Sidonie," he said, his voice strangely hoarse. "You are the most - I mean, you are so ... I find you ... ah, devil take it! Never mind!"
"I beg your pardon?"
"Nothing," he growled. "I misspoke. What did you say about oranges?
Liz Carlyle
#100. The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
Abraham Lincoln
