Top 65 Unpardonable Quotes
#1. In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or, as it might be phrased in Latin form, no child's behind left.
Christopher Hitchens
#2. If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
Charles Edward Merriam
#3. Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
Thomas Huxley
#4. I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
Amelia Barr
#5. I'm truthful
which is very nearly unpardonable in civilized society.
Lisa Kleypas
#6. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
Oscar Wilde
#7. Cannabis, just like morphine, has its usage in medicine. It's unpardonable that authorities forbid sick people access to this medicament and in majesty of law permit to sell cigarettes.
Jerzy Vetulani
#8. She was the lightning, he was the thunder. Together they were a force of nature itself, so beautiful, yet full of unpardonable destruction.
K.F. Breene
#9. The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley
#10. The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.
Galen Starr Ross
#11. Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.
Jean-Baptiste De La Salle
#12. There is only one unpardonable sin, and that is to withhold pardon from others.
Robert Farrar Capon
#13. The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.
Lee De Forest
#14. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Victor Hugo
#15. I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.
Brigham Young
#16. Hotel's full up, I'm afraid, Mr. Roper, Jonathan rehearsed in another last-ditch effort to fend off the inevitable. Herr Meister is desolated. A temporary clerk has made an unpardonable error. However, we have managed to obtain rooms for you at the Baur au Lac, et cetera.
John Le Carre
#17. Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.
Rebecca West
#18. It is to be hoped you are not 'intellectual,' which is an unpardonable trait
Mary MacLane
#19. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton
#20. Cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.
Rae Foley
#21. I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It's an unpardonable sin as far as I'm concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.
Anthony Bourdain
#22. How unpardonable would it have been in you to have turned out a blockhead. How
David McCullough
#23. The unpardonable sin involves the total and irrevocable rejection of Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#24. Convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.
Jane Austen
#26. It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#27. And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
Jean Cocteau
#28. With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing - for she had done mischief.
Jane Austen
#29. There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#31. There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless and purposeless life. Helen Keller
Robin S. Sharma
#32. It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
Agnes Repplier
#34. My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.
William Styron
#35. I often think of death.
True.
Suicide is a reasonable option.
True.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I stare at the question.
My sins are unpardonable.
I leave it blank.
James Frey
#36. Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#37. He was, however, obliged to leave the university, because Nathaniel's story had created a sensation, and it was universally considered a quite unpardonable trick to smuggle a wooden doll into respectful tea parties in place of a living person.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#38. 'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#39. To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.
James Lee Burke
#40. Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
Morrissey
#41. We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
Eduardo Galeano
#43. The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
Aleister Crowley
#44. A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
Edmund Burke
#45. (in some cases) ... a good memory is unpardonable
Jane Austen
#46. But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.
Jane Austen
#47. Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."
Richard Dawkins
#48. In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#49. The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Emma Goldman
#50. What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.
Bartolome De Las Casas
#51. People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.
James Whistler
#52. Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce
#53. She'd been real melancholy in the fall - religious melancholy - it ran in her family. Her father worried so much over believing that he had committed the unpardonable sin that he died in the asylum.
L.M. Montgomery
#54. Children never forget injustice. They forgive heaps of things grown-up people mind; but that sin is the unpardonable sin.
Virginia Woolf
#55. The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I do not curse you for being cruel. I do not curse you (though I might) for being kind. I curse you for being safe!
G.K. Chesterton
#56. I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.
Elbert Hubbard
#57. All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
Saint Basil
#58. There is only one unpardonable sin
deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
Truman Capote
#59. Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.
Theodore Roosevelt
#60. Mercy is a vice, a pretension to powers we do not have. Those who give mercy commit an unpardonable offense to the victim. And that is not our duty here on earth.
Mario Puzo
#61. The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.
Germaine Greer
#62. Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.
Henry Handel Richardson
#63. When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.
Ichabod Spencer
#64. Now listen to me, Buddy: there is only one unpardonable sin - deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. That, never.
Truman Capote
#65. Four Unpardonable Sins of a Communicator: being unprepared, uncommitted, uninteresting, or uncomfortable.
John C. Maxwell
