Forgiveness Quotes

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”

“This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.”

“Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.”

“My rage is gone,And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.Beat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully,Trail your steel spikes. Though in this city heHath widowed and unchilded many a one,Which to this hour bewail the injury,Yet he shall have a noble memory.Assist.”

“Pray you now, forget and forgive.”

“Pardon's the word to all.”

“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.”

“Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.”

“Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.”

“Flesh and blood,You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,Unnatural though thou art.”

“By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love”

“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.”

“The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.”

“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”

“The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.”

“If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.”

“Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.”

“So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!”

“As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.”

“One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”

“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.”

“Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.”

“The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you.”