Pardon Quotes
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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— "The Sentinel" (1948), originally titled "Sentinel of Eternity" this is the short story which later provided the fundamental ideas for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) written by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick.
" And now that Thou has restored to me the knowledge of Thyself, O Lord, let thy pardon fall on me, since Thy infinite mercy is not better known in anything than in pardoning a Dismas (the traditional name of the good thief) on the Cross and a Dominicus Corea on the gallows. If in Hell there is room for sinners, in Heaven also there is room for penitents."
dominicus corea— The last address of King Dominicus Corea (Edirille Rala) on the gallows in Colombo before he was executed by the Portuguese - as quoted in:
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,And proves, by thumping on your back,His sense of your great merit,Is such a friend that one had needBe very much his friend indeedTo pardon or to bear it.
william cowper— On Friendship.
On this score, I will briefly address the re-entry of Biafra as a talking drum in our recent polity. A minister of state (Mrs. Dupe Adelaja) had the recklessness to say that Biafran soldiers cannot enjoy retirement benefits, not minding, for instance, the reality that some of them were Nigerian soldiers before the emergence of Biafra and that pardon has been granted to all ex-Biafran soldiers.
chuba okadigbo— Address to the December 2001 debates concerning Biafra, USAfrica Online
pardon my long preamble. It's like a chorus girl's tightsit touches everything and covers nothing.
— During an after-dinner speech. Attributed.
The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.
wystan hugh auden— 1937 Spain.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon, who have done the wrong.
john dryden— 1670 The Conquest of Granada, pt.2, act1, sc.2.
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.
richard reynolds— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 273.
I expect eternal life, not as a reward of merit, but a pure act of bounty. Detesting myself in every view I can take, I fly to the righteousness and atonement of my great Redeemer for pardon and salvation; this is my only consolation and hope. "Enter not into judgment, O Lord, with Thy servant; for in Thy sight shall no flesh be justified."
elizabeth rowe— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 231.
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood Over thy wounds now do I prophesy.
— Julius Caesar, Act III, scene 1, line 254.
Where a person interposes his interest and good offices to procure a pardon, it ought to be done gratuitously and not for money.
— Lord Eldon, C.J., Norman r. Cole (1801), 3 Esp. 253.
Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks isgood, and to forgive.
algernon charles swinburne— 1878 Poems and Ballads (2nd edn),'AveAtqueVale', stanza17.
It was by some mercy of God that thou wast gentle to them; hadst thou been harsh and hard of heart, they would have scattered from about thee. So pardon them, and pray forgiveness for them, and take counsel with them in the affair; and when thou art resolved, put thy trust in God.
The Koran— Sura 3, l.159.
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— P. 540. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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.
pierre stephen robert payne— Lord Acton, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky, p. 180
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.
wystan hugh auden— "The Prince's Dog", p. 201
Aucune haine ne saurait s’assouvir en ce monde ni dans l’autre, et la haine qu’on se porte à soi-même est probablement celle entre toutes pour laquelle il n’est pas de pardon:;!
Georges Bernanos— There's no hatred that can ever be satisfied either in this world or the next, and the hatred that one has for oneself is probably the one for which there is no forgiveness.The curé of Fenouille to the mayor, p.208
Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me.
john betjeman— "In Westminster Abbey" line 1, from Old Lights for New Chancels (1940).
When it comes to matters in which he had some control, such as legislation brought before Parliament, his record has been recognized over the centuries as significant and enlightened. By contrast with kings before and after him, he indulged in no financial extortion, no religious persecution, no violation of sanctuary, no burning at the stake, no killing of women, no torture or starvation and no cynical breach of promise, pardon or safe-conduct in order to entrap a subject.
richard iii of england— Annette Carson (2009), Richard III: The Maligned King, The History Press, page 10
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— Vol. I, Ch. III, The World As Representation (Second Aspect)
Those who understand evil pardon it.
George Bernard Shaw— #167. (Maxims for Revolutionists (1903))
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Revenge (1625).
We cannot pardon. We are to say what we take the law to be: if we do not speak our real opinions, we prevaricate with God and our own consciences.
— Lord Mansfield, Case of John Wilkes (1763), 4 Burr. Part IV. 2562.
It is the duty of the Lord Chancellor's place, if he thought it not a good pardon, to inform the King of it.
— Per Serjeant Ellis, Proceedings against Thomas Earl of Danby for high treason (1678—1685), 11 How. St. Tr. 773.
I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act V, scene 3, line 131
Behold affronts and indignities which the world thinks it right never to pardon, which the Son of God endures with a Divine meekness! Let us cast at the feet of Jesus that false honor, that quick sense of affronts, which exaggerates every thing, and pardons nothing, and, above all, that devilish determination in resenting injuries.
— Queen Elizabeth, p. 252 (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)
"What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!"
— Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices.
You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.
— Who: Charles II, son of the above, 1685
