Pardon Quotes

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

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.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.