# Quotes about forgiveness - Quotes: 8 - Authors: 6 - Broader topic: [Quotes about relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness ## Quotes > "My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you." [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/my-object-then.md) Topics: [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md) > "I remember hearing you once say, Mr. Darcy, that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment once created was unappeasable. You are very cautious, I suppose, as to its being created." [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/i-remember-hearing.md) Topics: [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md) > And what if I don't want forgiveness? [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/and-what-if-i-dont.md) Topics: [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md) > If one by one we counted people out > > For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long > > To get so we had no one left to live with. > > For to be social is to be forgiving. [Robert Frost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost.md) · [New Hampshire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/if-one-by-one.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md) > My general meaning touching the three virtues of which I have spoken will now, I hope, be sufficiently clear. They are all three paradoxical, they are all three practical, and they are all three paradoxical because they are practical. it is the stress of ultimate need, and a terrible knowledge of things as they are, which led men to set up these riddles, and to die for them. Whatever may be the meaning of the contradiction, it is the fact that the only kind of hope that is of any use in a battle is a hope that denies arithmetic. Whatever may be the meaning of the contradiction, it is the fact that the only kind of charity which any weak spirit wants, or which any generous spirit feels, is the charity which forgives the sins that are like scarlet. Whatever may be the meaning of faith, it must always mean a certainty about something we cannot prove. Thus, for instance, we believe by faith in the existence of other people. [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [Heretics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/my-general-meaning.md) Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md) > Justice consists in finding out a certain thing due to a certain man and giving it to him. Temperance consists in finding out the proper limit of a particular indulgence and adhering to that. But charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all. [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [Heretics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/justice-consists-in-finding.md) Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [hope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hope.md), [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md) > 'I'm sorry,' he said. 'You're Commander Poole, of course. But I'm sure we've never met before.'...He was glad of the encounter, and was pleased to know that Danil was back in normal society. Whether his original crime had been axe-murders or overdue library books should no longer be the concern of his one-time employer; the account had been settled, the books closed. p. 73 [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [3001 The Final Odyssey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/3001-the-final-odyssey.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/3001-the-final-odyssey/im-sorry-he-said.md) Topics: [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md) > Existence is so bitter for every one of us! Ought we not to forgive others much, my friend, if we wish to merit forgiveness ourselves? [Emile Zola](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola.md) · [Nana](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola/nana.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola/nana/existence-is-so-bitter.md) Topics: [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md)