Kevin McCloud Quotes

Retaliation is sometimes mercy, mercy to both parties

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

Amnesty—an act through which sovereigns forgive the injustices they have committed.

A murder may be forgiven, an affront never

Revenge is easy, but forgiveness requires courage.

...we must forgive him who repents, and asketh pardon for what is past; having first taken caution for the time to come

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

France does not practice revenge.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

He who believes that new benefits make great men forget old injuries deceives himself.

Blood can not restore blood and government should not act for revenge.

It is good to forget one's anger against one's wrongdoer, whoever he may be, for countless number of evils will quickly grow from this anger.

I am not a man who wants revenge.

I always struggled with the idea of forgiving my enemies.

We must forgive our enemies.

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.