Quotes About Forgiveness

Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

Let go of the past because its remembrance will give you pleasure.

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him.

no es justo publicar las faltas del pasado de una persona, ignorando si se ha corregido.

But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Her heart was made for love and kindness, not for resentment.

she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook…

Hubiera podido fácilmente perdonar su orgullo, si no hubiera sido porque se metió con el mío Elizabeth Bennet.

Si entonces no se acerca a mí, pensaba, me olvidaré de él para siempre.

Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

She will be more hurt by it, for Robert always was her favourite. —She will be more hurt by it, and on the same principle will forgive him much sooner.

I know I shall probably never see him again, but I cannot bear to think that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.

We shall be on good terms again; though we can never be what we once were to each other.

Let me be able to fancy that a better knowledge of my heart, and of my present feelings, will draw from her a more spontaneous, more natural, more gentle, less dignified, forgiveness. Tell her of my misery and my penitence—tell her that my heart was never inconstant to her, and if you will, that at this moment she is dearer to me than ever.

Dare not say that men forget sooner than women, that his love has an earlier death. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Je lui aurais volontiers pardonné son orgueil s'il n'avait tant mortifié le mien.

Y con facilidad perdonaría su orgullo si no hubiera mortificado el mío.

Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Mr. Darcy, I could honestly forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.

No consigo olvidar las locuras y los vicios de otros tan pronto como debiera, ni las ofensas que se me hacen. Mis sentimientos no se modifican cad vez que se intenta influir sobre ellos. Quizá pueda decirse que tiendo al resentimiento. Cuando pierdo mi buena opinión sobre alguien o algo, perdido está para siempre

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.

todos nos gusta dar lecciones, pero sólo enseñamos lo que no merece la pena saber. Perdóname