To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

Plautus

Forgiveness is better than revenge.

Pittacus of Mitylene

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

John Milton

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!

Omar Khayyam

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Thomas a Kempis

Know all and you will pardon all.

Thomas a Kempis

The offender never pardons.

George Herbert

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last.

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Pierre Corneille

The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.

Lady Elizabeth Carew

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.

E. H. Chapin