19 Metaphors for pardon

Pardon your slave's want of respect, but to leave their homes, and wander from forest to forest, is the occupation of hermits, but not that of kings.

Pardon is one mercy, and intimation of it to the soul is another distinct mercy, and separable from it: shall we therefore say, we have not gotten the first, because we have not gotten both?

Pardon is the remission of punishment, but does not abolish right.

And thus speaking to Mark Anthony; If man were placed above the reach of insult, To pardon were no virtue.

Pardon and Reconciliation are all the Penitent Daughter requests, and all that I contend for in her Behalf; and in this Case I may use the Saying of an eminent Wit, who, upon some great Men pressing him to forgive his Daughter who had married against his Consent, told them he could refuse nothing to their Instances, but that he would have them remember there was Difference between Giving and Forgiving.

Pardon must always be an act of God's free grace, unmerited at our hands, and procured alone through the merits of Christ.

"The Pardon of Maynooth" was from that day forth a well-known Irish equivalent for the gallows!

Pardon, greate Caesar: The intent was merriment, the reason this: A true brow bends to see good things a misse, Men turned to beasts, and such are you mine Host; Ile show you else, you are a Goate, look here!

Pardon, great poet, that I dare to name The unnumbered beauties of thy verse with blame; Thy fault is only wit in its excess, But wit like thine in any shape will please.

Pardons, especially in cases of duelling, had been marketable articles in the last reigns, and there could not but be a sigh for such conveniences.

For, as you know, pardon is not the extinguishing of a man's past; that cannot be done.

His lank gloomy figure rises before me now, and I hear his deep melancholy voice, as, touching his hat respectfully, be said: Beg pardon, sir; is this Mr. Glenarm?

Pardon is an operation in God's mind concerning myself; you cannot pardon yourself.

Pardon, greate Caesar: The intent was merriment, the reason this: A true brow bends to see good things a misse, Men turned to beasts, and such are you mine Host; Ile show you else, you are a Goate, look here!

To call it the Queen's pardon was a simple figure of speech.

Pardon me, since I have said so much already, was there some argument or contention in the housebetween you and Ned, for instance?

" "Beg pardon, monsieur, but if you are going to vote, it will be ten francs!"

My sins are forgiven, not may bethat pardon is a glorious possibility onlybut are forgiven, not will be forgiven at some future time.

We would not think, that upon our taking of this course, we shall be instantly freed from challenges, because of those sins, for pardoning whereof we take this course; nor should we think, that because challenges remain, that therefore there is no pardon had, or that this is not the way to pardon; for, as we shall show afterward, pardon is one thing, and intimation of pardon is another thing.

19 Metaphors for  pardon