Billy Wilder Quotes

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

The more people love you, the more there's going to be people that hate you.

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

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.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

The people who feel the most strongly about something will turn on you the most vociferously if they feel you've let them down.

To have done more hurt to a man than he can, or is willing to expiate, inclineth the doer to hate the sufferer. For he must expect revenge or forgiveness; both of which are hateful.

I feel as though I'm constantly defending myself. I'm up against challengers from the ballroom world, from the dance world, people on the couch who hate what I'm saying about their favourite celebrity. Then you're up against the press, who will always want to put you in a box.

I regret hurting my wife and my child and abandoning them. I regret the pain I caused them.

I've given up trying to reason with people who despise me.

I was brought up in church, but when I confessed my errors, they put me out.

The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self-imprisonment in its own violent cultures.

For some reason New York is the epicentre for people who hate me. Maybe this is another reason why I left New York but I get more hatred directed towards me there than any other place.

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.