Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt.

In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

To tolerate is to insult.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Don't talk to us like we ignint!

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without.

On those days when we're not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we're actually saying is, "Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the Savior today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today." Perhaps those are the times when we need to pray the hardest, the times it becomes clear that a change in behavior is not enough--that we must have a change in nature.

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by rendering selfless service. . . .

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.