“He has lived to see Sex replaced by Fat as the Ultimate Sin, and at the annual shows of the Ontario Society of Water-colourists pictures of Christ Forgiving the Woman Taken in Adultery have given way to a new theme — Christ Forgiving the Woman Surprised in Laura Secord's.”
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)
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Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Actually from Frederic Harrison's essay "Ruskin as Prophet", in his Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Other Literary Estimates (1899).
Misattributed
“Forgiveness: Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) German-American actress and singer
Marlene Dietrich's ABC https://books.google.com/books?id=u7x5UYHMs0IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Marlene+intitle:Dietrich%27s+intitle:abc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv7qiV8cPfAhWinuAKHcZLAWQQ6AEIKjAA#v=snippet&q=forgiveness&f=false (1962)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Discipleship (1937), Discipleship and the Cross, p. 88
“Nature is not as forgiving as Christ.”
Hyman George Rickover (1900–1986) United States admiral
The Rickover Effect (1992)
“God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Society and Solitude
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Samuel I. Prime (1812–1885) American clergyman, traveler, and writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 232.
