A Quote by Malcolm Forbes

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

Malcolm Forbes

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Malcolm Forbes
American - Publisher
August 19, 1919 - February 24, 1990

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

Gene Wolfe

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

Tennessee Williams

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

Faina Ranevskaya

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Rae Foley

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Fulton J. Sheen

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

Graham Greene

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Frederick Buechner

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

Christopher Hitchens

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

George Santayana

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Margaret Mitchell

Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

John Eisenhower

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

Neil Kinnock

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

Neil Kinnock

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

Fulton J. Sheen

And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.