Bygones Quotes

• Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Acceptance, Lost, Sail

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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• Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from,
  We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Gun, Giving

  Song: The Heart Pt. 2

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• Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.

  Lesley Kagen

  Divine, Let Bygones Be Bygones

  Lesley Kagen (2007). “Whistling In the Dark”, p.154, Penguin

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• But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forgiveness, Fighting, Past

  Abraham Lincoln (1894). “Complete Works”

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• Let bygones be bygones.

  Christina Rossetti

  Forgiveness, Let Bygones Be Bygones

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.123, OUP Oxford

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• Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forgiveness, Past, Differences

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.88, Fordham Univ Press

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• I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forgiveness, Wish, Looks

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• Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Views, Judging, Forever

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• I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling me how rivalries should be. I asked him if he ever disliked anybody he played against, and he told me, 'No, never,' and he told me that I should shake Kobe Bryant's hand and let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Hands, Order

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• I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts. I'll be watching.... Mwah! -A

  Sara Shepard

  Hurt, Sorry, Fun

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