Sorry Quotes, Apology Sayings
Play fair. Don’t hit people. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
- Anonymous
Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
- Anonymous
Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ”I’m sorry.”
- Anonymous
More men are sorry for speaking, than keeping silence.
- Anonymous
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
- Anonymous
My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
- Anonymous
Never say sorry it’s a sign of weakness.
- John Wayne
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
- Anonymous
If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
- Anonymous
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
- Douglas Horton
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
- Ovid
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
- Benjamin Disraeli
An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.
- Robin Quivers
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
- Tryon Edwards
When you realize you’ve made a mistake, make amends immediately. It’s easier to eat crow while it’s still warm.
- Dan Heist
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
- Lynn Johnston
First off, I’m not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.
- Christopher Shays
True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
- Mignon McLaughlin
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
- Leon Uris
I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.
- Ivan Lendl
When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win.
- Lao Tzu
It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
- Socrates
Apologizing – a very desperate habit – one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
- P.G. Wodehouse
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
- Steve Martin
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
- John Milton
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
- Samuel Butler
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
- Red Auerbach
Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
- Kitty Kelley
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.
- Erich Segal
One who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.
- H.L. Mencken
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
I can make no apologies for following my heart.
- Gavin Rossdale
Saying sorry shows weakness, but the weakness is what we need to get stronger in time…
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
- King Charles I
I don’t ask for an apology because it’s only tomorrow’s fish-and-chip paper.
- Tracey Emin


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