Apology Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Life, Sorry, Humorous

  The Man Upstairs (1914) title story

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• A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Hurt

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• No sensible person ever made an apology.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Made, Sensible, Persons

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• An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

  Lynn Johnston

  Im Sorry, I Am Sorry, Apologizing

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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• Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.

  Rachel Vincent

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Chocolate

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• Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Inspirational, Sorry, Thinking

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.113, University of Illinois Press

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• Yep, ouch. He and apologies didn’t get along.

  Larissa Ione

  Ouch

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• A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sorry, Men, Forever

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• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

  Plato

  Im Sorry, Men, Knowing Nothing

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, Xist Publishing

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• You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

  E. W. Howe

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, I Am Sorry

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• I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Years, Good Movie, Hollywood

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• We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

  David Letterman

  Working Very Hard, Secret, Chinese

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• If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

  Burt Bacharach

  Country, Boys, Humanity

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• 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

  Funny, God, Im Sorry

  Notebooks ch. 14 (1912)

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• Friends are God's apology for relations.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Friendship, Family, Im Sorry

  In Michael Holroyd Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1970) p. 12

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• I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.

  Anthony Weiner

  Mistake, Wife, Today

  "In Politics: Weiner's Fall And Bachmann's Rise". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 17, 2011.

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• An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

  Steve Martin

  Im Sorry, Gentleman, I Am Sorry

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• The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Teamwork, Im Sorry

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• 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

  Atheism, Faults, Belief

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• It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

  Archibald Alexander

  Im Sorry, Heart, Evil

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

  Chris Shays

  Firsts, Scientist

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• I am not very moved by historical apologies.

  Tom Paulin

  Historical, Moved

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• It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Character, Apologizing

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

  Ivan Lendl

  Sports, Strange, Advocating

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