Sorry Quotes

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
-Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
- Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain

True friends stab you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
-Isaac Friedmann

Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
-Dale Carnegie

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
-Red Auerbach

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
-H. G. Wells

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
-Charles Osgood

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Unknown

When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.
-Dan Heist

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
-Chinese Proverb

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
-Isaac Friedmann

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
-Lynn Johnston

Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.
-Unknown

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck