Sorry Quotes

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

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
-Margaret Laurence

True friends stab you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
-William Blake

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

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
-Grace Hopper

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

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

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
-Isaac Friedmann

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-Paul Boese

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

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
-Isaac Friedmann

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

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

An apology is a good way to have the last word.
-Unknown

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough

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

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