Sorry Quotes

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
-Isaac Friedmann

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
-Stephen Levine

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

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

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

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein

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