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Quotes About Regret

Sorry about your sausage dog.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
He seemed genuinely astonished. You admire me? Yes, she said gravely. All of us do things we regret--that's part of being human. And sometimes, I think, moral quality reveals itself not so much in what we do, but in what we later say about what we have done....
~ Alexander McCall Smith
But we all waste opportunities,' said Domenica. Every single one of us. Every young person does it. It's because we think we have so much time, and then, when we realise that our time is finite, it's too late.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I like you when you're algebraic, said Ulf--and immediately regretted it. It was a flirtatious remark--describing somebody as algebraic was undoubtedly to cross a line. You would not normally describe an ordinary friend as algebraic, and then say that you liked her that way.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
He thought of all the ways that so many people felt about life. Life was a matter of regret--how could it be anything else? We knew that we would lose the things we loved; we knew that sooner or later we would lose everything, and beyond that was a darkness, a state of non-being that we found hard to imagine, let alone accept.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It's easy to be foolish... It's dead simple, really. All you have to be is human and to allow yourself to do the human things, like fall in love with somebody when you know that there's no point and when you know, too, that it's just going to make you unhappy.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later...
~ Alexander McCall Smith
She wanted everything back, as we do sometimes in our irrationality and regret; we want it all back.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
But she had never once regretted what she had done under the influence of tea, and would not start doing so now.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
we all have some things we are ashamed of.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
That was always the case, she thought: the perfect riposte, the mot juste, inevitably occurred well after the event, and one could not really write to somebody and tell them what you would have said had you thought about it in time.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
If she had listened to her father, if she had listened to the cousin's husband, she would never have married Note and the years of unhappiness would never have occurred. But they did, because she was headstrong, as everyone is at the age of twenty, and when we simply cannot see, however much we may think we can . The world is full of twenty-year-olds, she thought, all of them blind.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
You'd think he'd look more ashamed of himself, said Bertie. You'd think that he'd look more ashamed of being a Campbell.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I heard him say that he knew that he had been very stupid and that he would not be stupid again. Those were his very words, Mma, and I wrote them down on a piece of paper which we can keep in the office here and take out and wave at him some time in the future if we need to do so.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
My old friend," he began, "is down below, his face we'll see no more, for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4
~ Alexander McCall Smith
people are very slow to say sorry. I
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I saw the snake myself, and I am not one to exaggerate. It was two metres long, at the very least. And it was a mamba. I know those snakes. It was a mamba—not a hyperbole." "I would not like to be bitten by a hyperbole," muttered Mma Ramotswe. She could not stop herself; she had to say this, although more or less immediately she regretted it. "They are very dangerous, Mma," said Mma Potokwane.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Perhaps they could get married in heaven, if he left it too late. That would certainly be cheaper.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I like you when you're algebraic," said Ulf—and immediately regretted it. It was a flirtatious remark—describing somebody as algebraic was undoubtedly to cross a line. You would not normally describe an ordinary friend as algebraic, and then say that you liked her that way. He saw the effect on Anna, and his regret deepened. "Algebraic?" she said, half coyly. "Well, I'm very happy to enter into any equation.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
As they left the shop, Mma Ramotswe made amends and told Mma Makutsi that she really thought the blue shoes very beautiful. There was no point in disapproving of a purchase once the deed had been done.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
He who has lived and thought can never Help in his soul despising men, He who has felt will be forever Haunted by days he can't regain. For him there are no more enchantments, Him does the serpent of remembrance, Him does repentance always gnaw. All this will frequently afford A great delight to conversations.
~ Alexander Pushkin
He who has lived and thought can't help despising people in his soul; him who has felt disturbs the ghost of irrecoverable days; for him there are no more enchantments; him does the snake of memories, him does repentance bite.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Eu te-am iubit ÅŸi poate c? iubirea În suflet înc? nu s-a stins de tot; Dar nici neliniÅŸte ÅŸi nici tristeÅ£e Ea nu îÅ£i va mai da, aÅŸa socot. F?r? cuvinte te-am iubit, f?r? n?dejde, De gelozie, de sfial? chinuit. Dea Domnul s? mai fii cîndva iubit? AÅŸa adînc, aÅŸa gingaÅŸ cum te-am iubit.
~ Alexander Pushkin
I loved you; even now I must confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue-tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I love you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.
~ Alexander Pushkin