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Quotes About Regret

for that there was no atonement; but though forgiveness was impossible, forgetfulness was possible still
~ Oscar Wilde
but I, once a lord of language, have no words in which to express my anguish and my shame...
~ Oscar Wilde
How sad it is! murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June.... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that--for that--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!
~ Oscar Wilde
I know he likes me. Of course I flatter him dreadfully. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said.
~ Oscar Wilde
The one charm of the past is that it is in the past.
~ Oscar Wilde
To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.
~ Oscar Wilde
The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If
~ Oscar Wilde
Él nunca se lo perdonó. Es una costumbre que tienen los aburridos
~ Oscar Wilde
Daughter of Sodom, come not near me! But cover thy face with a veil, and scatter ashes upon thine head, and get thee to the desert and seek out the Son of Man.
~ Oscar Wilde
Upon the walls of the lonely locked room where he had spent so much of his boyhood, he had hung with his own hands the terrible portrait whose changing features showed him the real degradation of his life, and in front of it had draped the purple-and-gold pall as a curtain.
~ Oscar Wilde
DziÅ› wiÄ™kszo?? ludzi umiera na postÄ™pujÄ…cy zdrowy rozsÄ…dek, a kiedy jest ju? zbyt pó?no na leczenie, odkrywajÄ…, ?e jedynÄ… rzeczÄ…, której siÄ™ nigdy nie ?aÅ'uje, sÄ… wÅ'asne bÅ'Ä™dy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Every Saint has a past. Every Sinner, has a future.
~ Oscar Wilde
Some one has killed herself for love of you. I wish that I had ever had such an experience.
~ Oscar Wilde
Bana bunu yok ettiÄŸini söylemiÅŸtin. Yanl?? söylemiÅŸim. O beni yok etti.
~ Oscar Wilde
The one charm of the past is that it is past.
~ Oscar Wilde
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
~ Ovid
My vengeance is my guilt
~ Ovid
ego pulveris hausti ostendens cumulum, quot haberet corpora pulvis, tot mihi natales contingere vana rogavi; excidit, ut peterem iuvenes quoque protinus annos.
~ Ovid
Què li podia retreure sinó haver-la estimada?
~ Ovid
I would mind it less, said Mrs. Westfall, if you looked a bit sorry or ashamed. The Virginian shook his head at her penitently. I'm tryin' to, he said
~ Owen Wister
Out of everything I've lost, I miss my mind the most!
~ Ozzy Osbourne
You can never take the violence back.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
That's exactly why I never liked King Arthur's Guinevere. She screws up (pardon the pun), sleeps with her husband's best friend, causes the fall of a kingdom, then she doesn't have the guts to make at least one man happy, so she joins a friggin nunnery and esacpes from all of her problems, leaving everyone around her in a slavering mess. How incredibly spineless.
~ P. C. Cast
I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones. - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)
~ P.C. Cast