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Quotes About Apology

We deeply regret and are very sorry that some of our customers' payment cards were used fraudulently after making purchases at our stores.
~ Karen Katz
Just bring some roses, then. Tell her you were wrong. But don't go into all sorts of promises about how you'll never do it again. Instead, tell her you've been thinking about how she must have felt when she saw that other girl hugging you. That way you can start her talking about her feelings. Then you've got to listen, hard. Let her know that her feelings are important to you. That's all she wanted from you in the first place.
~ Tim Tharp
Hey, you're here," I say, catching my breath. "Sorry I'm late." "That's all right," she says, and I have to wonder how many times she said that to the people who screwed her over somehow. "No," I say. "It's not all right. But I couldn't help it.
~ Tim Tharp
4. Si respondes, no te disculpes en exceso.
~ Timothy Ferriss
4—If you respond, don't over-apologize.
~ Timothy Ferriss
After we ate our heaping slice of humble pie, we asked the missus if she could at least serve it up a la mode next time.
~ Timothy Schaffert
There's a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize.
~ Alec Baldwin
This apology is not just to Bernie Sanders. It is to donors. It is to anyone and everyone that clearly we offended. And the e-mails that were revealed that were hacked.
~ Donna Brazile
I apologize to those of you I offended for coming out against the Ex-Im Bank. I'm not changing my mind on it, but I just wanted to let you know I apologize for that.
~ Bill Flores
I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.
~ Jerome Corsi
I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
~ Vanity
To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
~ Ambrose Bierce
For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
~ Al Franken
I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.
~ Mehdi Hasan
I am determined to offer an apology with my death.
~ Hideki Tojo
Discúlpeme, no le había reconocido: he cambiado mucho.
~ Oscar Wilde
He tried to formulate the words that might make her understand—might make her forgive him.
~ P.C. Cast
I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Did you ever tread on your partner's dress at a dance - I'm speaking now of the days when women wore dresses long enough to be trodden on - and hear it rip and see her smile at you like an angel and say, Please don't apologise. It's nothing, and then suddenly meet her clear blue eyes and feel as if you had stepped on the teeth of a rake and had the handle jump up and hit you in the face?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Science, with a thousand triumphs to her credit, has not yet succeeded in discovering the correct reply for a young man to make who finds himself in the appalling position of being apologized to by a pretty girl.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
if you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into the luny-bin, you simply explain that, when you said you were a teapot, it was just your Artistic Temperament, and they apologise and go away.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she's tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life.
~ Pat Conroy
I'm sorry your bad dream died, I said as I left her and walked toward the gate. And I'm sorry I ever met you, Annie Kate.
~ Pat Conroy
I was being cynical. I'm sorry. It's a family habit I've fallen prey to.
~ Pat Conroy