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Quotes About Apology

Do you know what STF is? I just ound out, he admitted, and I am so, so,sorry... He tried to look like he meant it, but I could tell that a little smile was peeking out at the corner of his mouth. This is so not funny. I have to wear a plastic suit of armor! Well, Marcus said, stifling a giggle, at least you have a date. And metallics are really in this year.
~ Lisa Papademetriou
She wanted to take those words back. But they were out, shattering in the air all around them, slicing them both.
~ Lisa Unger
It's such a female thing, to reflexively apologize for everything, for your very existence it sometimes seems.
~ Lisa Unger
Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. Are you all right? Yes. Sorry, he whispered. I'm just having an attack of limericks. Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip; only her deepening dimple betrayed her. Shhh, she said, with feeling.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm sorry, Lady Vorkosigan. We'll simply have to begin at the beginning. Please bear with me. Do I understand correctly you've had some sort of female trouble?" No, most of my troubles have been with males. Cordelia bit her tongue.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Sorry things got so messy," Miles apologized. "I realize how it must burn you to have your opponent blunder to victory. I'd have preferred something neater and more tactical myself, like Komarr, but I had to take the situation as I found it." Tung snorted. "Who wouldn't? Who do you think you are? Lord Vorkosigan?" Miles
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
~ Lois Wyse
And you can shove your apology. If it can come out of your damned mouth, then you can stand by it.
~ Lora Leigh
I am sorry, Fletcher," said Tandy, beating him to the apology. "But to explain the hows and whys of my earthly presence would be to explain something your brain is not capable of processing. No offense, of course." "No offense taken." "And please remember that I'm new to this, too. I am certain there will be many situations for which I have no explanation.
~ Lorna Landvik
Lucy hugged my uncle as she gushed about how wonderful it was to see him playing bridge again. Then she got all flustered and apologetic because she had used the word see. "It's all right, Lucy," Trapp assured her. "I'm aware you have the ability to see me, even if I can't see you.
~ Louis Sachar
Now I've offended him. Well, if it does him good, I'm glad, if it makes him hate me, I'm sorry, but it's true, and I can't take back a word of it -Amy
~ Louisa May Alcott
I hope when you are my age, you'll be able to say - as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. Our lives were a statement, not an apology.
~ Ronald Reagan
I'm sorry. I was just talking to the moon.
~ Ruth Ozeki
I'm sorry, Son / I'm just a poet. I hope this is enough. / If it isn't I'll burn down the house / and give you the ashes.
~ Sabrina Orah Mark
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.
~ Stephen Covey
you compensate for your mistakes in so gentlemanly a way, that one almost feels obliged to you for having committed them.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please. Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
~ Alice Sebold
Once words have been raged at someone, they can't be taken back.
~ Alison McGhee
MidÅ'n egy napon gyermeki duzzogásomban meggondolatlanul letéptem kishúgom fülét, anyám korholó szava - Meglepsz, fiam! - annyira szíven ütött, hogy egész éjszaka sírva, álmatlanul hánykolódtam ágyamban, majd anyám lábához vetettem magam, s így kértem bocsánatát: - Ne haragudj, édesanyám, hogy meglepetést okoztam neked!
~ Ambrose Bierce
APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offence.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I apologise if I bore you!' 'I accept your apology.' 'I was joking!' 'Ah. Your wit is so very sharp I hardly noticed I was cut.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.
~ Joe Abercrombie