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Quotes About Apology

Doctor: Nyssa, we can't get you out of there just yet. I'm sorry. Nyssa: I know. Doctor: The TARDIS has gone missing. I'm sorry, I have to concentrate- Nyssa: I know, Doctor. You don't have to keep saying you're sorry. Doctor: We'll come for you. When all of this is over we'll follow the comet and get you back. Nyssa: You once said much the same thing to somebody else.
~ Eddie Robson
Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.
~ Edmund Burke
Parece que la quiero, Ofelia. Mil perdones, pero me
~ Eduardo Sacheri
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
If you mess up, 'fess up.
~ Anonymous
The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology.
~ Anonymous
An apology is a good way to have the last word.
~ Anonymous
The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth. So it has been an honour to serve it. I give my thanks to you, the British people, for the times that I have succeeded, and my apologies to you for the times I have fallen short. But good luck.
~ Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
I wondered now if I had behaved badly and, worse still, if I had broken something that was precious to me.
~ Anthony Horowitz
People can forgive each other.
~ Jo Brand
In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
~ J. L. Austin
Estás enojado conmigo? (Joséphine) - ¿Debería estarlo? (Alamán) - Si. Te traté muy fríamente cuando llegué. - Muy fríamente. - Discúlpame. - ¿Por qué lo hiciste? - Ya te lo dije ayer, en casa. Porque tengo miedo de que me lastimes. - Ya te lo dije ayer, en tu casa: jamás te lastimaría. - Eso dicen todos. - Yo no soy todos.
~ Florencia Bonelli
I was thinking, she said. Beg my pardon immediately, said Miss Minchin. I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude, said Sara; but I won't beg your pardon for thinking.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Le pido perdón por haberme reído, si lo considera una ofensa -replicó por fin-; pero no me disculparé por pensar.»
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Then I wanted to take a bath so I ran water into the big sunken tub and poured in some bath salts and lit the candles in the square glass holders around the rim of the tub. There were big windows overlooking the garden. I opened them and smelled the jasmine and the wet earth. There was a little warm breeze and the garden tinkled and chimed like stars falling. I called you. I wanted a refill on my wine. I wanted to give you the jasmine and the wind chime stars. I'm sorry.
~ Francesca Lia Block
She would be all out of breath and apologize fervently for being late, as though her lateness depended on such a rare and extenuating matrix of once-in-a-lifetime circumstances that it could never possibly happen again. And the next time she would be just as late.
~ Francine Pascal
Otra vez me vino a los labios una especie de disculpa. Ante las demostraciones de suficiencia absoluta casi siempre me rindo, anonadado.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
I'm sorry, We were Young, I think about--and Regret--it every Day.
~ Frank Warren
Sharon: innocent freckle-faced red-haired good Sharon : I was a vicious, vengeful compulsive BRUTE to you at school. 30+ years on-Now I'm very sorry
~ Frank Warren
Your room was slightly disturbed today, and in a sense it was my fault; it was done by strangers and against my will, and yet, as I say, it was my fault; that's why I wanted to ask your pardon for.
~ Franz Kafka
Leading up to this fight Julian Williams talked, and I held it in. I did what I had to do to become the champion of the world and I deserve my respect. He disrespected me all the way up to the fight. I said I don't want your congratulations, I want your apology. I don't care what they say, I knocked him out.
~ Jermall Charlo
I don't drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.
~ Angie Dickinson
I want to say sorry for abusing my position as an 'X Factor' winner because I owe everything to this thing.
~ James Arthur
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
~ Hamza Yusuf