Quotes About Apology

but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

I opened my mouth to say what a horrible accident, that I was an idiot, that I hadn't been looking where I was going and it was all my fault and blah-blah-blah, but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

As I expected, Paul immediately apologized for not asking me whether or not he could date Claire. He is nothing if not a good mimic of appropriate behaviors. Had we been in person rather than on the telephone, I am certain he would've dropped to bended knee as he asked for my permission. But he wasn't, so it was his voice that conveyed the respect and feeling. Conveyed.

I threw my arms around him. "I yearn only for you." Quinton gave a self-conscious shrug and an embarrassed laugh. "I feel the same way about you and I'm sorry I'm  .  .  . being an ass. Also, I suspect you just wanted to use 'yearn' in a sentence.

Je suis désolé ,' he said. You had to wonder about the French, how they could make a simple 'sorry' sound so extreme and forlorn.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

What men say: I'm sorry, honey. I was wrong. What men think: I'd love a Chipwich. I should go get one.

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

My mom was never afraid to say, 'I'm sorry. I screwed up.' I feel like that's an important lesson.

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.