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Quotes About Apology

Aptall?k kötülüÄŸün özrü olamaz.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Then he was done. He pulled away, rolled onto his back. "I'm sorry," he said. "You're welcome," she said. She believed in answering what people meant, not what they said.
~ Orson Scott Card
If you could make them feel as you can make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you.
~ Orson Scott Card
Ender, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know how it feels. I'm sorry, I'm your brother. I love you.
~ Orson Scott Card
Good, that's settled then,' said Danny. 'Since I'm the idiot who set this all in motion by playing around with the rope-climb in a high school gym, I apologize right now for everything that goes wrong with this. With any luck, I'm the only one who gets zapped in the outself, and everything else goes on like normal for the rest of you. But if terrible things happen, please remember that I meant well, and that I did my best. That is what I promise you
~ Orson Scott Card
And they apologized again. Back to business. Back to respect. And Ender realized that in their laughter, in their friendship, it had not occurred to them that he could have been included.
~ Orson Scott Card
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
~ Oscar Wilde
The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
~ Oscar Wilde
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
~ Oscar Wilde
Sorry, he apologized. I didn't mean to inflict my rantings on you, even though we are destined to spend the rest of our lives together. I don't suppose you fave any thought to where we should be married while I was in with that lot of fools, did you? Yes, she said. I decided we shouldn't, that wartime attachments are a bad idea. Particularly if you're going to be lassoing flying bombs.
~ Connie Willis
My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you're sorry and get on with it.
~ Cormac MacCarthy
My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you're sorry and get on with it. Don't haul stuff around with you.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am? I'd very little to do with it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am?
~ Cormac McCarthy
but Tact and Sensitivity were not Gobber's strong points, and he took the first five minutes to come up with Hiccup copped it. SORRY, and the spent the second five minutes tearing his beard out.
~ Cressida Cowell
I's the look-out! I's the look-out! AAAAAAGHHHH! There's a jagular! There's a jagular! Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Ohhhh Ã¢â'¬Â¦ No, sorrys, my mistake, is a treetrunk. SORRYS, everybody Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Cressida Cowell
As they sat, Kathy de Bourgh smiled and said, "Now that we've both apologized within the first thirty seconds of our conversation about women and power, shall we begin?
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Only part you have to apologize for is getting me all horned up and then passing out, but I'll take a rain check
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
I don't know what she told you, but I never was sorry I'd married her or loved her because of you. You always made a difference, made a real difference, from the very beginning. I always knew that, inside me, but I didn't bother to learn how to show you. I'm sorry, Jeff, I should have taken the trouble.
~ Cynthia Voigt
I'm sorry I hurt your hand...with my face. -Bobby Pendragon
~ D.J. MacHale
Suddenly, Rachel dropped the toy and the girls stared at each other, horrified. We never argue! said Kirsty, her voice trembling a little. What's wrong? It must be because of the missing tiara, said Rachel. Even we can't play well together! I'm sorry, said Kirsty. I didn't mean to argue with you. I didn't either, said Rachel. I'm sorry, too.
~ Daisy Meadows
So, because I had apologized and sympathized with her point of view, she began apologizing and sympathizing with my point of view. I had the satisfaction of controlling my temper, the satisfaction of returning kindness for an insult. I got infinitely more real fun out of making her like me than I could ever have gotten out of telling her to go and take a jump in the Schuylkill River.
~ Dale Carnegie
there was no shorthand for I'm sorry. You were obliged to speak those two words.
~ Wally Lamb
I'm sorry. Is that too harsh an observation for you? Does that sound too much like the Truth? Fuck you. If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog's cock about Truth, this wouldn't be happening.
~ Warren Ellis