Sorry Quotes

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
King Charles I

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.
Dan Heist

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
~Mignon McLaughlin

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
G. K. Chesterton

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Benjamin Franklin

An apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Tyron Edwards

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D. H. Lawrence

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
Isaac Friedmann

I am sorry so sorry, I wish I could go back and change this.
Thomas Williams

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
~Chinese Proverb

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
~William Blake

Sometimes the words just come out wrong so sorry that I upset you!
Unknown

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
Benjamin Disraeli

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.
William James

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
Edgar Watson Howe

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Plato

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~Paul Boese

An apology is a good way to have the last word.
Jose

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler

Friends are God's apology for relations..
Hugh Kingsmill

The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology.
Unknown

Apologizing does not always mean that you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.
Unknown

How do I say the words, I m sorry when I know that words are not enough? And how can I ask you to forgive me when I know I can't forgive myself?
Unknown

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
Archibald Alexander

I'm not perfect I make mistakes I hurt people. But when I say sorry I mean it.
Unknown

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~Author Unknown

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

Some people accidentally walk on your feet and apologize, while others walk all over your heart and don’t even realize.
- Margaret Roze

I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they're sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.
Unknown