Apology Quotes
Here you will find cute apology quotes and references that will tickle your funny bone and are more than useful to use in the right situation. An apology is often the perfect action to dissauade an on-going argument or to get another person to at least give you the benefit of the doubt when you have overplayed your hand.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. King Charles I
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
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
Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Oliver Wendell Holmes
An apology might help, but you can change your life without one. Robin Quivers
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology. Author Unknown
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. John Milton
Never apologize when you are right unless it is to your wife. Byron Pulsifer
When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. Dan Heist
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. H. G. Wells
And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened. Monica Lewinsky
Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. Author Unknown
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. Evelyn Underhill
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. Margaret Laurence
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. Isaac Friedmann
I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people. Louie Anderson
True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde
Correct means always having to say you’re sorry. Charles Osgood
Love is always having to say I’m sorry. Bob Irwin
An apology is a good way to have the last word. Author Unknown
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. Paul Boese
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. Edgar Watson Howe
You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it."
Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
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