Sorry Quotes

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
-H. G. Wells

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
-Isaac Friedmann

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

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
-Charles Osgood

Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
-Dale Carnegie

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
-Red Auerbach

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

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

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
-Isaac Friedmann

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

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
-Lynn Johnston

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

True friends stab you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
-Margaret Laurence

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
-Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960