Apologies Quotes: Friends, Love, Fights, Apologies, No Apologies, I’m sorry, Forgivness Quotes

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

Edgar Watson Howe

 

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

Red Auerbach

 

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

Margaret Laurence

 

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

Dan Heist

 

 

There's one sad truth in life I've found

While journeying east and west -

The only folks we really wound

Are those we love the best.

We flatter those we scarcely know,

We please the fleeting guest,

And deal full many a thoughtless blow

To those who love us best.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 

 

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Attributed to Baroness Orczy

 

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

Isaac Friedmann

 

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

Paul Boese

 

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

Chinese Proverb

 

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. 

William Blake

 

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Lois Wyse

 

True friends stab you in the front. 

Oscar Wilde

 

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

 

Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness.

John Wayne

 

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

Lynn Johnston

 

 

It is a good rule in life never to apologize.  The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. 

P.G. Wodehouse

  

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

King Charles I