Top 76 Apologise Quotes
#1. You don't apologise,' (Deacon) said, pressing a kiss to my greasy head, unlocking best friend status.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#2. When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one's anger.
Anne Bronte
#3. I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.
Romola Garai
#4. John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism.
Richard Flanagan
#5. I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.
Martin McGuinness
#6. I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.
Saul Leiter
#7. Also, I apologise to any woman whose parents were cruel enough to name her Dickina.
L. H. Cosway
#8. It is better to apologise later than to ask for permission now. It is called self leadership
Janna Cachola
#9. I'd never understood whether the vogue for apologising is a sign of humility of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it.
Umberto Eco
#10. Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.
Edmund Burke
#11. I have learned the lesson the hard way and I hope it serves as a lesson to lots of other young people. I would also like to apologise to all loyal Blue Peter viewers.
Richard Bacon
#12. The prince put the dagger on the table. "Sorry."
Yorick bent forward and looked up into his eyes. "Don't forget our respective places here. I'm your clown. Your plaything. Your toy. Scarcely human. No need to apologise.
A.J. Hartley
#13. If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.
Diego Maradona
#15. It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.
Stephen Fry
#16. I have learned to accept my responsibility and to forgive myself first, then to apologise to anyone injured by my misreckoning.
Maya Angelou
#17. I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that 'House' was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of ... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable.
Hugh Laurie
#18. Never apologise for the questions you asked; apologise for the ones you didn't ask.' The
Jo Nesbo
#19. It was not his job at square leg to inform the batsman what I was doing. I did nothing for which I need to apologise.
Mike Gatting
#20. There's no need to apologise, Justine,' he said tautly. 'No need at all.'
'Good, because I didn't mean to. It's a habit with females, that's all, saying sorry all the time when there's absolutely no need. . .
Miranda Lee
#21. I apologise if you all know this, but the point is many, many people do not. Why else would they open a large play area for children, hang up a sign saying "Giant Kid's Playground", and then wonder why everyone says away from it? (Answer: everyone is scared of the Giant Kid.)
Lynne Truss
#22. I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life
Marlon Brando
#23. Look, I'm not going to apologise anymore ... Yes, I want to protect you. You're my wife. I'd fucking kill for you, Liv, and if that makes me a possessive bastard of a husband, then fine. That's what I am. I'm not going to change either. I love you too goddamned much.
Nina Lane
#24. If you even dream of beating me, you better wake up and apologise!
Muhamad Bin Ali
#25. Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious.
Tory Burch
#26. Finn gave a soft laugh. 'What's so funny?' 'I think you're the first person to actually apologise for inflicting pain. Usually it's someone's hobby.
Tabitha McGowan
#27. Life is so short. Grudges are a waste of time. Laugh when you can, apologise when you should, and trust God with what you cannot change.
Nicky Gumbel
#28. I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.
Joe Abercrombie
#30. We will not apologise for our way of life.
Barack Obama
#31. We'd like to apologise to the fans, the chairman, the staff and everyone connected to Newcastle
Lee Bowyer
#32. I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey's disabled uncle if I'm going to apologise for that.
Stella Young
#33. If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise.
Gerry Harvey
#34. You don't need to apologise, my friend,' smiled the Pandit. There is no "your god" or ";my god". All godliness comes from the same source. Just the manifestations are different. But I have a feeling that one day you will find a temple worth walking into just for prayer, not to admire its beauty.
Amish Tripathi
#35. People never fully confront their wrongdoing. They are all trying to push for their own ends, and they lack the strength to truly apologise for that. In my heart of hearts, I wondered if I was just the same.
Guy Mankowski
#36. Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.
Tony Judt
#37. And anyway, never, never apologise the morning after for what your hormones were telling you last night.
Paul Russell
#38. When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.
Curtis Stone
#39. The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after.
Dianna Hardy
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Steve Merrick
#41. For a spilt second we stare at each other. I feel an off sense of relief in making that statement. My breath is broken, his face is still. I want to apologise but the words won't come.
Instead I turn round and keep running home.
Dawn O'Porter
#42. Never waste time holding grudges for people who have wronged you.
Time waits for no one.
Apologise when you are wrong,
Express your love when you should,
Forgive the ones who wronged you,
And appreciate the one who makes efforts to see you smile.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#44. Most of the problems in life are because:
We misunderstand people's intentions,
We don't listen and jump to conclusions,
Then we are too proud to apologise and too stubborn to forgive.
Mouloud Benzadi
#45. I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.
Clive Barker
#46. I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
Thomas Keneally
#47. If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.
Nick Clegg
#48. And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.
Tony Blair
#49. Apology is pointless. Apologies are for when you forget something. Or bump into somebody. Apologies are for accidents. You can't apologise for something you chose to do. That's like apologising for being you.
Steven Camden
#50. We must apologise to the readers for returning with such insistence to the Robinson Crusoe and Friday story, which properly belongs to the nursery and not to the field of science - but how can we help it?
Friedrich Engels
#51. Mr Markham, the box marked "Sex" is not an invitation. Please amend the details and apologise to Mrs Partridge.
Jodi Taylor
#52. It is quite disappointing that people you love the most don't love what you love the most. They don't know you. Don't apologise for your dreams.
Enock Maregesi
#53. I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.
Anna Soubry
#54. When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.
Luis Suarez
#55. To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.
James D. Watson
#56. I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.
Sienna Miller
#57. When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.
Ayrton Senna
#58. If someone treats you bad and they apologise for it: Forgive them.
If someone treats you bad twice and they apologise for it: Drop them.
Steven Aitchison
#59. The day you apologise for who you are is the day you give another control over who you are.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#60. I don't want anybody, whether it's my grandchildren or any of our employees' grandchildren, to have to apologise for working for Ford Motor Company. In fact, I want the opposite. I want them to look and say, 'What a difference we made!'
William Clay Ford Jr.
#61. Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#62. I apologise for my behaviour lately. I haven't ... been myself."
Or she'd just been a part of herself that she usually kept on a tight, tight leash, he thought. But he said, "I understand."
And from the way her eyes softened, he knew that was all he'd ever needed to say.
Sarah J. Maas
#63. Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.
Harry Oppenheimer
#64. If we agree to say that those terrorists are indeed Muslim, I have no problem whatsoever to condemn their actions. I won't apologise though, or justify my point of view.
Tariq Ramadan
#65. I apologise for my friend's rudeness, he just learned how to to walk upright last year.
R.L. Mathewson
#66. I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.
Muhammad Ali
#68. Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.
Arsene Wenger
#69. Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#70. I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.
Alan Pardew
#71. Another reason why people take me seriously is because I never apologise even when - no, especially when I should,' he told her coolly. 'No pleases, thank yous or sorries - remember that and you might have that interesting year I was talking about.
Sarra Manning
#72. I humbly apologise for reality Television.
Cilla Black
#73. A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence
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#74. My approach in life is very clear: if there is an error, I tend to apologise and indeed most mornings I'll apologise in advance to my wife for the inevitable errors I'm going to make during the course of a day.
Greg Hunt
#75. I'm terribly sorry, Fergal."
"What for? Marrying him? I should think you would be, Angel.
Trisha Ashley
#76. President Mandela was never scared to admit his own mistakes and then almost jump at the opportunity of apologising and then to move on.
Zelda La Grange
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