Apology Quotes

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

Samuel Butler, The Note - Books of Samuel Butler (1912)

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton

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

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.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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 Butle

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

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

King Charles I, of England

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Kimberly Johnson