"Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift."
Margaret Lee Runbeck
13 FAMOUS QUOTES · APOLOGY
Read 13 famous apology quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift."
Margaret Lee Runbeck
"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."Benjamin Franklin
"An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything."
Lynn Johnston
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”Socrates
“I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.”Socrates
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”Socrates
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways: I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.”Socrates
“The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”Socrates
“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”Plato
"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 ruin an apology with an excuse.”Benjamin Franklin
“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Alexander Pope
“An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.”
Lynn Johnston