regret Quotes

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

I apologize when I'm wrong.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.