Quotes about Regret
And now, I am dying beyond my means.
— Oscar Wilde
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, 'What will you have, sir?' And I said, 'A glass of hemlock.'
— Ernest Hemingway
If he could have reached it, he'd have kicked his own backside.
— Mary Connealy
You propose marriage with the same breath you tell me you're ashamed of me.
— Mary Connealy
expelled from the garden.
— NT Wright
I did mind and it did matter, otherwise there wouldn't be anything to forgive at all
— NT Wright
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
— Nelson Mandela
I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.
— Nelson Mandela
I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.
— Olga Tokarczuk
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable
— Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
— Oscar Wilde