Regret Quotes

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I deeply regret the damage which recent publicity has brought to the Labour Party. However, I reject any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing on my part.
Wendy Alexander

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.
David Carradine

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.
Henry Darrow

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Ogden Nash

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
Zachary Taylor

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller

Our performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt by that more than people realise
David Beckham

I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.
Richard Bacon

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
Armand Hammer

I regret my choice of words which do not accurately reflect the process of the James committee, with which I have been closely involved and totally support.
Howard Flight

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
Edgar Watson Howe

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
Quevedo

I've got a voice on each shoulder - one saying go home and stop being ridiculous, the other saying I might regret that decision. Golf and my body don't particularly go together, which is a bit of a bummer. I should have been England football captain
David Howell

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Zachary Scott

Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
Samuel Butler

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
John Lennon

I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show
Richard Bacon

Nature is cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel. When I send the flower of German youth into the steel hail of the war without feeling the slightest regret over the precious German blood that is being spilled, should I also not have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiply like vermin.
Adolf Hitler

I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
Dan Quayle

My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me!
John Barrymore

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
J P Getty

Speak when you're angry,
and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Lawrence J Peter

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)
Joachim Du Bellay

Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.
Shania Twain

Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence Peter

Ask me that again next month, when you're all in Dhaka and I'm in Rome, watching Chelsea playing Lazio! [Asked if he would regret retiring]
Alec Stewart

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.
Roland Gift

The only DIY haircut I would ever recommend is a crop woth the clippers: mess around with scissors and you'll regret it!
Charles Worthington

The difference between a moral man and a man of honour is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
Henry L Mencken

There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it [on Apprentice Series 2]
Alan Sugar

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Maxims
Publilius Syrus

The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets, are our conquests over ourselves.
Napoleon Bonaparte

On Kevin Spacey (L.A. Confidential): 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'
Russell Crowe

The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.
Jean Borotra

I will always remember my playing career with fond memories and though there may be the odd regret the main feeling is one of immense pride.
Tom Finney

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not
Lucille Ball

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he has the opportunity.
Helen Rowland

They always say it is better to have loved and lost and all that, so no I don't think I have any regrets, and I have always been there for all of my kids no matter what.
Mark Goddard

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
Queen Latifah

It was a counter-attack and I had to take him down. I don't regret it and I would do it again if I had to.
Thomas Gravesen

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.
Mary McCarthy

To regret the past is to forfeit the future.
Chinese Proverb

I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.
David Blunkett

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]
Jude Law

You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.
Harriet Doerr

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.
Charles Goodyear



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