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Quotes about Regret


My fond affection thou hast seen,
Then judge of my regret
To think more happy thou hadst been
If we had never met.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

A series of congratulatory regrets.

Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,--
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret.
Oh death in life, the days that are no more!

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

O last regret, regret can die!

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

The man who seeks one thing in life and but one
May hope to achieve it before life is done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.

Edward, Earl of Lytton Bulwer-Lytton Robert

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration--and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in Spring than in any other season. In the Spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours.

Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publius Syrus

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

I love him because he is a human soul, and I regret that his pure humanity, which issued from the hand of a God in whom he does not believe, has been so foully sullied by the devils of greed and power which have clearly taken possession of him. I would like to purge him of those devils, but, in his perversity, he is happy to be possessed.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

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.

US Vice President J. Danforth Quayle

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

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

Zachary Scott

The funny thing about regret is that it's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't.

Gibby Hanes

Accept everything about yourself—I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end— no apologies, no regrets.

Clark Moustakas

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

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

Helen Rowland

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

David Grayson

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ambrose Bierce

No Witnesses, No Regrets.

David Wilbanks

Who got it, did get it; and who left it, did regret it.

Algerian Proverb

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

J. Heller

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Virgil Thomson

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