Christopher Hitchens - John Arbuthnot Fisher - Penn & Teller TV - Charles I - P G Wodehouse - Monty Python’s Flying
Circus TV - Anthony Weiner - Benjamin Franklin - Rumpole of the Bailey TV - John Wayne - Rab C Nesbitt TV -
602. There’s no expiation for the generations of misery and suffering that religion has inflicted in this way and continues to inflict and I still haven’t heard enough apology for it. (Religion & Misery & Suffering & Apology) Christopher Hitchens
1,084. Never contradict
Never explain
Never apologise. (Life’s Like That & Contradiction & Explanation & Apologise) John Arbuthnot Fisher, letter to The Times 5th September 1919
13,048. Why did the Pope’s apology smell like bullshit? Because he himself organised the cover-up. (Catholicism & Apology & Abuse & Children & Paedophilia) Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s7e10: Vatican
30,838. Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. (England & Defence & Apology & Charles I) Charles I
63,508. It is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. P G Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs 1914
63,509. I am sure the head waiter will want to apologise to you personally. Monty Python’s Flying Circus s1e3, BBC 1969
102,127. I want to apologise humbly, deeply and sincerely about the fork … To me it’s like a mountain, a vast bowl of puss … ibid.
63,510. I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbours and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma. Anthony Weiner
63,511. Never ruin an apology with an excuse. (Apology & Excuse) Benjamin Franklin
78,934. What’s the use of spending the whole of your life in an attitude of perpetual apology? (Law & Apology) Rumpole of the Bailey s1e5: Rumpole and the Learned Friends, Rumpole to Guthrie
93,082. Never apologise, mister. It’s a sign of weakness. (Weakness & Apology) John Wayne
101,831. My client has even written you a full and frank apology for the crimes he has committed against society. (Court & Apology) Rab C Nesbitt s2e4: That’s Entertainment, brief to judge, BBC 1992