Very Sorry Quotes

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
- Jane Austen

I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists
- Oscar Wilde

LADY CHILTERN: I never change.
MRS. CHEVELEY: (elevating her eyebrows) Then life has taught you nothing?
LADY CHILTERN: It has taught me that a person who has once been guilty of a dishonest and dishonorable action may be guilty of it a second time, and should be shunned.
MRS. CHEVELEY: Whould that rule apply to everyone?
LADY CHILTERN: Yes, to everyone, without exception.
MRS. CHEVELEY: Then I am sorry for you, Gertrude, very sorry for you.
- Oscar Wilde

Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post.
- Lord Charles Beresford

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
- Sitting Bull

Oh, a very sorry people, yes,
Did I find here.
Oh, they had no music,
And they had no beer.
And, oh, everywhere
Where they tried to perch
Belonged to Castle Sugar, Incorporated,
Or the Catholic church.
- Kurt Vonnegut

But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,' said he [Holmes], 'but it is a common lot this morning. Mrs Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.
- Mary Shelley

I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.
- Ian Fleming

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
- Leo Tolstoy

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
- W S Gilbert

Sorry," he said, not sounding very sorry at all. "I... well, nevermind."
"Nevermind?" I couldn't help but sneer. "You just broke into my uncle's lighthouse. Don't you tell me to nevermind.
- Karina Halle

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
- Karl Philipp Moritz

Well, damme, William, I am sorry: I am very sorry, indeed I am. But injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends.
- Patrick O Brian

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.
- Condoleezza Rice

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.
- Michael Richards

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.
- Kim Y Sam

I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.
- Martha Stout

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.
- Norman Wisdom