Apology is only egotism wrong side out. [ O. W. Holmes ]

No sensible person ever made an apology. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter. [ Disraeli ]

Good purposes should be the directors of good actions, not the apology for bad. [ Proverb ]

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence. [ Langford ]

A very desperate habit; one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology. [ Holmes ]

Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counterproof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology. [ Abraham Coles ]