So bright the tear in Beauty's eye.
Love half regrets to kiss it dry. [ Byron ]

Regrets over the past should chasten the future. [ James Ellis ]

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence. [ L. E. Landon ]

The only conquests that cause no regrets, are those made over ignorance. [ Napoleon I ]

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [ Washington Irving ]

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Young, one is rich in all the future that he dreams; old, one is poor in all the past he regrets. [ Rochepedre ]

The life of a woman can be divided into three epochs: in the first she dreams of love, in the second she experiences it, in the third she regrets it. [ Saint-Prosper ]

There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [ Washington Irving ]